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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Sunday as he travels to China for the first time in seven years.
The two leaders had last met on October 23, 2024 on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia’s Kazan. PM Modi had last travelled to China in 2018.
India and China’s diplomatic relations had taken a hit following a military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh that began in May 2020 following Chinese incursions.
The two countries have since sought to repair ties, resuming the Mansarovar Yatra, visas for Chinese tourists and looking at revival of direct flights. However, these efforts took a hit again in May when India came across evidence of active Chinese assistance to the Pakistan military during the hostilities that followed Operation Sindoor.
Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More
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