SCO opens 'new page' in China-India ties: Globaltimes

[Theparadox]

The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit over the weekend will open a new page for China-India relations as the two countries agree to move bilateral ties forward, a Chinese analyst said Sunday.

As he greeted leaders to the SCO summit on Sunday in the coastal city of Qingdao, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a special welcome to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain for participating in the summit for the first time.

The summit is the first after a membership expansion. India and Pakistan were accepted as full members of the SCO in 2017 during a summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.

"This is a sign that China and India will use the good momentum to promote bilateral relations in a comprehensive way," Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of International Relations, told the Global Times on Sunday.

Xi and Modi held a meeting on Saturday in Qingdao and agreed to take their April meeting in Wuhan as a new starting point to promote bilateral relations, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

China is willing to work with India to take the Wuhan meeting as a new starting point to continuously enhance political mutual trust and engage in mutually beneficial cooperation, so as to push forward China-India relations in a better, faster and steadier manner, Xi said.

Describing the informal meeting with Xi in Wuhan as "very successful and important," Modi said Saturday that it has further reinforced his confidence in India-China relations, and will certainly be a milestone in the history of the bilateral ties.

India-China cooperation is of great significance to world peace and prosperity, and India is ready to advance the bilateral relations on the basis of the Wuhan meeting, Modi said.

In his speech at the 17th Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), a multilateral platform on Asia-Pacific defense and security last week, Modi stressed that India does not consider the Indo-Pacific region an exclusive club, and that India's vision for the Indo-Pacific region is a positive one, CNBC reported.

"Modi's remarks run counter to the US' offer to be used as a pawn to contain China, and the Indo-Pacific strategy faces difficulties without India's role," Hu said.

China and India eye peaceful cooperation instead of a zero-sum game, and the SCO summit is a chance for the two to expand consensus and manage disagreements, Hu added.

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[Theparadox]

India, China agree to boost people-to-people relations

Modi had met Mr Xi in April in an unprecedented two-day “heart-to-heart” summit in Wuhan to “solidify” the India-China relationship.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds bilateral meeting with Chinsese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: Twitter/@narendramodi)
Qingdao (China): India and China have decided to set up a new “people to people mechanism” to build on the momentum in bilateral ties from the Wuhan Summit, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks on Saturday during their second meeting in nearly six weeks.

The decision to step up people to people contacts was announced by foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale during a press briefing after the meeting between the two leaders in this coastal city of China where the Prime Minister Modi has arrived for the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

Mr Modi had met Mr Xi in April in an unprecedented two-day “heart-to-heart” summit in Wuhan to “solidify” the India-China relationship after the Dokalam standoff last year. During their summit, they had held a candid exchange of views in a relaxing and friendly atmosphere on topics related to international relations, China-India relations and cooperation in various areas and reached important consensus.

 

[saltyashell]

All talk. Both countries wont change a degree of their directions.Geopolitically china and india are not meant to be friends. Its the calm before the storm. I see a armed conflict between the two in the next 5 years.
Popcorn time.

 

[T-Rex]

The big storm will take place either in ME or SCS. The US won't allow india to confront China on this front.

 

[Dalit]

LOL I truly wish this was true.

India is shackled to US partnership. As long as India remains part of US camp it can never genuinely have an independent foreign policy.

 

[Rajesh Singh]

LOL I truly wish this was true.

India is shackled to US partnership. As long as India remains part of US camp it can never genuinely have an independent foreign policy.

Sir ji, you are mistaking again...
We have independent foreign policy unlike Pakistan. For us, our national interest comes first and we are not is any camp.

We are in our camp.... We will maintain good and trusted friendship with Russia and will maintain a good relationship with west..... Even we will try to maintain good relationship with China....