Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on August 31st in Tianjin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, their first bilateral meeting in China in seven years. The meeting comes at a time when both countries are facing economic heat from US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff moves. During the meeting, the leaders stressed strategic autonomy, cooperation over rivalry, and the need to insulate bilateral relations from border tensions and third-party pressures.
