Mr. Modi’s meeting with the Chinese President is their first public exchange of greetings since the LAC standoff in April 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with the U.S. President Joseph Biden and also exchanged words with Chinese President Xi Jinping — their first such meeting in three years — on the sidelines of the G-20 summit on November 15, 2022. On November 16, 2022, Mr. Modi is expected to hold more structured, bilateral meetings with at least eight of the 16 leaders present in Bali for the annual meeting of the world’s most advanced economies, including his first such interaction with the U.K.’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.
The PM’s meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping at Bali was remarkable, given that Mr. Modi and Mr. Xi had not had any public interaction at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit at Samarkand in September, despite standing next to each other during the joint photo call. The two leaders had last held a bilateral meeting in November 2019. They have not publicly spoken at all since the April 2020 standoff at the Line of Actual Control and the killing of soldiers at Galwan in June that year.
PM meets Xi, Biden on sidelines of G-20, plans structured bilaterals with 8 leaders on Wednesday
Mr. Modi’s meeting with the Chinese President is their first public exchange of greetings since the LAC standoff in April 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with the U.S. President Joseph Biden and also exchanged words with Chinese President Xi Jinping — their first such meeting in three years — on the sidelines of the G-20 summit on November 15, 2022. On November 16, 2022, Mr. Modi is expected to hold more structured, bilateral meetings with at least eight of the 16 leaders present in Bali for the annual meeting of the world’s most advanced economies, including his first such interaction with the U.K.’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.
The PM’s meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping at Bali was remarkable, given that Mr. Modi and Mr. Xi had not had any public interaction at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit at Samarkand in September, despite standing next to each other during the joint photo call. The two leaders had last held a bilateral meeting in November 2019. They have not publicly spoken at all since the April 2020 standoff at the Line of Actual Control and the killing of soldiers at Galwan in June that year.
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