<h1>Prime Minister visits China for SCO summit, meets leaders to stabilise ties, reopen border trade and resume flights</h1> The prime minister will visit China from August 31 to September 1 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, following a two-day trip to Japan from August 29-30. On the summit sidelines, the prime minister is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with the Chinese president and other leaders to discuss measures to stabilise and advance bilateral ties, including frontier de-escalation, reopening border trade, and resuming direct flights. The visit, the first to China in over seven years, follows recent diplomatic steps after deadly 2020 troop clashes in eastern Ladakh and comes amid wider geopolitical strains, including recent tariff escalations affecting relations with the United States.