Xi's Delhi visit signals India-China thaw as Brics seeks unity amid global tensions

Seven years after his last visit and six years after soldiers from both nations died in a Himalayan border clash, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Delhi to honour guards and traditional dancers — a choreographed signal that two nuclear-armed rivals are choosing, however cautiously, the path of reconciliation. The occasion was the Brics summit, a gathering of eleven nations representing half the world's population, each carrying its own vision of what a post-Western global order might look like. India and China, the bloc's two largest members, share a stage but not a script: one seeks to