Sushant Singh
When Narendra Modi won a third term as India’s prime minister last month, he was congratulated by all the major global leaders. Except one. Xi Jinping, China’s president and general secretary of the Communist Party, did not send a congratulatory message to the Indian leader he has met more than 20 times in the past decade. In 2019, Xi was among the first to publicly congratulate Modi when he was reelected as prime minister. This year, Xi has conveyed his regards to Shehbaz Sharif in Pakistan and Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh when they became prime ministers. It was Chinese Premier Li Qiang who sent a brief congratulatory message to Modi a week later, further underscoring the absence of any felicitous missive from Xi.
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