# Xi likely to attend September BRICS summit in New Delhi
2026-08-24T22:01:33+00:00 | World & Diplomacy | Indian Opinion Desk
Corroboration: 3 independent outlets
Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to attend the September 12-13 BRICS summit in New Delhi with a delegation of about 400 officials, three sources told The China-Global South Project. It would be his first visit to India in seven years and a signal of thawing ties after the deadly 2020 Galwan Valley border clashes. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval arrived in Beijing on Monday for the 25th round of Special Representatives talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the boundary question. Rediff.com reports the talks are held amid uncertainty over Xi's visit and recent tensions along the Arunachal Pradesh border. The Hindu reports that leading Chinese scholar Hu Shisheng said the immediate focus would be on institutionalising stability, not a dramatic settlement, and on operationalising an early-harvest process on boundary delimitation. India's External Affairs Ministry said Doval will also call on Vice President Han Zheng. The two sides last reached a disengagement pact in October 2024 after a four-year military standoff. The current talks aim to prevent misunderstandings along the Line of Actual Control and create conditions for possible leader-level interaction at the BRICS summit.
## Indian Opinion Analysis
The China-Global South Project leads with Xi's likely visit as a thaw signal, foregrounding delegation size and logistics. Rediff.com frames the Doval-Wang talks as happening amid Xi-visit uncertainty, leading with the border dispute and Arunachal tensions. The Hindu leads with a Chinese scholar's view that institutionalising stability, not a settlement, is the goal, it omits the 400-delegation figure entirely. The pro-normalisation framing in one source overstates progress, the others foreground unresolved structural differences and procedural steps, not a breakthrough. The 25th Special Representatives round in Beijing on Tuesday will show whether the Expert Group on boundary delimitation moves from a concept to an operational timetable, or remains aspirational.
## Coverage
Coverage: 3 sources, 1 government-critical, 2 neutral
- chinaglobalsouth.com (neutral report)
Leads with Xi visit as a thaw signal, foregrounds delegation logistics and border-disengagement pact
- rediff.com (government critical)
Leads with Doval talks amid Xi-visit uncertainty, foregrounds border tensions and Arunachal incidents
- thehindu.com (neutral report)
Leads with a Chinese scholar's view that stability, not settlement, is the goal, omits delegation specifics
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources. Last updated 2026-08-25T02:26:04+00:00.
Tags: Ajit Doval, BRICS, India-China border, Wang Yi, Xi Jinping
Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/xi-likely-to-attend-brics-summit-in-delhi-first-india-visit-in-seven-years/
License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources.
Cite: https://indianopinion.org/xi-likely-to-attend-brics-summit-in-delhi-first-india-visit-in-seven-years/#story-in-brief
How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/