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Saturday, September 20, 2025
TopicXi Jinping

Topic: Xi Jinping

Trump says ‘progress made’ with Xi on TikTok; leaders to meet in six weeks in South Korea

The two leaders held their first call in three months. The US president said he would visit China early next year, while Xi would visit the US later.

‘Show of regional solidarity’—global media’s reading of Modi, Xi, Putin huddle at SCO & Trump factor

Reports weigh in on the significance of Modi's visit to China, what it reveals about Trump's diplomacy & implications for India.

‘Development partners, not rivals,’ say Modi-Xi at meet; PM underlines peace at borders key to growth of ties

Meeting between 2 leaders comes a day before SCO Heads of State Summit in Tianjin, where Modi will meet Putin, Shehbaz Sharif, Erdogan & Ilham Aliyev, too.

Modi meets Xi, to hold bilateral with Putin but summit of Russia-India-China bloc not on agenda

Prime Minister Modi, in China for SCO summit, is in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and will hold a bilateral dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday.

When Apple CEO Tim Cook apologised to China in Mandarin & flew to Beijing for a secret meeting

In 'Apple in China', Patrick McGee analyses how the American tech giant helped build China’s dominance in electronics—and passively cooperated with an authoritarian regime.

Chinese President Xi Jinping signs treaty with Central Asia to boost economic ties

Since Russia’s Ukraine invasion, China has deepened economic ties with Central Asian nations, eyeing their strategic location and rich energy resources.

India-Pakistan conflict is a sandbox for China’s peacekeeping pretensions

For China, Pakistan is not a problem at all – it is an instrument, a conduit for influence, a state useful precisely because of its instability.

Hints of thaw in US-China tariff war—as Trump says duties to ‘come down’, China open to talks

Trump has expressed optimism about reaching a tariff agreement ‘pretty quickly’, while Xi said that tariff & trade wars undermine the legitimate rights and interests of all countries.

Trump’s economic coercion to secure US hegemony feels like it’s 1940s all over again

Through the massive tariffs imposed on China, journalist Will Dunn says, Trump is telling other powers that the price of access to America’s markets is in obedience to America’s rules.

Modi underlines ‘no-dispute’ approach to ties with China, endorses healthy competition

In three-hour podcast released Sunday, Modi also spoke about border tensions and emphasised that India-China ties have ‘always been about learning from, understanding one another’.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.