Ahead of the Modi-Xi meeting, China hinted that President Xi would highlight the need to forge a united front against U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies of trade protectionism and unilateralism using tariffs as a weapon.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek.
Mr. Modi arrived in the Kyrgyz capital on June 13 for the SCO summit, the first multilateral engagement post his re-election. The SCO is a China-led 8-member economic and security bloc with India and Pakistan being admitted to the grouping in 2017.Read More…