PM Narendra Modi, on her first visit to China after seven years, organized a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a hotel in Tianjin at the Summit of the Organization for Cooperation in Shanghai (SCO) 31 August.
The Modi-Xi meeting comes when India and China seek to strengthen the links in the middle of the global tension trade caused by US President Donald Trump.
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The meeting of Narendry Modi with XI in China also assumes significance, because it is the first way of the Prime Minister to China since April-May 2020, when India and China have become involved in a military distance to the line of real control (LAC).
XI and Modi met last year in Kazan on the edge of the Brics Summit, which ended four years of blockage or freezing in bilateral ties over military tension in the eastern Ladak.
Two neighboring nations show signs of Détente at a time when the relations between India and the US are dealing with President Donald Trump’s decision to double tariffs for Indian goods.
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China XI Jinping is also trying to revive the slow Chinese economy at a time when American tariffs with a high sky threaten their plans, according to the BBC report
India and China are economic power plants. China is the second largest economy in the world. Expecting that India’s growth will remain above 6 percent, the economy is $ 4 trillion on the way to the third largest economy by 2028, according to the IMF.
“While the world has traditionally focused on the only most important bilateral relationship in the world, the US and China, it is time for us to focus more on how the second and third largest economies can cooperate,” said Qian Liu, founder and CEO of Wusawa Advisory based in Beijing.
Bilateral investment
According to the Chinese Ministry of Trade, Chinese investment in India was $ 60.37 million in 2023, and the cumulative Chinese investment in India was $ 3.2 billion by 2023 (since 2015).
According to DPIit data, the Indian cumulative direct foreign investment in China was $ 2.5 billion until March 2025 (since April 2000).
History of Binding in India
Narendra Modi visits China in the continuation of the previous Prime Minister’s efforts to improve custody with China. Since a visit to Jawahala Nezru from 1954, which introduced the principles of Panchsheel to a visit to Bihari Vajpayee from 2003, which has noticed several agreements that were signed, tied in India and China. Visits of the predecessor Modi also focused on dialogue, trade and border stability.
Here is a view of the timeline of key events in the relationship between India in China over the past few decades:
1949: India becomes the second non -communist nation after Burma to recognize the People’s Republic of China.
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1950: Diplomatic relations were established between India and China.
1954: Both nations sign 5 principles of peaceful coexistence or panchsheel, which ensures the territorial integrity of the other and peaceful coexistence.
1959: The Tibetan spiritual leader of the Dalai Lama flees an estimated 80,000 followers and establishes an “government in exile” in India.
1962: India and China are fighting a short border war with a defeat in Nový Delhi.
1976: Both nations Restore full diplomatic links after a 15 -year break.
1979: The then Foreign Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited China.
1981: Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hu visits India. Both countries begin with an annual dialogue.
1988: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visits China. Both nations agree to create a joint working group for border disputes.
1991: Chinese Prime Minister Li PENG visits India, the first Chinese Prime Minister in 31 years.
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1993: PM PV Narasimha Rao visits China.
1995: Both countries decide to withdraw their units to the eastern sector.
1996 – Chinese President Jiang soil visits India
2000: India, China, signs the bilateral trade agreement to facilitate Beijing’s early entry into the WTO.
2002: Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji visits India.
2003: PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee visits China. Both nations have reached a de facto agreement on the state of Tibet and Sikkim.
2005: When visiting India, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao supports the Indian offer for a permanent chair in the UN Security Council.
India-China’s bonds after a military distance along the border in the eastern Ladak in 2020.
Galwan clashes
2020: Up to 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers were killed in the fight against the hands in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, northern India in June 2020.
As a result of clashes, the new Delhi increased the control of investment from China, banned the popular Chinese mobile application and interrupted direct air routes.
December 2022: In the Tawang sector in Arnacal Pradesh, which China, small border scratches between Indian and Chinese units are discharged within the southern Tibet.
Aug 2023: Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet in Johannesburg on the outskirts of the BRICS peak grouping of nations and agree to intensify the efforts to relax and de-skiing tension.
September 2024: The Jaishankar Foreign Minister, who spoke at the Geneva event, says about 75 percent of the “release” problems on the Indian border with China has been solved.
October 2024: India and China will reach an agreement to patrol their questionable boundaries to end the military stand-off.
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping organize their first formal interviews in five years 23. October on October on the Brics Summit in Russia.
December 2024: The National Security Advisor (NDA) Ajit Doval visits China to organize the first formal interviews with Foreign Minister Wang Yi after the October agreement.
Doval and Wang are marked by their countries as special representatives to discuss the boundaries.
JAB 2025: Wang and Foreign Minister Vikram Misri organizes interviews in China. Both parties agree to restore direct air services and work on dealing with differences in business and economic questions.
April 2025: A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy says India and China should cooperate to overcome the difficulties that are tariffs stored by Trump administration.
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July 2025: Jaishankar will make his first visit to China in five years. He says India and China must solve the friction of the borders, withdraw the soldiers and avoid “restrictive business measures” to normalize their relationship.
August 2025: Wang tells its Indian counterpart Jaishankar during a visit to New Delhi that China and India should introduce a “right strategic understanding” and consider each other as partners, not opponents.
The Chinese Ambassador XU Feihong at the New Delhi event says that China is against the steep tariffs in Washington, India and will be “firm with India”.
While the world has traditionally focused on the only most important two -sided relationship in the world, the US and China, it is time to focus more on how the second and third largest economies can work together, China and India.
31 August 2025: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet President Xi Jinping during his first visit to China in seven years.
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