India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Tianjin, China, on Sunday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi was committed to improving ties with China in a key meeting with President Xi Jinping on Sunday, as both leaders discussed the need to expand trade and investment ties against the backdrop of U.S. tariffs .

Modi is in China for the first time in seven years to attend a two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders from Central, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East, in a show of Global South solidarity.

The meeting comes days after Washington imposed 50 per cent tariffs on Ind

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