Since June 2020 Galwan Valley clash in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed – there has been no one-on-one meetings between the two leaders
Bali: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met and exchanged pleasantries on Tuesday, November 15, at a welcome dinner hosted by Indonesian President JokoWidodo for G20 delegates a PTI report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
The gesture did not fail to spark media attention as bilateral relations between the two countries had been strained following a border clash along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Galwan Valley, Ladakh in June 2020, in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed.
Speculations were rife about a possible bilateral meeting between the two leaders.
In September, Prime Minister Modi and President Xi came face-to-face at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Uzbek city of Samarkand for the first time since the start of the border standoff in eastern Ladakh.
No separate meeting is believed to have taken place between them there.
Here in Bali, the two leadders greeted each other as Xi walked by and then shook hands followed by a brief conversation towards the end of the dinner.. The dinner was held at the Garuda Wisnu Kencana cultural park in a somewhat informal setting.
Xi had a bilateral meeting Monday with US President Joe Biden, where the two appeared to have struck a conciliatory note, amid tensions over self-ruled Taiwan and other issues.
Modi is here to attend the G20 Summit at the invitation of Indonesian President Widodo.
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