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For the First Time, Xi Is Missing a China-Backed BRICS Summit. Why? | News Channel 3-12

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By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A summit of leaders from the BRICS group of major emerging economies kicks off in Brazil Sunday – but without the top leader of its most powerful member. For the first time in more than one decade of rule, Chinese leader Xi Jinping – who has made BRICS a centerpiece of his push to reshape the global balance of power – will not attend the annual leaders’ gathering. Xi’s absence from the two-day summit in …

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If the absence of the head of the Russian state tends to reduce the mediation of the meeting, the possible non-participation of Xi Jinping may also represent a loss of importance to the summit.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has disappeared from the media and rarely appears in public. He will not attend the upcoming BRICS summit. Rumors of a quiet coup have been circulating for weeks. Intelligence sources say that the real control in China is now held by General Zhang Yuxia and senior figures associated with Hu Jintao, whom Xi once removed from power. Some speculation suggests that the stage may be set for Wang Yang, a more consensual an…

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