“ Xi Jinping a No Show at BRICS” **************************************
Right. He went to South Africa on a tourist visa to go on a Jeep Safari.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/china/china-xi-skips-brics-business-forum-speech-intl-hnk/index.html#:~:text=No%20one%20is%20saying%20why&text=Chinese%20leader%20Xi%20Jinping%20on,name%20that%20decried%20US%20hegemony.
China’s Xi unexpectedly skipped a key BRICS event. No one is saying why