New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on 31 August at a hotel in Tianjin, China, ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.

PM Modi's meeting with Xi in China also assumes significance as it is the prime minister's first trip to China since April-May 2020, when India and China became embroiled in a military standoff on the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Before Sunday's meeting, Xi and Modi met last year at Kazan on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, which ended a four-year deadlock or freeze in bilateral ties over military tensions in Eastern Ladakh.

As many as 20 Indian soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand combat in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, northern India, in June...