[EpochTimesOctober292021](Epoch Times reporter Ning Haizhong reported) The sixteenth summit of the Group of Twenty (G20) leaders will be held in Rome from Saturday to Sunday (30 to 31) . Xi Jinping will participate by video in Beijing and give a speech. This will be the first time a Chinese Communist Party leader has missed the G20 summit.
According to the spokesperson of the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbin, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the meeting in Rome as Xi Jinping’s special representative.
As the host, Italian Prime Minister Draghi said earlier that the G20 Leaders Summit will focus on the support measures needed to deal with climate change, the new crown virus (Chinese Communist Party virus) and the global recovery after the epidemic.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (Jake Sullivan) said on Tuesday (October 26) that Xi Jinping will not personally attend the G20 summit in Rome, Italy on October 30. This will be the first time a Chinese Communist Party leader has missed the G20 summit.
At the beginning of this month, Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter as revealing that one of the reasons Xi Jinping did not plan to go to Rome was related to the epidemic prevention policy, saying that he would need to be isolated when returning home.
The Voice of America reported on the 29th that Xi Jinping was worried about being “attacked and disrespected.”
Paola Subacchi, a professor of international economics at the Queen Mary Global Policy Institute at the University of London, said in an interview with the Voice of America that Xi Jinping’s absence from the summit, although not directly confronting the West, also conveyed a message, that That is, he already feels “uncomfortable” in the same room with Western leaders.
Xi Jinping has not gone abroad for more than 600 days, and he is the longest suspended visitor among G20 leaders.
In addition, the United Nations Climate Conference will be held in Glasgow from Sunday. The G20 summit is considered to “set the tone” for the climate summit.
The Chinese government has not officially announced that Xi Jinping will be absent from the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, but diplomats and environmentalists believe that Xi Jinping cannot go in person.
China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Xi Jinping may not attend the climate summit, which may cause the outside world to pay attention to or influence the outcome of the summit. Free Asia reported that he was unable to make more commitments to reduce emissions and escaped.
Tan Yaonan, chairman of the Cross-Strait Policy Association and former visiting researcher at the Brookings Institution, told Free Asia that Xi Jinping’s power consolidation and personnel adjustments are in a critical period near the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, far more important than the climate card.
The Wall Street Journal reported that from the perspective of technical and political resistance, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party are currently unable to accelerate the pace of carbon reduction, and achieving a new carbon neutral goal is almost tantamount to rebuilding the economic structure.
On September 22, 2020, Xi Jinping promised at the United Nations General Assembly: China’s carbon dioxide emissions will strive to reach the peak before 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
However, after the authorities promoted dual control of energy consumption, in September this year, coal shortages and power outages in some places followed. The sudden power shortage has spread to more than 20 provinces and cities in China, seriously affecting business operations and people’s lives.
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