{"id":361,"date":"2025-09-01T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:01:18","slug":"pm-modi-xi-jinping-and-putin-share-light-moment-at-sco-summit-in-tianjin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi, Xi Jinping and Putin share light moment at SCO Summit in Tianjin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"486\" data-id=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SCO-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SCO-11.jpg 654w, https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SCO-11-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tianjin, Striking photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s informal interaction with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have surfaced, capturing a light moment shared between the three leaders on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The images showed all three leaders smiling and conversing, reminiscent of a similar photo taken during the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the latest photo, Putin is seen on the left, Prime Minister Modi at the centre, and Xi Jinping on the right, walking together in a relaxed manner to pose for a SCO family photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing the picture on X, PM Modi wrote, &#8220;Interactions in Tianjin continue! Exchanging perspectives with President Putin and President Xi during the SCO Summit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister also posted another image with Russian President Putin, where the two leaders were seen shaking hands and hugging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Modi shared the photo on social media and captioned it, &#8220;Always a delight to meet President Putin!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, PM Modi held talks with Xi Jinping, during which both leaders pledged to address lingering border disputes and enhance cooperation between India and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks the Prime Minister&#8217;s first visit to China since relations between the two neighbouring nations deteriorated following the deadly border clashes in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting comes amid a gradual stabilisation of India-China ties after the leadership of both nations reached an understanding in Russia in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That breakthrough was achieved following an agreement on new patrolling protocols along the 3,500-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC), which helped defuse a tense standoff that had persisted for nearly four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This latest round of interactions also takes place against the backdrop of the West&#8217;s efforts to diplomatically isolate Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine and amid renewed tariff threats from the United States, adding further geopolitical weight to the three-way engagement at the SCO platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts reckon that the coming together of PM Modi, Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin could prove &#8220;symbolic&#8221; in reshaping the global order in light of Washington&#8217;s tariff threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tianjin, Striking photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s informal interaction with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have surfaced, capturing a light moment shared between the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-display","category-international","category-top-news","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}