Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India and China understand each other much better following his meetings with President Xi Jinping.

"Our informal summit in Wuhan in April this year was a new initiative," Modi said in an interview to the Times of India published on Sunday. "It allowed us to talk to each other in a very frank manner and to understand each other much better." Modi's comments came one year after Indian and Chinese troops were locked in a stand-off for over two months on the Doklam plateau at the India-Bhutan-China international trijunction last year.