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China President Xi urges govt officials to push for reform, meet targets

Xi also called on the provinicial officials to meet the country's annual economic and social development targets within the next two months

Modi-Xi summit: A cautious step, but India must not lower its guard

The Galwan clash occurred six months after the Doklam disengagement and two high-profile meetings. India must not lower its guard

Qualified restart: Modi-Xi talks pave the way for new opportunities

The meeting between the leaders of India and China is a good restart, India will persistently need to work both on the diplomatic and economic fronts

Modi and Xi’s first bilateral meeting in 5 years: What was on the table?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping recently met for the first time in nearly five years at the 16th BRICS summit in Russia. What did they discuss?

Modi, Xi meet in Kazan carries great significance to improve ties: China

China on Thursday said the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Russia's Kazan on Wednesday carries a great significance as they reached an important common understandings to improve the bilateral ties. They reached important common understandings on improving and developing China-India relations and set the course to steer bilateral relations back on the path of steady development, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a media briefing here. Replying to a question on how Beijing viewed the outcome of the meeting, Lin said, China stands ready to work with India to view and handle the bilateral relations from a strategic height and long-term perspective. China is also ready to step up communication and cooperation, enhance strategic mutual trust, properly handle differences, and bring bilateral relations back to the path of steady development as soon as possible, Lin said. Modi and Xi, who met on the sidelines of the BRICS summi

Xi Jinping agrees 'in principle' to PM Modi's suggestions on improving ties

Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed "in principle to the suggestions made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting here on Wednesday to improve India-China relations, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. In his meeting with Modi on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit in the Russian city of Kazan, Xi said China-India relations are essentially a question of how the two large developing countries and neighbours, each with a 1.4-billion-strong population, treat each other. Xi said China and India should maintain a sound strategic perception of each other and work together to find the "right and bright path" for big, neighbouring countries to live in harmony and develop side by side. The two leaders commended the important progress the two sides recently made through intensive communication on resolving the issues in the border areas. Modi made suggestions on improving and developing the relationship, which Xi agreed to in principle," Xinhua news agency reported without

Xi, PM Modi breakthrough came after months of pressure from Indian CEOs

Xi said both sides should strengthen cooperation and manage differences and disagreements

In meet with Xi, Modi welcomes pact for 'complete disengagement' along LAC

Meeting on margins of 16th Brics Summit, PM Modi and President Xi agree to stabilise and rebuild India-China bilateral relations

Brics Summit: Xi Jinping stresses need to 'build a peaceful Brics'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold bilateral talks on Wednesday on the margins of the BRICS summit in Russia, in their first structured meeting since the eastern Ladakh border row erupted in May 2020. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri made the announcement, a day after India and China firmed up an agreement on patrolling by their militaries along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, in a major breakthrough to end the over four-year standoff. "I can confirm that there will be a bilateral meeting between PM Modi and President Xi Jinping tomorrow (Wednesday) on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit," he said. In November 2022, Modi and Xi exchanged pleasantries and held a brief conversation at a dinner hosted by the Indonesian President for the G20 leaders. In August last year too, the Indian prime minister and the Chinese president held a brief and informal conversation in Johannesburg on the sidelines of the BRICS ...

Xi, Putin pledge new era of bilateral partnership for a just world order

Xi and Putin in May pledged a "new era" of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States, which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon sowing chaos across the world

Brics Summit: PM Modi heads to Russia; talks with Putin, Xi likely; updates

The Brics summit, themed 'Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security' this year, aims to foster dialogue on issues ranging from economic cooperation to global security

Xi Jinping inspects military brigade, calls for strengthening deterrence

Chinese President Xi Jinping has inspected a brigade of the military's strategic missile force that underwent a massive purge of officials for corruption in recent years, according to a media report on Saturday. Xi on Thursday visited at Hefei the Chinese People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Rocket Force, a key arm of the military operating the missiles, including nuclear weapons, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. He urged the strategic missile troops to strengthen their deterrence and combat capabilities and resolutely fulfil the tasks entrusted by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the people, the report said. The Rocket Force, established in 2015 as part of Xi's military overhaul, has been at the centre of the latest anti-corruption campaign targeting the military. Besides heading the ruling CPC and the Presidency, 71-year-old Xi also heads the Central Military Commission (CMC), the overall high command of the Chinese military. His visit to the Rocket Force, which operates

Will China's new $550 billion loan measure revive slumping property market?

China's central bank is contemplating additional measures to stimulate the country's property sector, including allowing policy banks and commercial lenders to provide loans to developers

Not subordinate to China: Taiwan in response to Xi's one-China principle

Liu highlighted Taipei's calls for peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, the right to its own space in the global arena

China to give one-off cash handouts for poor people in rare use of aid

While amount is unknown, deployment of one-time handouts within such a short period of time appears to be a departure for a government that has long eschewed what President Xi Jinping calls welfarism

China's deepening economic slowdown tests Xi's tolerance for growth miss

Pressure is growing on Chinese authorities to quickly ramp up fiscal and monetary stimulus to hit this year's growth target

Xi may meet Zelenskyy, says attendee, as Beijing defence forum opens

There is some hope that Chase's attendance could signal deeper working-level engagement with China

China offers Africa billions in fresh financing, promises 1 million jobs

Xi promised delegrates from more than 50 African nations that the $19 trillion Chinese economy will unilaterally improve access to its market for African trade

What to expect from the 9th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit

China approved loans worth $4.61 billion to Africa last year, the first annual increase since 2016

Xi Jinping wants bigger returns, fewer headaches from African debt deals

From Angola to Djibouti, for over a decade, China poured more than $120 billion of government-backed loans through its Belt and Road Initiative to build hydropower plants