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The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, said on August 31 that he hopes that the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, will participate in the summit meeting of the leaders of the group of 20 most industrialized countries (G20).
Reuters news agency reported that Xi is not expected to attend the summit, thus eliminating the possibility that the leaders of the US and China will meet this year.
The summit in India had been seen as a venue for a possible meeting between them since Biden has confirmed attendance, at a time when the two superpowers are trying to stabilize relations soured by trade and geopolitical tensions, REL reports.
Xi last met with Biden on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia last November.
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has already said that he will not travel to New Delhi and instead will send the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.
China's president is also not expected to attend next week's summit and will send Premier Li Qiang instead, according to a statement by an EU official carried by the AFP news agency.
"My last information... was that Xi had no intention of traveling, the prime minister would come," the European official is reported to have told reporters in Brussels ahead of the September 9-10 summit in New Delhi.
Xi and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi held rare talks with each other at the BRICS summit in South Africa last week, but tensions remain high between the Asian giants.
On August 29, India hit back at China after an official map released by Beijing appeared to claim a large swath of land in the Himalayas, where Delhi claims sovereignty.
European officials hope the G20 summit in New Delhi will serve as an opportunity to lobby BRICS powers such as India and China to agree to tougher criticism of fellow member Russia, following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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