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Xi likely to attend September BRICS summit in New Delhi
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…
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: 3 sources, 1 government-critical, 2 neutral
Sources (3): chinaglobalsouth.com (neutral report), rediff.com (government critical), thehindu.com (neutral report)
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
