Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping sitting by the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad, during the Chinese President’s visit in 2014. An official, however, said Mr. Modi’s “visit is being worked on, and there maybe some announcement in the next week itself”. High-level visitsDiplomatic sources told The Hindu that an “unofficial” or unscheduled bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping was first proposed at an informal meeting between Indian and Chinese officials on the sidelines of the Davos summit in January. Ms. Swaraj and Ms. Sitharaman, who will be in Beijing to attend ministerial meetings for the SCO, are the first senior Ministers to visit China since Mr. Modi’s previous visit for the BRICS summit in Xiamen. When The Hindu contacted the Ministry and the Chinese Embassy in Delhi for a comment on the proposed visit, neither officially denied nor confirmed the Prime Minister’s plans to visit China.

Source: The Hindu April 14, 2018 16:41 UTC