Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit to be held this month. This will be Prime Minister Modi’s visit to China after a clash between the forces of the two countries in Galwan, East Ladakh in 2020. The journey will be in view of efforts by India and China to improve bilateral relations.
Prime Minister Modi and Xi Jinping met last year
The SCO Summit will be held in China from 31 August to 1 September. The last meeting of Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping took place during the BRICS summit in Russia in October 2024. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, leaders from more than 20 countries and prominent SCOs of 10 international organizations will participate in the summit and related programs.
Prime Minister Modi will visit Japan before China
Prime Minister Modi will visit Japan before attending the SCO summit to be held in China. Prime Minister Modi will attend the annual summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on 30 August. Prime Minister Modi had earlier visited China in 2019. During this time important issues like trade cooperation, terrorism, regional security and multilateral cooperation will be discussed. Prime Minister Modi is traveling to China at a time when America is constantly threatening India to increase tariffs. US President Donald Trump has claimed that BRICS is weakening the country dollars.
Trump threatened BRICS countries
Trump said last month, “BRICS was installed to damage us and weaken our dollar. If this group ever came to light firmly, it will end soon. This group is now weakening fast. Losing dollar status will be like losing the world war. We will not let the dollar fall.”
Relations deteriorating after Galwan Valley
India lost 20 soldiers in a clash with Chinese soldiers on 15 June 2020 in the Galwan Valley of East Ladakh. During the Galwan clash, Indian soldiers retaliated without arms under the current protocol. The Chinese army also suffered a lot of damage in this, but it never publicly acknowledged this loss. After this, relations between the two countries started deteriorating.
