India, Aug. 31 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tianjin, the venue of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, marked a consolidation of efforts to normalise bilateral relations since the end of the face-off on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) last year. There were few expectations of major breakthroughs at the meeting, which allowed the leaders to review progress made after the two sides agreed last October to withdraw forces from several friction points on the disputed border in Ladakh. With the Special Representatives agreeing earlier this month on measures such as an "early harvest" in boundary delimitation, the two leaders committed themselves to a fair, reasonable, and mutuall...