India, Aug. 20 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday amid an effort to improve India-China relations.

Wang Yi handed over the invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit being held in Tianjin.

They discussed advanced military and diplomatic issues after the 2020 border standoff in eastern Ladakh.

Modi stressed the importance of "maintaining peace and tranquillity on the border, and reiterated India's commitment to a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable resolution of the boundary question", according to a statement by the government.

The meeting comes amid the imposition of hefty tariffs by US PresidentDon...