Xi tells Modi China and India bear huge ‘responsibilities’ in world marked by flux

Intelligence summary

President Xi Jinping told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that as the world’s most populous nations and key members of the Global South, China and India bore “significant responsibilities” in an international landscape “fraught with turbulence and change”. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Brics summit in New Delhi, where trade, investment, the long-running border dispute and the normalisation of ties took centre stage. In his opening remarks, Xi also said that although