President Xi, a Week Before White House Summit, May Be Showing the Strain of Diplomacy

President Xi Jinping’s frenetic schedule of international summitry may be wearing him down. That’s one possibility for why he skipped a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent parley in New Delhi of leaders from the 11 BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa plus six others — at which he pressed for power and prestige across Asia and the Middle East.