Beijing> China said that improving relations with India is good for both nations, and since a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year, both countries have started to steadily fix their relationship. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday that better Sino-Indian relations are a shared goal and the result of both sides working together. They mentioned there was no secret diplomacy between the two nations, only normal communication and interaction.
Bloomberg News reported that in March, Beijing quietly reached out to New Delhi to see how things could improve. President Xi wrote a letter to India’s President Droupadi Murmu expressing worries about any US agreements that might hurt China’s interests, according to an official in New Delhi. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the meeting between Xi and Modi in Kazan, Russia, in October last year helped restart the relationship. They added that the relevant authorities in China and India have been carefully carrying out the important agreements made by the leaders, restoring institutional dialogue, and carrying out normal exchanges.
Since then, the relationship between Beijing and New Delhi has moved faster. Both countries have started working to resolve a border issue, and Modi is making his first trip to China in seven years this weekend. Both nations have been affected by President Donald Trump’s trade war. India recently faced 50% tariffs on its exports to the US. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said China is ready to work with India to approach and manage their relationship from a strategic and long-term point of view.Modi is expected to have a bilateral meeting with Xi during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, which is happening in Tianjin on August 31 to September 1.
Modi has said he is committed to working with other SCO members to face shared challenges and increase regional cooperation. He is also set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the same summit.In a Friday editorial, the state-run newspaper Global Times said that the improved relationship between the two countries makes strategic and economic sense and is connected to major changes in the world’s geopolitical situation. The newspaper said that today, as the “twin engines” of Asia’s economic growth and key members of groups like the Global South, SCO, BRICS, and G20, China and India have a shared mission to push the international order toward greater democracy and fairness.
