The story of 20 meetings between PM Modi and Xi Jinping in 10 years, know when the two giants of Asia met.

BRICS summit 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia on Wednesday (October 23), which will be their first meeting since the eastern Ladakh border dispute erupted in May 2020. On the matter, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Misri said, “I confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Jinping.”

Earlier in November 2022, Modi and Jinping had met each other at a dinner hosted by the Indonesian President for G-20 leaders. After that, in August last year also, the Indian Prime Minister and the Chinese President had a brief and informal conversation in Johannesburg at the BRICS conference.

This formal meeting is taking place between the two countries after five years. This meeting is taking place at a time when a consensus has been reached between India and China on the border dispute, especially the issue of Galwan Valley. The conflict between the two countries was continuing after the infiltration of Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh in the year 2020.

After this incident, many diplomatic and military talks took place between the two countries, but tension remained. Now that the foreign ministries of both the countries have confirmed the consensus on the Galwan issue, this meeting may bring a new turn in relations.

History of Modi-Jinping meetings
Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping have met 20 times so far, which also includes informal meetings during international conferences. The two leaders met for the first time during the BRICS Summit in Brazil in 2014. Since then, there have been several talks between the two leaders on trade, border disputes and other strategic issues. However, due to increasing tension in relations between the two countries in the last four years, the pace of talks had slowed down.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China 9 times
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Actually, he has visited China 9 times. Out of these, 4 times while being the CM of Gujarat and 5 times while being on the post of PM.

When did Modi and Xi Jinping meet as PM?

• The first meeting took place at the sixth BRICS summit held in Brazil on 15 July 2014.
• In September 2014, Xi Jinping visited India for the first time. At that time Modi had taken him around Gujarat. This was also the first bilateral meeting between the two leaders.
• The leaders of BRICS countries met in the G-20 summit held in Brisbane, Australia in November 2014.
• Modi visited China for the first time after becoming Prime Minister in May 2015. Where he met Xi Jinping and a deal was made on 26 agreements.
• In July 2015, Modi went to Russia on a 3-day visit, where he met Xi Jinping.
• In June 2016, the leaders of the two countries met in Uzbekistan.
• PM Modi and Xi Jinping met at the G-20 summit held in Hangzhou, China in September 2016. Then India had emphasized on terrorist activities taking place from PoK.
• PM Modi met Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit held in Goa in October 2016. Even then a bilateral meeting was held on the sidelines of the function.
• Xi Jinping and Modi met in June 2017 on the occasion of India becoming a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for the first time.
• In July 2017, Xi Jinping and Modi met at the G20 summit in Hamburg.
• Xi Jinping and Modi met at the 9th BRICS summit held in Xiamen city of China in September 2017.
• In April 2018, PM Modi and President Xi Jinping met each other at a summit in Wuhan, China.
• PM Modi and Xi met in Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in June 2018.
• In November 2018, PM Modi and Xi Jinping met at the G20 summit held in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.
• In May 2019, Putin, Xi Jinping and Modi attended a conference, where Modi and Xi talked.
• In June 2019, after PM Modi came to power for the second consecutive time, PM Modi and Xi met at a conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
• In October 2019, there was an informal meeting of PM Modi and Xi Jinping in Mahabalipuram.
• During PM Modi’s visit to Brazil in November 2019, there was a meeting between the Chinese President and PM Modi at the 11th BRICS Summit.
• PM Modi and Xi Jinping did not formally talk in the G20 summit held in Bali, the capital of Indonesia in 2022, but still both of them talked to each other.
• PM Modi and Xi Jinping met for the last time in the year 2023 at the 15th BRICS summit held in South Africa. Then both of them met each other.

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