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PM Modi to meet China's Xi on August 31, Putin on September 1 at SCO Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for high-level bilateral meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping on August 31st and Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 1st, 2025. These crucial talks will occur on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in China. The discussions take place amidst a significant tariff conflict between India and the United States. This visit to China is part of a two-nation tour that also includes a stop in Japan. The context for these meetings includes ongoing efforts to improve India-China relations, marked by an undemarcated 3,488-kilometre border, and reinforcing a decades-old strategic partnership with Russia. A central theme is India's foreign policy approach, as one speaker noted, "India has always exercised the strategic autonomy as far as the foreign policy is concerned."