Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s words to the opening of the three-day summit in South Africa were combative and had one particular other country in mind.
President Xi Jinping failed to attend a meeting in South Africa where he was expected to deliver a speech defending China’s economy and its support for emerging markets, as fears mount that the Asian nation’s struggles could cause global turbulence.
The speech also brought an air of confrontation to the Johannesburg summit that “some country, obsessed with maintaining its hegemony, has gone out of its way to cripple the emerging markets and developing countries”. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his opening remarks at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. Some 20 nations are said to be interested in joining the group.Xi’s speech would have been his first public remarks delivered abroad this year. Prior to South Africa, the Chinese leader had spent just two days overseas in 2023, when he visited Russia.
The West’s attempts to punish and isolate Russia financially for sending troops into Ukraine were an “illegitimate sanctions practice and illegal freezing of assets of sovereign states, which essentially amounts to them trampling upon all the basic norms and rules of free trade,” the Russian leader asserted.
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