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News18 | 16/09/2022 11:19 PM | Click to read full article
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for improving connectivity at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit held in Uzbekistan's Samarkand, he maintained a safe distance from Xi Jinping, the President of India's northern neighbour China.
The tension along the Indo-China border was evident from the distance that the two leaders maintained from each other at the summit.