NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has complained to China’s visiting president about border incursions, the government said on Thursday, as tensions on the remote mountainous frontier between Asia’s two superpowers threatened to overshadow a crucial summit.

As Xi Jinping hailed the potential of stronger ties between China and India to bring “peace and prosperity” to 2.5 billion people, local media reported that hundreds of troops were engaged in a stand-off in the northern Ladakh region.

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