US EditionFor the First Time, Xi Is Missing a China-Backed BRICS Summit. Why?
STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, JUL 5 – Xi Jinping's absence marks the first in over a decade as China faces economic challenges and rising China-India tensions, with BRICS now including nine new members, officials said.
- The 17th BRICS Summit took place on Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, without attendance from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
- Xi Jinping skipped the summit citing a scheduling conflict and to focus on China's economic challenges amid trade frictions with the US, while Putin attended virtually due to an ICC arrest warrant.
- BRICS has recently grown to 11 members by adding several countries from across different regions, including nations in the Middle East and Africa, which has led to greater ideological fragmentation and heightened tensions within the group.
- Brazil and Indonesia have introduced trade barriers targeting China in response to concerns over excess industrial production and unfair pricing practices, while escalating tensions between China and India, along with Modi’s anticipated prominent role, may have influenced Xi’s decision to skip the event.
- Xi's absence highlights deeper fractures in BRICS, challenging its coherence as a united alternative to Western-led groups and suggesting a recalibration of China's global engagement strategy.
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China's Xi Jinping To Miss BRICS Summit For First Time. Here's Why
The 17th BRICS Summit kicked off on Sunday in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, bringing together leaders from major emerging economies--but without the attendance of one of the top leaders of one of its most powerful members.
On Sunday, in Brazil, the summit of the leaders of the BRICS group, formed of the major emerging economies, but without its most powerful member's leader, CNN writes in an analysis of Xi Jinping's absence from the event.
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