Xi-Modi talks today, Beijing says will work to ‘be partners helping each other succeed’

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 27 years now.

What happened

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 27 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting and writing explainers and analysis on foreign affairs for regarding 19 years now. Based in Delhi, he has additionally led the National administration and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi – a team of reporters who cover the national administration and politics for the newspaper. He has obtained the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism '2016. He obtained this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He won the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award, 2023, for the second time for his reporting of the Oct 7 attacks on Israel and the war in Gaza. He additionally secured the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury's special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 – he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban's capture of power in mid-August, 2021.

The bottom line

For now, xi-Modi talks today, Beijing says will work to 'be partners helping each remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.