China’s Xi Jinping to make first trip to India in 7 years for Brics summit

Intelligence summary

China has confirmed that President Xi Jinping will travel to New Delhi for the Brics summit this weekend, his first visit to India in close to seven years and the latest leg of the Chinese leader’s busiest run of summitry in years. Xi’s India visit follows closely on a packed diplomatic travel schedule that took him first to Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, then to Egypt last week for this first state visit there in a decade. He is expected to travel to...