On 5 September , Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping held hour-long discussions on the sidelines of the BRICS summit . They agreed on a " forward-looking " approach and vowed to make efforts to ensure that situations like the Doklam standoff do not recur . They reaffirmed that maintaining peace and traniquillity in the border areas was essential for the relations between the two countries
BRICS summit
9th BRICS summit
2017 China–India border standoff