Beijing summit: Xi-Trump tango must wake Delhi up to a new geopolitical reality

Former R&AW chief Vikram Sood, in his latest book The Great Power Game, offers a revealing image from the 2022 G20 Summit in Bali. This was their first meeting after Joe Biden became President in January 2021, and it happened soon after the China-US stand-off following Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. “The meeting had the usual Chinese theatre when Xi Jinping arrived outside the conference room, planted himself firmly in front of the Chinese flag and waited. Then Xi watched Biden trundle across a long hotel lobby and the two shook hands vigorously. The Chinese leader was enacting ‘li’,…