India Plays Down Xi and Putin’s Absence at G-20 Leaders Summit

Vladimir Putin, left, and Xi Jinping in 2022.

Photographer: Sergei Bobylyov/AFP/Getty Images

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India’s top diplomat S. Jaishankar said the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of Twenty summit would not detract from its importance.