With heavy security, a freshly painted wall, and banana tree-lined roads, the tourist town of Mamallapuram, a suburb of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, is all set to host Asia's two important leaders -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping for the second informal summit. The first summit took place in Wuhan, China and focus in this year's summit will be to keep the momentum that was generated from last year's summit. The Chinese President will then be driving down to the suburb from Chennai and will soon be joined by Prime Minister Modi. Saturday, both will meet again and after the lunch, President Xi leaves for Nepal, the first visit by a Chinese President in decades. Since it's an informal summit, no joint statement is expected but both sides will issue separate statements in a coordinated manner.

Source: dna October 10, 2019 18:22 UTC