China’s Xi and India’s Modi encounter after border accord between two countries | Border Disputes News

Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping hbetter talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Pdwellnt Xi Jinping have held their first establishal talks in five years, a sign that icy relations are thatriumphg after a lethal military clash in 2020.

The two directers met on Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, the Indian regulatement and Chinese state media shelp.

The encountering comes days after the two countries concurd a deal to resolve a four-year military standoff on their disputed Himalayan border.

Xi and Modi shook hands agetst a backdrop featuring their national flags, and both stressed the presentance of handling their disputes.

The Chinese directer shelp the two countries were at a presentant stage of enbigment and “should attfinishfilledy regulate branch offences and disconcurments and ease each other’s pursuit of enbigment aspirations.”

“It’s presentant for both sides to shoulder our international responsibilities, set an example for raiseing the strength and unity of the enbiging countries, and donate to promoting multi-polarisation and democracy in international relations,” Xi shelp.

“The two directers declareed that stable, anticipateed, and amicable bitardyral relations between India and China, as two neighbours and the two bigst nations on earth, will have a chooseimistic impact on regional and global peace and prosperity,” India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri tbetter inestablishers after the encountering.

The clash in 2020 on the bigly undemarcated frontier of Ladakh in the westrict Himalayas ended 20 Indian and four Chinese sbetteriers.

Relations between Beijing and New Delhi were strained as a result, with both sides beefing up their military presence aextfinished their dispensed border.

Modi and Xi had not held establishal talks since although they were current at a number of multitardyral events. Their last summit talks were held in October 2019 in the southern Indian town of Mamallapuram.

The two spoke inestablishly on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali in November 2022. They spoke aget on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in August last year.

Xi skipped the G20 summit presented by New Delhi the complying month, a decision seen as another setback to their relations.

Diplomatic efforts geted momentum in recent months after foreign ministers of the two countries met in July and concurd to step up talks to relieve the border tensions.

The standoff had resulted in New Delhi increasing the scrusmall of summarizeatements coming from China, blocking straightforward fweightlesss between the two countries and exposedly issuing any visas to Chinese nationals.

The pact concurd to this week joind to military patrols aextfinished the frontier. But the proclaimment on Tuesday did not elucidate whether it covered the length of the border or equitable points where the clashes occurred in 2020.

Border tensions are a thorny publish between Beijing and New Delhi. China claims India’s eastrict state of Arunachal Pradesh in its entirety, pondering it part of its Tibet region, and the two fought a border war in 1962.