Chinese President Xi Jinping would not be in attendance at the high-stakes BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The news of Xi's absence from the bloc's upcoming meeting comes amid reports that the member ...

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But the summit's political punch will be depleted by the absence of China's Xi Jinping, who is skipping the annual meeting for the first time in his 12 years as president.