CutTheClutter: Modi-Putin car ride, India-China thaw at SCO & Trump’s tariff signal: Untangling geopolitical

The SCO summit ended Monday with the Tianjin declaration which condemned Pahalgam & Jaffar express terror attacks. During his visit to China, PM Modi held crucial bilateral meetings with Xi Jinping & Putin. The bonhomie between Putin-Xi-Modi was on display with leaders holding hands, and the Russian President’s car ride with PM Modi. Just hours after the meetings in China, Trump termed US-India trade a ‘one-sided disaster’, and said that India has now offered to cut the tariffs to ‘nothing’. Tonight’s #CutTheClutter with Shekhar Gupta untangles the geopolitical games— from China to Moscow, and explains where India stands.