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The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China and Japan from August 29 to September 1.
According to the MEA, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has invited PM Modi to attend the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit in Japan from August 29 to August 30.
This will be PM Modi’s eighth visit to Japan and the first Summit with Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba.
“During the visit, the two Prime Ministers will review the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan, including defense and security, trade and economy, technology and innovation, and people to people exchanges, as well as discuss issues of regional and global importance,” the MEA said in a statement.
“The visit will reaffirm the longstanding special bond of friendship between the two countries,” it added.
PM Modi to take part in SCO summit in China
From August 31 to September 1, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to China from Japan to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin.
The presidents of more than 20 nations will attend the summit, which is scheduled for August 31.
“In the second leg of his visit, at the invitation of the President of China, H.E. Xi Jinping, Prime Minister will travel to China from 31 August to 1 September 2025 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin,” the ministry said.
“On the sidelines of the Summit, Prime Minister is expected to hold bilateral meetings with several leaders attending the Summit,” it added.
President Xi Jinping visited India in 2019 for a second informal summit aimed at resolving the fallout from the Doklam standoff in 2017, after Modi’s most recent trip to China in 2018 was for an informal summit with him at Wuhan in April and then for the SCO Summit in Qingdao in June.
Following skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops in the Ladakh sector of the LAC in April-May 2020 and violent clashes in the Galwan Valley in June that claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese troops, bilateral ties fell to their lowest point in 60 years within months of Xi’s visit.
On October 21, 2024, the two sides came to an agreement to terminate the LAC standoff. Two days later, Modi and Xi met in Kazan, Russia, where they decided to resurrect a number of mechanisms to normalize relations and resolve the boundary dispute.
Source: IE
