Has BRICS Summit Opened New India-China Chapter?

Has BRICS Summit Opened New India-China Chapter?

Xi's bilateral meeting with Modi was substantial and readouts from both sides gave indications of rapprochement, if not a reset of bilateral relations between India and China, notes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.

India-China After Xi’s Visit: The Call for Asymmetric Withdrawal

Xi Jinping’s September 2026 visit to New Delhi, on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit, brought India-China relations into a phase of cautious engagement. Yet the significance of the meeting lies less in a definitive reset than in the possibility of managing a relationship in which diplomatic openings coexist with unresolved structural tensions. The […]

China and India Just Changed BRICS Forever

China and India headlined the 2026 BRICS Meeting and when China and India work together this changes the entire future[...]

CEIAS Considers: BRICS Summit and Sino-Indian relations

Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to India, for the first time in seven years, to attend the 18th BRICS summit, held in New Delhi on September 12-13, 2026. As the annual summit of the now 11-member bloc took place less than two weeks before Xi’s planned visit to Washington, we approached several analysts to reflect on the summit’s key deliverables and its significance amid the intensifying US-China rivalry, the continued territorial disputes…

Xi’s visit and the path toward normalcy in India-China relations

While the bilateral meeting between PM Modi and President Xi marked a step towards normalcy, differing official readouts on the border issue and other sensitive topics highlight persistent challenges The BRICS 2026 Summit concluded successfully in New Delhi, culminating in […] The post Xi’s visit and the path toward normalcy in India-China relations appeared first on Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR).