Nepal, Aug. 29 -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit China's Tianjin on August 31 for a summit meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. His last visit to China was in 2018 for the SCO Summit in Qingdao.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army's ingress into Eastern Ladakh in the summer of 2020, and the loss of lives of soldiers at Galwan valley, ruptured bilateral relations and brought the two militaries into a stand-off along their disputed de facto border. After seeing little progress for four years, diplomatic and military negotiations for disengagement of the two countries' forces at the Line of Actual Control finally ga...