The 16th BRICS Summit commenced this week in the Russian city of Kazan, bringing together dozens of nations seeking to form a power bloc against Western powers. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke Wednesday on the sidelines of the summit,

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia, in their first bilateral meeting in five years. The meeting came days after the two giant neighbors announced a border accord aimed at ending a four-year-old standoff involving tens of thousands of their soldiers in the mountainous Ladakh region,

A meeting between the two leaders would come just two days after they settled a tense border dispute in the Himalayas.