🇧🇷❌ 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping Skips BRICS Summit in Brazil, SCMP Reports
➡️No Show: Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro in July, with Prime Minister Li Qiang leading the delegation instead.
➡️Reason Cited: Beijing says Xi’s recent meetings with Brazilian President Lula da Silva at G20 and in Beijing make the trip unnecessary.
➡️Silence from China: Chinese officials have not confirmed, with the Foreign Ministry saying details will come “in due course.”

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🇨🇳⁉️🇧🇷 — 🌎 Chinese President Xi Jinping cancels his trip to Brazil for the BRICS summit and sends the Prime Minister in his place. If confirmed, this will mark the first time Xi has missed a BRICS summit

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) has not officially confirmed his absence, but according to sources, China’s ambassador to Brazil, Zhu Qingqiao, visited the Presidential Palace to communicate the likely cancellation.

➡️ Xi Jinping has attended all previous editions, including the virtual summits held during the pandemic. In 2023, in South Africa, he left the country shortly before his speech but still met with other leaders. Xi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) met twice in recent months: in November, during the G20 in Rio, and in May, at the China–CELAC Summit in Beijing.

🇮🇷 His absence comes amid the ongoing crisis between Israel and Iran. The two nations announced a ceasefire. Iran joined BRICS in 2024. In a statement, BRICS expressed “deep concern” over the bombings of Iranian nuclear facilities “of a peaceful nature.”

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🇹🇭🪖📝 — The Thailand Defense Ministry and the Thai Army Chief of Staff held an emergency meeting.

The council has prepared emergency response plans to prepare for a possible climbing on the border between Thailand and Cambodia.

🇮🇷⚰️📝 — Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force lost 35 people during the the 12-day war with Israel.

They were mostly killed during the IAF DEAD operations in the first days of the war.

The list includes two brigadier generals.