August 04: India is all set to host the G-20 Summit on September 9 and 10 at the newly constructed Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre in Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. 

Russian President, Vladimir Putin is not attending the G-20 Summit because of his "busy schedule" as per the Russian government Spokesperson.

US President, Joe Biden has said that he is looking forward to visiting India for the G-20 summit to be held next week. However, after learning that Chinese President Xi Jinping will not come to India, he is also disappointed.

On the eve of India hosting the G20 summit in New Delhi, China released a so-called “standard map” amalgamating parts of eastern Ladakh as per the rejected 1959 line and Arunachal Pradesh in the Middle Kingdom apart from Taiwan and the South China Sea.

By releasing the so-called standard map of China, Beijing wants to teach India a lesson for rejecting normalization of ties until border issues are sorted out.

This cartographic expansion by Beijing duly amplified by Chinese propaganda through social media was immediately rebutted and rejected by the Modi government as Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and parts of Aksai Chin were occupied by Mao’s China in the 1950s even before the disastrous 1962 war. While India was signing the Panchsheel Agreement in 1954, China was building a highway linking occupied Tibet with occupied Sinkiang (called Xinjiang) through Aksai Chin with the then government as per the facts.

China releases the standard map every year but it is the first time that India has lodged a serious protest with Beijing, rejecting the territorial claims of the Middle Kingdom.