The Foreign Ministry of China announced on Thursday that Premier Li Qiang will represent China at the upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, confirming that communist dictator Xi Jinping is skipping the event.

The G20, which brings together the world’s largest economies, is scheduled to begin on November 21. Xi is the fifth head of state to decline attendance at press time, along with American President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, and Argentine President Javier Milei. Trump personally announced he would not attend in protest of the ongoing massacres of Afrikaners in the country, while Putin is not attending due to the outstanding International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant in his name for war crimes in Ukraine. T

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