China has confirmed that President Xi Jinping will travel to New Delhi for the Brics summit this weekend, his first visit to India in close to seven years and the latest leg of the Chinese leader’s busiest run of summitry in years.
China’s foreign ministry said Xi would attend the summit at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Xi is expected to have a sit-down with Modi on the sidelines of the summit.
The Chinese president’s visit to India follows closely on a packed diplomatic travel schedule that first took him to Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, and then to Egypt last week for his first state visit there in a decade. He is expected to travel to Washington later this month to meet US President Donald Trump.
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