Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday that India and China should see each other as “partners” as “partners” instead of “partners”, as they had arrived for a two-day visit to Delhi.
Yi met Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar – only second such meeting between the two sides since 2020 – when a disputed Himalayan border area Ladakh had a complete breakdown of ties between countries, in Galwan Valley.
Relationships are now on “positive trend” towards cooperation, Yi said before a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.
Jaishankar said that India and China were demanding “proceeding from a difficult period in our relations”.
Both counterparts discussed a series of bilateral issues from trade to pilgrimage and river data sharing.
Yi also met India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to talk on resolving the border dispute between the two countries on Tuesday.
“We are happy to share that stability is now restored on boundaries,” Yi said during a delegation-level meeting with the dow.
“The failure we faced in the last few years were not in our interest,” he said.
Yi’s journey is being seen as the latest sign of a melting in relationships between nuclear-cosmetics neighbors.
India and China agreed to arrange the patrolling to increase tension with the disputed Himalayan border in October last year.
Since then, the two sides have taken several steps to normalize the relationship, including China, allowing Indian pilgrims to visit prominent places in the Tibet Autonomous Region this year. India has also resumed visa services to Chinese tourists and has agreed to resume negotiations to open border trade through the nominated pass.
There are also reports that direct flights between the two countries will start again this year.
The YI meetings are expected to perform ground tasks for Modi’s first visit to China at the end of this month at the end of this month, a regional security block to participate in the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Reports show that Modi can also hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but no party has confirmed this.
India comes under the backdrop of India’s deteriorating bilateral relations with the US.
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump imposed an additional 25% fine on Indian imports to buy oil and weapons from Russia, taking the total tariffs up to 50% – most in Asia.
On Monday, the White House trade advisor Peter Navarro wrote a piece of opinion in the Financial Times in which he accused India of “caressing both Russia and China”.
Navaro wrote, “India acts as a global clearinghouse for Russian oil, which changes raw rawness in high-value exports during dollar needs to Moscow.”
“If India wants to behave as a strategic partner of America, he must start working like one,” he said.
In his comment after a meeting with Yi on Monday, Jaishankar said that global development would be involved in the talks.
“We seek a fair, balanced and multi-polar world system, including a multi-polar Asia,” said Jaishankar.
He said, “Improved multilateralism is also a day’s call. In the present environment, there is also clarity to maintain and increase stability in the global economy,” he said.
