{"id":15638,"date":"2025-11-19T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/chinese-president-will-not-attend-g20-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:48","slug":"chinese-president-will-not-attend-g20-summit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/chinese-president-will-not-attend-g20-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President will not attend G20 Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Chinese President Xi Jinping will not join the G20 Summit in South Africa (SA) this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The experts are saying this is due to him prioritising domestic issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\nA pattern emerging over the past year of him sending delegates instead.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s second highest ranked official Premier Li\u00a0Qiang\u00a0is representing China at the\u00a0G20\u00a0in Johannesburg , Gauteng Province.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has not given an official reason as to whyJingping is not attending, but experts point to his age, he is in his 70&#8217;s, as one factor why he has not travelled as much compared with before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15639,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-15638","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"The G20 Summit","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19790,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15638\/revisions\/19790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}