Dainik Jagran, the main Indian newspaper, in Hindi, and others highlighted on Sunday that the prime minister “Narendra Modi will share the stage with Vladimir Putin, Xi Xinping and Shahbaz Sharif”, this prime minister of Pakistan.
It will be next Thursday (15), at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in Uzbekistan. 15 heads of state are confirmed (below), including the Turkish Recep Erdogan and the Iranian Ebrahim Raisi, as reported in newspapers in their countries.
According to Jagran, in addition to the one with Putin, “a meeting could take place between Modi and Xi.” But for now “nothing has been said, officially or not, on whether Modi will meet with Sharif”, the meeting considered the most difficult.
Regarding Modi and Xi, the biggest obstacle to the bilateral meeting was toppled at the end of the week, according to the newspaper. In the Reuters news report, “India and China will withdraw from disputed border area until Monday”, the 12th. The agency also links the military withdrawal to the presence of Modi and Xi in Uzbekistan.
In a parallel move to the India-China deal, but in the opposite direction, Joe Biden’s US announced a maintenance program for Pakistan’s US fighter jets, in the first bilateral military agreement in four years, according to the Hindustan Times.
In another simultaneous move, closing the week, “India withdraws from trade talks with US-led Indo-Pacific group”, on Bloomberg. The country says it wants to “avoid any conditions that cause harm to developing countries”.
A LEADER OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Writing in the Economist, American consultant Ian Bremmer predicts India’s growing rapprochement with China and its distancing from the US. He believes India will also be “a leader of the Global South”, arguing that “today it is allied with American efforts to contain China, but there are too many commercial opportunities to be had in China and Russia to ignore”.
THE THIRD ECONOMY
The Times of India highlighted that the SBI, an institution linked to the Indian central bank, predicts that the country’s economy will be the third in the world in seven years, after the USA and China, passing Germany and Japan – in addition to the United Kingdom, which ends to stay behind.
DEVASTATING, HUMILIATING ETC.
With the above photo at the top of Izium’s home page, the New York Times headlined the takeover of the city as a “devastating blow to the Kremlin” and perhaps the turning point in the war.
The Washington Post’s website ended Sunday with the headline that “White House alarm grows over Europe after Putin threatens energy supply”.
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