Xi not attending the G20 will probably cause other leaders not to attend. It will be like the 737 Max 8. Usually it's the FAA that has to announce any grounding of any aircraft due to flaws before the world follows. This time for the first time China grounded the 737 Max 8 first and then the world followed. I'll tell you a lot people behind the scenes were furious that it happened like that. The notorious suspects want Xi to go to the G20 so they show a fake front of unity where they want to get that Trump-like photo of Xi with his arms crossed sitting in a chair while all them are berating surrounding him. Biden is into theatrics so I wouldn't be surprised if that was a goal. Frankly I hope Xi doesn't meet with Biden all his term in office if he's playing these games because it means Biden doesn't take it seriously and this is all for domestic politics. So why bother? It doesn't help China. Waiting until the G20 is a cover so this doesn't look like a meeting Biden wanted that he had to beg to China to meet. Biden wanted to show the world that Xi would be the "last" leader he'd meet with to convey to everyone that China wasn't important to the world. He thought Xi would be begging for a meeting with him by now because Kurt Campbell is telling him China is the one that would be doing that right now and so far any attempts to setup a meeting by the US has been received cold. You'd figure why does Campbell have a job when he's been so wrong in two Presidential administrations now? It's because like I've said, if you want to predict what path the US takes, it will always be the one that perpetuates white supremacists beliefs. They want to still believe in it even after it fails. That's job security.