♤ May 2015: P.M. Modi visited China. His first stop is Xian, Xi’s home town, after which he’ll

head to Beijing.

♤ October 2016: P.M. Modi meets Chinese president Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Goa BRICS Summit.

♤ May 2017: India declines Chinese invitation to attend the Belt and Road Initiative summit in Beijing and issues a detailed statement listing its objections.

♤ 8-9 June 2017: India admitted to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full-member along with Pakistan. Modi meets Chinese president Xi Jinping and thanks for his country’s support for India’s full membership in SCO.

1.2. Boundary Question and Territorial Integrity

♤ despite over 30 years of regular dialogues, Sino-Indian border issues remain complicated and difficult.

♤ China continues to be in illegal occupation of approximately 38,000 sq. kms. in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. In addition, under the so-called `Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963`, Pakistan illegally ceded 5180 sq. kms. of Indian territory in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir to China.

♤ China honed its "salami tactics" in the Himalayas in the 1950s, when it grabbed the Aksai Chin plateau by surreptitiously building a strategic highway through that unguarded region. Aksai Chin, part of the original princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, provided China with the only passageway between its restive regions of Tibet and Xinjiang.