Amid strained India-US relations and global trade concerns, PM Modi and President Xi Jinping met to strengthen cooperation on trade, terrorism, and regional issues, emphasizing their roles as development partners, not rivals. They reaffirmed strategic autonomy, aiming to resolve border disputes peacefully and boost economic ties while maintaining border tranquility. Post navigation ‘2-system interaction’ may trigger heavy rains in Uttarakhand, Himachal and J&K ‘Highways buried’: Landslides, floods batter Himachal & J&K; pilgrimages halted
