G20 Summit 2017: PM Modi praises Xi's BRICS leadership

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Amid a border standoff between their armies and a day after either side had rejected the possibility of a ‘pull aside’ meeting between their two leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday shook hands on the sidelines of an informal BRICS leaders’ meeting. Both are in Hamburg to attend the G20 Summit.

In a tweet, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said Modi and Xi discussed "a range of issues" at the BRICS leaders' informal gathering in Hamburg "hosted by China." Baglay didn’t elaborate on the details, or whether the military standoff between China and