The dates were announced late and the meeting was dubbed an informal summit, but on October 11-12, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for their second such meeting in Chennai, India. The meeting was President Xi’s first trip abroad since the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1. The first informal summit was held in April 2018 in Wuhan, China, following the tense stand-off between the two rising powers at the disputed border in Doklam in August 2017. While their bilateral ties got a small boost from the face-to-face discussions, a number of issues remain unresolved, including the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, China’s support of Pakistan over the Kashmir dispute at the United Nations Security Council, and the conditions of ASEAN’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) multilateral trade agreement, which India had delayed joining due to domestic opposition. Read the full Policy Alert here.