{
  "id": 6589300,
  "title": "Can old rivals turn to something more? Five things to know as China’s Xi Jinping returns to India after five years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/can-old-rivals-turn-to-something-more-five-things-to-know-as-chinas",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-10T12:11:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Malay Mail",
    "slug": "malay-mail-malaymail",
    "url": "https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2026/09/10/can-old-rivals-turn-to-something-more-five-things-to-know-as-chinas-xi-jinping-returns-to-india-after-five-years/234746"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit India for a BRICS summit on September 12-13, marking his first trip to the country in over five years. The visit comes after relations between the two nuclear-armed Asian giants have slowly improved following a deadly border clash in 2020. Both India and China retain heavy military deployments along their roughly 3,500-kilometre border along Tibet, with the underlying territorial dispute remaining unresolved. India is China's largest trading partner, but the relationship is heavily tilted towards Beijing, with a US$112 billion trade deficit in 2025-26. Despite efforts to improve ties, deep mistrust remains, with concerns over India's security partnership with the US and China's close relationship with India's rival Pakistan.",
  "summary": "NEW DELHI, Sept 10 — Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to India for a summit on Saturday that could mark the bigg...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}