Modi in China to begin meet with Xi Jinping soon: Everything you must know
Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping Wuhan summit: Sino-India ties pegged on lakeside walks? Top updates on Business Standard. The Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping informal summit in China's Wuhan city from today will see Modi and Xi discuss issues of bilateral and global importance, and review India-China relations.
Latest News The informal, two-day Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping summit will begin today; Prime Minister Modi arrived at the Chinese city of Wuhan a little past midnight on Friday. Before departing for China, Modi said President Xi and he "will exchange views on a range of issues of bilateral and global importance" at the summit and "review the developments in the India-China relations from a strategic and long-term perspective". The Modi-Xi meeting will be different from past such encounters as the talks will be freewheeling, instead of being choreographed. Further, only one Mandarin-speaking Indian interpreter will be present. The Wuhan summit will see Modi and Xi reportedly discuss issues ranging from US President Donald Trump's trade policies, protectionism, globalisation, Xi's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the India-China border dispute, even as the two leaders take lakeside walks and boat rides together. With the future of Sino-Indian ties hanging in the balance, Chinese President Xi is hosting ModiInChina for the informal summit where officials said the two leaders would spend most of their time interacting in one-on-one conversations. According to official statements from both sides, the Modi-Xi summit aims to create a broad framework
for India-China ties and build trust between the two leaders. The summit is being seen as an effort by India and China to rebuild trust and improve ties, which have faced stumbling blocks and were hit by the 73-day-long Doklam standoff last year. Even though official sources have said that the Modi-Xi summit will eschew looking into specific issues in favour of the big picture of India-China ties, a section of the Chinese media has accorded high importance to the summit. The Modi-Xi Jinping Wuhan summit could be as significant as the one between former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the then leader of China Deng Xiaoping in 1988, the official Chinese media commented on Tuesday. "The meeting can be as significant as the one in 1988 when Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and then Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi met, and will set the course for bilateral ties," an op-ed in Global Times said. Here are the top 10 developments around the twoday Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping Wuhan summit in China that starts today:
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