Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first formal talks in five years, signalling that ties between the Asian giants damaged by a deadly military clash in 2020 had begun to recover. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit on Wednesday in the Russian city of Kazan, the Indian government and Chinese state media said, two days after New Delhi announced that it had reached a deal with Beijing to resolve the four-year military stand-off on their disputed Himalayan frontier.
