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Yep! No surprise to be perfectly honest about it. There have been a number of "warning signs" months n months ago that the organisers of this event were not fully focused on the main objective of this whole exercise - climate change and everyone uniting to tackle it effectively as not many more opportunities like this remaining - time running out fast! Re that para in the Guardian about the Chinese President's absence, Xi Jinping has literally been locked away from any meetings like this one for about the last two years. So it's no surprise he's not attending this one.