PM Narendra Modi, China's President Xi Jinping, Brazil's President Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov posed for a group photo at BRICS Summit in Johannesburg. PM Modi and Jinping had a brief conversation in Bali in 2022 during the G20 summit. To note, Indo-China ties deteriorated after the Galwan clash in 2020.