Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in China and will meet President Xi Jinping on Sunday before the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin.
From 31 August to 1 September, PM will be in Tianjin, North China for the SCO summit.
Modi said in a post on X, “Tianjin landed in China. To discuss the SCO summit and meet various world leaders,” Modi said in a post on X on Saturday.
Modi to meet today
The meeting is scheduled with a 40 -minute time slot around the local time (IST) at noon and a melting in relations between India and China.
It is also the first visit to China to China in seven years and the second meeting between Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in ten months. The final meeting between the two was held on the banks of the BRICS 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia.
While a bilateral meeting with the host at a multilateral summit is not uncommon, Modi-XI meeting takes special importance in the backdrop of a stressful relations between India and the US after 50 percent of the 50 percent tariff of President Donald Trump on New Delhi to buy Russian oil.
It comes soon after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to New Delhi earlier this month, during which the two nations reached a consensus of 10 points in the border talks with NSA Ajit Doval.
Melting in India-China relations
After the 2024 meeting between Modi and Xi, a melting in India-China relations became clear. Negotiations between the delegations of the two countries were stepped up to revive the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, Indian visa for Chinese tourists, and direct flights between the two countries.
Ahead of Modi’s visit to China for the SCO summit, NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a 24th round of talks on the India-China border question on August 19.
Chinese defense spokesperson Zhang Ziaongang first commented on the consequences of the dialogue, saying, “During the talks, the consensus of 10 points reached the consensus, and the two sides agreed to use the border management and control mechanisms through diplomatic and military channels,” China’s defense spokesperson Zhang Ziaongang said for the first time.
The Doval-Wang talks produced five concrete results, including the installation of an expert group under the function mechanisms for consultation and coordination (WMCC) to detect “Early Crop in Border limitation”.
The border-related mechanisms and dialogue, as well as bilateral trade and investment, are expected to move forward in the meeting.
