Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping interacted briefly ahead of a news conference by leaders of the Brics grouping in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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00:00 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping interacted briefly ahead of a news
00:09 conference by leaders of the BRICS grouping in Johannesburg on Thursday.
00:14 Modi and Xi are in the South African city of Johannesburg to attend the annual summit
00:18 of BRICS, i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
00:22 Video footage aired by a South African broadcaster showed Modi and Xi having a brief exchange.
00:27 There were no official comment on the exchange by either side.
00:30 Ahead of the start of the BRICS summit, there was speculation about the possibility of a
00:33 bilateral meeting between Modi and Xi in Johannesburg.
00:37 This was the first time that the two leaders interacted in public since their brief interaction
00:40 during last year's G20 summit in Bali.
00:43 Modi and Xi had met briefly at a formal dinner hosted by Indonesian President Yoko Widodo
00:48 on November 16, 2022.
00:50 At that time, the Indian side had categorized the interaction as merely an exchange of courtesies.
00:55 But after China's foreign ministry contended in July that Modi and Xi had reached an important
01:00 consensus on stabilizing China-India relations during the Bali interaction, the external
01:04 affairs ministry said that the leaders had discussed the need to stabilize bilateral
01:08 ties.
01:09 Modi is traveling to Greece on Thursday evening after concluding his engagements in the South
01:13 African city.
01:14 The prime minister and the Chinese president had a brief encounter at a dinner during the
01:18 G20 summit in Bali in November last year.
01:20 The ties between India and China came under severe strain following the eastern Ladakh
01:23 border war that began in May 2020.
01:26 Indian and Chinese troops are locked in an over three-year standoff in certain friction
01:30 points in eastern Ladakh, even as the two sides completed disengagement from several
01:34 areas following extensive diplomatic and military talks.
01:39 India and China held the 19th round of COPS commander-level talks on August 13 and 14
01:43 with a focus on resolving pending issues at the standoff areas of Debsang and Demchok
01:47 in eastern Ladakh.
01:48 A joint statement described the talks as "positive, constructive, and in-depth" and that both
01:53 sides agreed to resolve the remaining issues in an expeditious manner.
01:56 Days after the fresh round of high-level talks, the local commanders of the two militaries
02:00 held a series of negotiations in two separate locations to resolve issues in Debsang plains
02:05 and Demchok.
02:06 National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met China's
02:10 Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of multilateral meetings in July and discussed
02:14 the border standoff.
02:14 [Music]