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

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A commentary argues that Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi cannot resolve the India-China divide through personal diplomacy alone. Although their meeting on the BRICS summit sidelines included discussion of shared interests such as open-weight AI, the article says tensions and structural imbalances remain.

Last month, President Xi Jinping travelled to New Delhi to attend the Brics summit – his first visit in seven years. On the summit’s sidelines, Xi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had an in-depth conversation that explored topics of shared interest between them, such as leveraging open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) for mutual benefit. Even so, such sanguine signals were soon drowned out by a spate of downbeat headlines. One recent story warned of the “asymmetric” relationship...