Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi, the Chinese and Indian leaders, have held their first formal bilateral meeting in five years, marking an apparent thaw in relations between the neighbouring nuclear-armed states.
The meeting, at the leaders’ summit of Brics nations in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday, came days after the two countries announced an agreement on patrols along their disputed border, the site of deadly clashes four years ago.
The Chinese president used his meeting with India’s prime minister to urge co-operation between their nations as “two major developing countries and important members of the global south”, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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