Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on 31 August in Tianjin, China, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.
The two-day summit, running from August 31 to September 1, will bring together more than 20 world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The gathering is seen as a display of Global South solidarity amid heightened geopolitical tensions. Leaders from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia have also been invited.
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This will be Modi’s first visit to China in more than seven years and comes as New Delhi and Beijing continue efforts to ease tensions following the deadly border clashes of 2020.
Modi last appeared alongside Xi and Putin at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, in 2024, even as Western leaders distanced themselves from Moscow over the Ukraine war. Russian diplomats in New Delhi recently indicated that Moscow is hopeful of trilateral talks between India, China and Russia in the near future.
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