Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will come face-to-face at the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa,...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will come face-to-face at the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, or BRICS, summit via video conference on November 17. This would be their first such exchange since tensions along the border in Ladakh sparked off a chain of military confrontations between the two countries.
Russia, which currently holds the BRICS chair, announced on Monday that the 12th summit is going to be held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Modi and Xi, who have met at least 18 times in the last six years, last shared a platform on March 26 when Saudi Arabia held the virtual gathering of G20 leaders, according to The Indian Express. Although the defence and foreign ministry counterparts of India and China have held a series of talks to defuse tensions – without much success – the two leaders have not spoken to each other since the border standoff first became public in May.
“It has been five months since the standoff began, and in Moscow last month, the foreign ministers adopted a five-pronged approach to disengage and de-escalate early,” an unidentified official told The Indian Express. “But there has been no progress in disengagement since then, although there has been no escalation either. We will have to...
