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Russia wholeheartedly welcomes that the first meeting between the Indian PM and Chinese President has happened in Kazan on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit as dialogue and stable relations between India and China is important for the security of Eurasia. “We are happy that the first meeting between PM Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in five years have happened in Kazan. A dialogue and stable relations between India and China is important for the security of Eurasia,” Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said in response to a question by ET at a special briefing on the BRICS Summit. «We are hopeful that India and China, as major civilisations possessing unique political wisdom, will find ways to achieve progress in the border issue and a normalisation of bilateral ties based on mutual respect of sensitive interests,” Alipov noted.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India and China have announced that they have reached an agreement on patrolling their common border after more than four years of tension. Can this boost trade and investment flow between the two economic powers? Mint explains: It is a first step towards rebuilding their relationship which took a beating following the border clash at Galwan in June 2020.

Xi Jinping said Wednesday that the ongoing BRICS summit here has decided to invite a number of nations to become partner countries and called on the grouping to actively respond to the requests of countries of the Global South to join the bloc. BRICS consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa has now expanded with five additional members — Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. In his speech addressing the 16th BRICS Summit, Xi said the summit has decided to invite a number of nations to become partner countries, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported. He hailed the decision as another important development in the course of BRICS development.

Xi Jinping held their first formal talks in five years on Wednesday, signalling that ties between the Asian giants damaged by a deadly military clash in 2020 had begun to recover. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, the Indian government and Chinese state media said, two days after New Delhi announced that it had reached a deal with Beijing to resolve the four-year military stand-off on their disputed Himalayan frontier. Relations between the world's two most populous nations — both nuclear powers — have been strained since a clash between their troops on the largely undemarcated frontier in the western Himalayas of Ladakh left 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers dead in 2020.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI—India and China have reached a breakthrough in discussions over their disputed Himalayan border, signaling room for improved ties after a high-altitude skirmish froze relations between the Asian giants. The two countries have arrived at an arrangement to resume patrolling along their de facto border, said India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday.

Xi Jinping on Tuesday left for Russia to attend the BRICS summit where he is expected to meet leaders of the member countries, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines. Xi will articulate China's vision for «greater cooperation» of the BRICS bloc, which has now expanded to 10 members, and «open a new era for the Global South to seek strength through solidarity» at the three day summit. The summit of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), which now has expanded with five additional members Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, is being held in the Russian city of Kazan, about 900 km east of Moscow, from October 22 to 24. Xi left Beijing for the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, TASS reported citing the Russian president's foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov. Speaking to reporters, Ushakov stated that the meetings will start on October 22. He said Putin will have a meeting with New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff. Following his talks with Rousseff, Putin will hold a meeting with PM Modi and later with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Furthermore, Putin's meetings are also planned with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to TASS report.

BRICS summit, the Modi government has said that India and China have reached an agreement to resume patrolling in eastern Ladakh. The development has brightened chances of a meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Kazan on the sidelines of the summit. «Over the last several weeks, Indian and Chinese diplomatic and military negotiators have been in close contact with each other in a variety of forums. As a result of the discussions that have taken place over the last several weeks, an agreement has been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border area and this is leading to disengagement and eventually a resolution of the issues that had arisen in these areas in 2020,» foreign secretary Vikram Misri said at a media briefing. Indian and Chinese soldiers will be able to resume patrolling in the way they had been doing before the border face-off in May 2020, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said at a media event. He said LAC breakthrough is a good development that happened due to «patient and persevering diplomacy».

Shringla has said that agreement between India and China on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh is likely to lead to de-escalation and provides an opening for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping to meet on the sidelines of BRICS Summit in Russia this week. Shringla, who was Foreign Secretary when actions of Chinese army led to a standoff along LAC in eastern Ladakh in May 2020, told that a fairly firm hand in the negotiations has brought about a satisfactory conclusion. «I think the agreement gives us a way to move forward, provides an opening for leaders to meet, and possibly even take this into de-escalation — the thinning out of troops on the frontline. It will be recalled that China had massed troops at the time when hostilities began, and those troops are still there. So I think after disengagement, we should look at de-escalation,» Shringla told ANI.

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Chinese authorities are demanding that a growing number of schoolteachers and other public sector employees hand in their passports as President Xi Jinping tightens his grip on society.

China has driven its technology industry off a cliff. The number of startups fell by 50,000 between the peak in 2018 and 2023, with this year on track to be even lower. The market capitalizations of the biggest tech companies, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., have shrunk to the tune of hundreds of billions, and pale in comparison to US peers. There is no sign that the sector will ever rebound to what it was before a government crackdown that kicked off in late 2020, even as policymakers have signaled it’s over. Becoming a billionaire entrepreneur has become something to be feared, rather than celebrated. It’s easy for US policymakers to see this with vindication and yet more evidence of a superior tech landscape at home. And from their vantage point, they are correct: President Xi Jinping strangled a generation of entrepreneurs who could have benefited consumers and made investors a lot of money.

China stocks rallied to their best day in 16 years, with related U.S. ETFs also soaring after recent economic stimulus buoyed investor optimism in the market.

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that no challenges can stop the country from moving forward and reiterated Beijing's reunification aims with Taiwan.

The sole candidate in the election for Macao’s next leader has pledged to diversify the economy of the Chinese casino city, a goal previously laid out by Beijing