Forget About The Trump - Putin Face-Off. I Am Going To Be Looking At Chinese President Xi And Indian Prime Minister Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with China's President Xi Jinping during the BRICS leaders' meeting in October 2016. (AFP File Photo)

Bloomberg: Himalayan Stand-Off Makes for an Awkward G-20 for Xi and Modi

* Xi and Modi will meet at BRICS event on sidelines of G-20
* Comes amid renewal of tensions over their disputed border

Things could get a little awkward when Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi see each other on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting in Germany.

Far from the plush leaders events in Hamburg, China and India are facing the resurgence of a decades-long dispute over a remote area of the Himalayas. The interruption of summits by such tensions is a regular event, but both sides are now invoking memories of a 1962 border war in which Maoist China defeated newly-independent India.

While the latest flareup is likely to be resolved diplomatically, it adds to an increasingly fraught relationship between the nuclear powers as they jostle for influence in South Asia. India’s fast-growing economy is fueling its ambitions and ties to the west, while Beijing is asserting territorial claims in the East China Sea, South China Sea and remote Himalayan passes.

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