PM Modi will visit China for the first time after the clash in Galwan, Ladakh!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. This will be PM Modi's first visit to China after the clash between the armies of the two countries in Galwan in eastern Ladakh in 2020. The visit comes in the backdrop of efforts by India and China to improve bilateral ties.
The SCO summit is scheduled to be held in China from August 31 to September 1. PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping last met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia in October 2024. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, leaders of more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organizations will attend the SCO summit and related events. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Japan to attend the SCO summit. PM Modi will attend the annual summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on August 30. PM Modi had earlier visited China in 2019. Key issues such as trade cooperation, terrorism, regional security and multilateral cooperation will be discussed. PM Modi's visit to China comes at a time when the US has been threatening India with further tariff hikes. US President Donald Trump has claimed that the BRICS countries are weakening the dollar. "BRICS was founded to hurt us and weaken our dollar," Trump said last month. If this group ever comes out in a strong manner, it will be finished very soon. This group is now rapidly declining. Taking away the status of the dollar would be like losing a world war. We will not let the dollar fall. "