Fractured East-West relations over Russia's war in Ukraine and increasing concerns about China's global aspirations are set to dominate what is expected to be a highly contentious meeting of foreign ministers from the world's largest industrialized and developing nations this week in India.
The increasingly bitter rift between the United States and its allies on one side and Russia and China on the other appears likely to widen further as top diplomats from the Group of 20 gather in the Indian capital on Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and their Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov will all be in attendance and battling for support from non-aligned members of the group.
A hastily arranged meeting between Blinken and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference two weeks ago yielded no tangible results. And recently renewed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic could have been the result of a Chinese lab leak have made the situation worse.
In the meantime, Moscow has been unrelenting in pushing its view that the West, led by the U.S., is trying to destroy Russia. "We are not trying to turn this G20 into a criticism of Russia," he told The Associated Press, adding that the world is already aware of the Western position "with regards to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine."
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