The upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea coming Thursday is more than a bilateral tete-a-tete—it is a defining moment in the shifting geopolitical landscape of Asia, with profound implications for India’s strategic calculus.

Set against South Korea’s geopolitical fault lines, the meeting will address critical issues ranging from trade tensions and technology rivalry to security concerns around the Korean Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific. For India, situated at the nexus of these global currents, the outcome of this high-profile encounter will resonate far beyond diplomatic formalities.

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First, the Trump-Xi dialogue signals a potential recalibration of US-China relations, which have oscillated between cooperation an

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