Modi’s SCOpe of Influence

Modi will be in China after seven years for the summit level

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

(SCO) meeting in Tianjin. His last two visits were both in 2018 in his first term – to Wuhan for an informal summit with the Chinese president and later to Dalian for the SCO summit.
Much water has flowed down the Brahmaputra since those visits. India-China relations have gone through a rocky period in the

Galwan crisis

. New Delhi may forgive but will not forget the loss of lives at Galwan that was a premeditated action by Chinese military aimed at changing the status quo at Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.