The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is billed as a counterweight to U.S. global influence. Talks between Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are expected Tuesday.

India and China are tangled in yet another border dispute, angering locals in the eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Another big difference is in how China builds up expertise about the outside world. Until 2022 research about a country or region was spread across disciplines—a scholar might study India in the department of history before taking a doctorate in political science.

Trade between India and China has nearly doubled in five years, leaving New Delhi with a widening deficit and a difficult choice over how to build its industrial future.

Satellite imagery and local accounts show rapid Chinese infrastructure expansion and military advancement in disputed Himalayan border areas, forcing indigenous communities to retreat from ancestral lands.

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As part of the BRICS Summit 2026, PM Modi will hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He will meet Abiy Ahmed Ali, PM of Ethiopia, and will also meet Anwar Ibrahim, PM of Malaysia.

Xu Feihong talked about handling differences and mutual cooperation in a post on X hours before Xi Jinping’s visit to India for the BRICS Summit on Saturday.