G20 summit: US, India and allies unveil initiatives as Xi and Putin keep distance
The United States and host India made the most of Chinese President Xi Jinping's absence from the Group of 20 meeting on Saturday in New Delhi, India. They promoted promoting US-led multilateral lending to counter China's infrastructure diplomacy, went on a charm offensive with developing nations and inserted some minimal language into the communique that indirectly condemned Chinese ally Russia over its Ukraine invasion. The G20, which includes China and Russia and accounts for 85 per cent of g