India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has described talks with Vladimir Putin as “insightful” after the two leaders spent about 45 minutes together in the Russian president’s armoured limousine during a regional summit in China.
The unusual meeting took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in the port city of Tianjin, where Mr Modi and Mr Putin joined China’s president Xi Jinping for discussions seen as a counterweight to US influence in Asia. Photographs released from the summit showed the three leaders walking together in an apparent show of unity.
