A file photo of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping
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Diplomatic momentum between India and China is gathering pace, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping expected to come face-to-face at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek next week, setting the stage for a possible substantive engagement when Xi visits New Delhi for the BRICS summit later in September, sources said.
Moscow has indicated that Russian President Vladimir Putin also plans to meet Modi on the sidelines of the Bishkek gathering — a meeting the Indian government has since confirmed — ahead of a bigger meeting between the two leaders in Delhi later this month.
This sequence of high-level engagements between India, China and Russia, which include the successful round of border talks between National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Tuesday and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s recent Moscow visit for a trade and tech meet, comes at a time when India is facing uncertainty over trade and strategic relations with the US.
“The thaw in India-China relations is now getting translated into the possibility of closer trade and strategic ties. The meetings at the SCO Summit and BRICS Summit could be crucial in determining the road ahead,” a source tracking the matter told businessline.
Indian officials did not confirm if a meeting between Xi and Modi would happen on the sidelines of the SCO Summit, but sources said that there was a possibility. “There may be a possibility of a
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