PM Modi Arrives In China, First In 7 Years As India Resets Ties Amid US Tariff Tension

PM Modi Arrives In China, First In 7 Years As India Resets Ties Amid US Tar-Credit-ANI

PM Modi will meet with President Xi Jinping and President Putin for bilateral talks, focusing on economic ties and normalising relations strained by the 2020 border clashes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Tianjin, China, on Saturday, where he will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. He will also hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will also attend the summit. 

The visit, a first in seven years, comes as India resets its ties with China amid 50 per cent tariff slapped by the US on Indian imports. India-China relations plunged after the deadly clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along the border in Galwan Valley in June 2020. 

The bilateral talks between Modi and Xi, slated for Sunday, will include discussions on economic ties and steps to further normalise relations that came under severe strain following the eastern Ladakh border row.

In Tianjin, Modi received a warm welcome from the Indian diaspora. 

The Prime Minister arrived in China after his two-day visit to Japan, where he held a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and secured an investment of 10 trillion Yen in India over the next 10 years.

Ahead of his Tianjin visit, Modi highlighted cooperation between India and China in bringing stability to the world economic order.

He stressed that stable, predictable, and amicable bilateral relations between India and China can have a positive impact on regional and global peace and prosperity.

“Given the current volatility in world economy, it is also important for India and China, as two major economies, to work together to bring stability to the world economic order,” Modi said in an interview with Japan’s The Yomiuri Shimbun.