Xi Jinping

The two leaders held a nearly an hour-long meeting, marking the Prime Minister's first visit to China in seven years. Notably, this was PM Modi's first meeting with Xi in about 10 months, the last being in Russia during the BRICS summit in October 2024.

PM Modi in China Live Updates: The SCO summit, being held on August 31 and September 1, will see PM Modi hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

PM Modi’s scheduled meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday has gained added importance amid Washington’s escalating tariff war that has rattled major economies worldwide

A Modi-Xi-Putin handshake, backed by rhetorical condemnation of unilateral tariffs, will send a message louder than any communique. It will tell the world that Trump’s policies are isolating the US and pushing others into each other’s arms.

Although PM Modi is set to hold bilateral meetings with multiple leaders in China, his meeting with President Xi is expected to be the most closely watched, drawing global interest

There was no “secret diplomacy” between the two countries, only “normal communication and interaction,” it said.

Xi expressed concern about any deal between India and the United States that could “harm China’s interests” and even named a provincial official who would steer Beijing’s efforts, the report said.

The Tianjin summit will be about optics as much as policy. A handshake between Modi and Xi, with Putin by their side, would crystallise the very multipolar world Trump rails against.

The summit will feature PM Modi's first visit to China in more than seven years as the two neighbours work on further defusing tensions roiled by deadly border clashes in 2020

Speaking in the Oval Office ahead of a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump observed that Washington’s position was stronger than Beijing’s in the ongoing trade dispute

New Delhi also cannot ignore the optics: Wang Yi visiting Kabul after a stop in New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Modi, and then flying on to Islamabad for three days of talks with Pakistan’s deputy prime minister.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, on Wednesday to observe the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region by Beijing, state media reported.

After years of confrontation following the Galwan clashes of 2020, both India and China appear willing to reopen channels of political and cultural engagement.

The main focus of Wang’s visit is to restart long-stalled talks on the border dispute, take stock of weak trade and economic ties, and explore small steps toward improving relations between India and China.

Even after a recent rally, Chinese indexes have only just returned to levels seen in the aftermath of a dramatic bubble burst a decade ago

The Chinese Embassy in Washington described the topic of Taiwan as ' the most important and sensitive issue' in China-U.S. relations

Both sides have proposed restarting trade through designated points on the shared border, and the matter is currently under bilateral discussion

These comments come amid ongoing tariff disputes between the two nations, when Washington imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of Chinese goods.

The Ministry of External Affairs said as a lower riparian state with considerable established user rights to the waters of trans-border rivers, India has consistently conveyed its concerns to China. including on the need for transparency.

US President Donald Trump’s recent tirade against India over trade and purchase of Russian oil casts a doubt on the future of the Indo-Pacific bloc