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In the port city of Tianjin, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, a historic meeting took place between two of Asia’s most powerful leaders: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was Modi’s first visit to China in seven years, and the messages emerging from the meeting signal a new chapter in relations between the two countries that have been fraught with tensions, including a border dispute in the Himalayas.
Xi told Modi that China and India should be “partners, not rivals,” while Modi said there was now an “atmosphere of peace and stability” between the two countries. Xi stressed that the two sides should “treat relations from a strategic and long-term perspective,” calling rapprochement “the right choice for both sides.”
In a concrete step towards normalization, Modi announced that flights between China and India, suspended since deadly clashes between troops on the mountainous border in 2020, will resume, although he did not give a specific date.
The meeting comes at a time when India-US relations are under significant strain. President Trump's administration has imposed steep tariffs on Indian goods in response to Delhi's decision to continue importing Russian oil. Russian President Vladimir Putin is also in Tianjin, amid fresh threats of sanctions over the ongoing war in Ukraine.
This atmosphere of confrontation with the US has further brought Modi and Xi, who lead two of the largest economies and most populous countries in the world, closer together. The Shanghai summit, attended by over 20 world leaders, comes as a reflection of the restructuring of the global architecture where the West is no longer the sole epicenter.
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