Xi Jinping

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Behind this diplomatic recalibration lies a new geopolitical push: growing economic pressure from the United States, particularly under Donald Trump’s escalating tariff threats.

Aides to Trump and Xi have discussed a potential meeting between the leaders during a trip by the US president to Asia later this year

The two countries have been trying to negotiate an end to an escalating tit-for-tat tariff war that has upended global trade and supply chains

Jaishankar’s presence in China is significant in itself. It is his first visit to the country in over five years, and comes amid a renewed push by both New Delhi and Beijing to stabilise their relationship.

After Trump issuing tariff letters, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Asian nations might get "better" tariff rates than the rest of the world.

The CCP’s disciplinary agency functions outside the legal system, using secret detention systems such as Shuanggui and Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL).

Some analysts believe that Xi’s no-show at BRICS Summit 2025 is about more than just economics; it could signal deeper cracks in his leadership.

With the clock ticking, the delay is no longer just about diplomatic calendars – it’s becoming a test of whether the two powers can still engage constructively at the highest levels.

This development comes as a setback to hopes of a continued thaw in India–China ties, which began with the carefully choreographed handshake between PM Modi and Xi at the 2023 BRICS Summit in Kazan.

Xi’s disappearance is not an isolated event but part of a broader trend in which the CCP sidelines its own leaders to weaken their operational influence without formal removal.

All three planes followed the same route - west over northern China into Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, before vanishing from radar near Iran.

The deal, reached after Trump and China's President Xi Jinping spoke on the telephone last week, brings a delicate truce in a trade war between the world's two largest economies