India is getting ready for visits by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with both leaders planning to attend the BRICS summit to be held in Delhi on September 12 and 13, sources here said on Wednesday (July 29, 2026). Consultations are continuing with regard to these upcoming high-level visits.

On Monday (July 27, 2026) and Tuesday (July 28, 2026), Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held a series of talks in Beijing, during which both sides discussed “strengthening high-level interactions”. In recent weeks, Chinese officials have also visited India to oversee the arrangements and security preparations for a possible high-level visit.

During Mr. Misri’s talks in Beijing with a senior Communist Party of China official Sun Haiyan, who is Vice Minister in the party’s International Department, both sides “expressed commitment to working together to follow through on the common understandings reached by the leaders, strengthen high-level interactions, properly manage differences, and make sustained efforts to foster the improvement and development of bilateral relations,” according to a readout from the Chinese side.

The Ministry of External Affairs said both sides had “discussed ways to deepen implementation of the guidance of the leaders for bilateral relations, including addressing issues of priority to both sides and by promoting political, people-to-people, academic and think-tank exchanges.”