Putin And India’s Prime Minister Were Seen Holding Hands To Go Meet China’s President Xi Jinping
The meeting has drawn attention to the close relationship between Russian president Vladimir Putin, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Xi, with Modi and Putin walking hand in hand to meet Xi, with some calling it a “bromance.”
The leaders of Russia, India and China met at a summit in China, challenging the US with a new world order.
On Monday, Sep. 1, China’s President Xi Jinping held the Shanghai Cooperation Summit (SCO) with major countries such as Russia, India, Pakistan and Belarus coming together to improve political, security and economic relations among Eurasian countries and forming a strong alliance against the US, which has put high tariffs on most of these countries.
Xi said that China is opposed to the “Cold War mentality, bloc confrontation and bullying,” referring to the trade war led by the US.
The meeting has drawn attention to the close relationship between Russian president Vladimir Putin, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Xi, with Modi and Putin walking hand in hand to meet Xi, with some calling it a “bromance.”
A video that went viral then showed the three leaders huddled in a circle after being joined by their interpreters.
Modi later posted a photo on X showing him and Putin traveling together in a car, saying, “President Putin and I travelled together to the venue of our bilateral meeting. Conversations with him are always insightful.”
Modi said the summit was “a guiding light for multilateralism and an inclusive world order,” which would lift developing countries.
Putin, meanwhile, said the summit is an attempt “to create a new, more effective and functional system of global governance.”
There has been growing tension between India and the US due to the US imposing increasing tariffs on India to sanction it after it purchased Russian oil.
US President Donald Trump criticized India on his platform Truth Social, on the same day, accusing it of maintaining high tariffs and saying that the trade relationship between the US and India was “totally one-sided.”
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