The iconic selfie taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese premier Li Keqiang during his May 2015 visit to China is being hailed by western media as one of the most "power-packed selfies in history". Within days it received over 32 million hits on Modi's account on Chinese social media Weibo. The selfie taken in the backdrop of Temple of Heaven in central Beijing was immediately liked on Facebook by its founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The Walt Street Journal, in a news report titled 'Did Modi Just Take the Most Powerful Seine in History'.' said that the prime ministers of the world's two biggest countries leaned on each other ...for what may be the most politically power-packed self.e in history."