00:00Prime Minister Modi is all set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping during his first visit to China in seven years.
00:06The talks come at a time of global economic turmoil and Trump tariff rao.
00:10But to understand what is at stake, we must look back.
00:14From Wuhan to Mallapuram, from Galwan to Briggs, the Modi-Xi story that has swung between Bonhomi and Great Town.
00:22Can Tianjin mark a reset is the big question.
00:30Two Asian giants meet again.
00:47Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks in Tianjin on August 31st.
00:54This is Prime Minister Modi's first visit to China since the Galwan Clash of 2020, which pushed bilateral ties to their lowest in decades.
01:05But this is not the first time the two leaders have sought to reset relations.
01:09In 2019, Xi Jinping travelled to the historic coastal town of Mamalapuram for the second India-China Informer Summit.
01:21Images of Modi and Xi visiting ancient monuments sent strong optics of civilizational bonding.
01:27Just a year earlier, the two leaders had held their first Informer Summit in Wuhan.
01:37The Wuhan consensus was built as a reset in ties, stressing that differences must not turn into disputes amid Doklam standoff tensions.
01:49Modi's first major visit to China came in 2015.
01:52The chemistry was on display.
01:55Modi became the first world leader to be received by Xi in his hometown, Xi'an.
02:03Then came the Galwan Clash in 2020, breaking the fragile trust.
02:09For two years, Modi and Xi had no substantive engagement.
02:13A brief handshake at the G20 summit in Bali in 2022 marked Prime Minister Modi's first public contact with Xi Jinping since Galwan.
02:25A year later, in Johannesburg, another brief conversation on the sidelines of BRICS signaled the need for continued dialogue.
02:35Their last meeting came in October 2024 at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.
02:40That need helped pushed forward disengagement at Friction Point in Ladakh.
02:51From Mamala Purim's optics to Galwan's rupture, the Modi-Xi story swings between smiles and standoffs.
02:59All eyes now on Tianjin.
03:01Can this reset really hold?
03:04Bureau Report, India Today.
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