Modi-Xi Relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently held their first official meeting since 2019 while attending the BRICS summit in Russia. A deal to withdraw and ease tensions along the disputed Himalayan frontier, where violence in 2020 claimed lives on both sides, preceded the summit.
The ambiguous 3,440-kilometer boundary between China and India has been a major factor in the decades-long tensions between the two countries. There have been a number of conflicts, most notably the one in the Galwan Valley in 2020, which increased military and economic tensions and resulted in India imposing limits on Chinese companies.
The latest meeting represents a change for the better. With arrangements for their top officials to meet and discuss border issues, the leaders decided to start talking again. S. Jaishankar, the Indian foreign minister, had previously stated that both nations are attempting to restore trust and that about 75% of the disengagement at the border had been finished.
Xi and Modi agreed to put peace and stability along the border first and recognized the value of bilateral ties for world peace. They also emphasized the necessity of cooperation and trust between the two countries, especially given their important positions in the Global South.
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