'Xi suffers stroke during BRICS summit'
Speculation over Chinese President Xi Jinping's health has surfaced following claims by Chinese dissident Wanjun Xie that Xi fainted during the BRICS summit in New Delhi and later suffered a severe ischaemic stroke. Xie made the claims in a series of posts on X, but there has been no official confirmation from Beijing or New Delhi that Xi fainted, suffered a stroke or was hospitalized. One of the posts received a community note on X flagging the claim as inconsistent with facts.
Brief written by urgent.news from The Economic Times's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
