The leaders meet for an hour in Tianjin on the Indian prime minister’s first trip to China in seven years. TIANJIN: The world’s two most populous countries need to be friends, Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (Aug 31). Meeting on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, Xi told Modi that the two countries could be good neighbours and play a key part in the Global South,