According to a news report, Premier Li Qiang from China will attend the G20 conference in New Delhi instead of President Xi Jinping from China.

After attending the 43rd ASEAN conference in Jakarta from September 5-7, Chinese Premier Li Qiang will go immediately to New Delhi, according to the report.

Following his attendance at the 43rd ASEAN conference in Jakarta from September 5-7, Chinese Premier Li Qiang will take a direct flight to New Delhi.  The article cited reliable sources when it stated that the VVIP aircraft's flight plans had been submitted, despite the Ministry of External Affairs still needing to receive official notification.

Xi and US President Joe Biden may meet at the India summit, according to a Reuters story, as the two heavyweights look to mend relations that have been strained by trade and geopolitical threats.

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has already announced that he will send Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister, to the G20 Summit in place of a trip to New Delhi.

Recently, China produced a map of the Communist country and claimed the entirety of Arunachal Pradesh as well as portions of Aksai Chin as part of its cartographic expansion, which led India to object vehemently.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) must remove its soldiers from Aksai Chin, and Indian Army patrolling rights must be reinstated in the Depsang Bulge and at CNN junction in Demchok, the report states. This reaction has angered the Chinese president.

Since taking office as president in 2013, Xi has participated in all previous in-person G20 conferences with the exception of the Covid pandemic in 2021, when he joined via video connection.

The two men last spoke when the Chinese president attended the G20 conference in Bali, Indonesia, in November.

Prior to the conference, several G20 ministerial meetings were tense because China and Russia banded together to block unified declarations that contained passages denouncing Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine last year.