With the hope of improving relations between New Delhi and Beijing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited China’s two -day visit to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday. This meeting is the second summit between Prime Minister Modi and Jinping in the last 10 months. Earlier, the two leaders met in 2024 on the sides of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia. This is also Prime Minister Modi’s first visit to China in the last seven years, and has been seen as an important step towards improving relations between the two countries, which worsened after a clash in the Galwan Valley in East Ladakh in 2020. This meeting is taking place at a time when both India and China are facing constant pressure from America to buy trade and Russian crude oil.
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Prime Minister Modi and Xi Jinping shook hands
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the port city of Tianjin of China that mutual trust and honor would guide the India-China relations.
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This bilateral dialogue began with joining hands between the two leaders, indicating the next step towards reconciliation between the two older rivals. Also, it was also a message for US President Donald Trump, whose tariff aggressive stance has spoiled Washington’s relationship with both New Delhi and Beijing.
During this meeting lasted for an hour, Prime Minister Modi highlighted the recent progress made in bilateral relations, including agreement between special representatives on the boundary deadlock to restoration of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra and reinstate the direct flights between the two countries.
The Prime Minister said, “The interests of 2.8 billion people of both countries are connected with our cooperation. This will also pave the way for the welfare of the entire humanity.” He further said, “We are committed to pursue our relationship based on mutual trust, respect and sensitivity.”
Xi Jinping welcomed Prime Minister Modi and said, “China and India are the two most civilized countries. We are the two most populous countries in the world and are part of Global South … Being friends, becoming a good neighbor and dragon and elephant coming together are very important.”
Seven years have passed since Prime Minister Modi stepped into China. In 2018, his Wuhan Yatra took place after a stressful Doklam deadlock. This time, the economic and strategic coordination between the two Asian powers is being focused on as they are dealing with the upheaval arising out of Trump’s tariff attack.
Prime Minister Modi is also scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tianjin, which is the first meeting between the two leaders since the US doubles the tariff on Indian goods after New Delhi’s refusal to stop buying Russian oil.
Even before the punitive tariff of Washington, India was showing carefully warmth towards China, trying to expand trade, as a source of investment and technology.
Following years of disbelief after the Doklam deadlock, the relationship between the two neighbors reached its lowest level after the deadly clashes in the Galwan Valley in 2020. Relations began to improve last October, when the Prime Minister and Xi Jinping met at the BRICS summit in Russia after staying away from each other on multilateral forums for a long time. The meeting took place after both sides agreed to retreat on the remaining collision points on the Line of Actual Control.
Now, with a decline in the US-India relations, New Delhi has a new incentive to reduce stress with Beijing. Analysts say Trump’s trade war has reversed the decades -old American diplomacy, which established India as the opposition of China.
PM Modi, Chinese President Hold Bilateral Talks in Tianjin
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