Modi and Xi can’t bridge the India-China divide by themselves

Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to New Delhi last month to attend the BRICS summit, marking his first visit to India in seven years.

On the sidelines of the summit, Xi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an in-depth conversation exploring topics of shared interest, including leveraging open-weight artificial intelligence.

Despite this high-level engagement between the two leaders, analyses indicate that Modi and Xi alone cannot bridge the broader geopolitical divide between India and China.