China confirms Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit at end of month
Modi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says on second day of visit to New Delhi
It will be Modi’s first trip to China in seven years and raises expectations he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the event.
Wang also met Modi later on Tuesday.
The SCO, a largely Eurasian security bloc that China chairs this year, will meet in the northern city of Tianjin between August 31 and September 1. Russian President Vladimir Putin had already confirmed he would attend.
Wang’s trip to India marks another milestone in China-India ties, which sharply deteriorated after a deadly border clash in 2020. The two countries are now seeing their relationship improve amid ongoing trade tensions with the United States.