Chinese President urges Indian Prime Minister to forego border issues in a broader China India relations.

Sept 2025 : While, meeting on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation {SCO} summit in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the two countries could be good neighbours and play a key part in the Global South, according to state news agency Xinhua. Border issues should not be the defining factor in China-India ties, Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, saying the relationship required a “strategic and long-term perspective”.

This is Modi’s first trip to China in seven years and it comes at a pivotal moment. Both countries are working to resolve long-standing disputes and find common ground as each feel strains in their relationship with the United States.

Beijing is also using the summit as an opportunity to showcase its leadership and build solidarity with the Global South. During the one-hour meeting, Xi called for more communication to increase trust, and played up the prospects for stronger cooperation in economic and global affairs.

Earlier last week in India, Beijing’s top envoy in New Delhi had expressed strong support for India, citing the steep US tariffs imposed against the country, and called for “teamwork” and “collaboration” between the world’s two most populous nations in standing up to the “bully”.

“US imposed tariffs of up to 50% on India. China firmly opposes it. Silence only emboldens the bully. China will firmly stand with India, uphold the multilateral trading system”, Ambassador Xu Feihong said. He said tariffs and trade wars are undermining the very free trade international system the US once benefited from, and accused Washington of wielding tariffs as a “bargaining chip to demand exorbitant prices from various countries”.

He made the remarks at the SCO Summit 2025: Resetting India-China Ties, organised by the Chintan Research Foundation, a New Delhi think tank. The rare show of solidarity comes against the backdrop of a turbulent global trade environment amid US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies targeting both countries. Peter Navarro, a White House senior trade adviser, on Thursday slammed India as “maharaja” of tariffs that has begun “cosying up” to President Xi Jinping.   

Team Maverick.