China has officially confirmed that Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, will be absent from the BRICS summit to be held in Brazil tomorrow and the next day, for the first time since he took office.
Beijing said, without specifying the reason, that Premier Li Keqiang would attend the summit as "Xi's representative."
A former senior Chinese official told NTD News that Xi considers the BRICS summit an important arena, and has never been absent from it since 2013. The official linked Xi's absence to the possibility of health problems.
Meanwhile, Mike Flynn, a retired US general who was Trump's national security adviser during his first term, recently posted on X a call for the Trump administration to monitor the power shifts currently taking place within the Chinese regime.