# Indian prime minister Narendra Modi described his long-awaited meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping as fruitful. The two met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin on Sunday. India and China face stiff US tariffs under president Donald Trump’s global trade war, as well as Western scrutiny over their relationships with Russia. Modi, who is in China for the first time in seven years, says India is committed to taking their countries’ relations forward based on mutual trust and respect.
India committed to building relations with China based on trust and respect