Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s embrace of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin on Monday — his first visit to China in seven years — is getting a lot of attention, and rightly so.
The cordial atmosphere and optics sent a clear message to Washington: India won’t be bullied by the Trump administration or given an ultimatum on trade or security.
But Modi’s visit to Tokyo the week before was, arguably, more productive when it came to high-level cooperation. It was reported that the two countries “agreed to significantly ramp up cooperation in a number of areas, including trade, security and people exchanges.”
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