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India and China should view each other as “partners” rather than “opponents and threats,” Chinese Foreign Minister Van YI said on Monday when he arrived on a two -day visit to Delhi.
Yi met with India’s Foreign Minister Seshenkar – only the second such meeting between the two sides since 2020 – if Deadly contractions In the Galvan Valley in Lada, the controversial border region of the Himalaya led to a complete break between the countries.
Currently, relations are in a “positive tendency” to cooperate, Yi said on the eve of the meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.
Yashankar said India and China sought “to go ahead from a difficult period in our ties.”
Both colleagues conducted a discussion on a number of bilateral issues: from trade to pilgrimage and exchange.
It is also planned to meet with the Indian National Security Advisor Adjusted for Permanent negotiations on resolving the border between the two countries.
The visit is seen as the last sign of thaw in ties between nuclear armed neighbors.
India and China agreed to patrol agreements to the de -scalp tensions Along the disputed Himalayan border last October.
Since then, both sides have taken a number of steps to normalize relations, including in China, allowing Indian pilgrims to visit key places in Tibet’s offline region this year. India also restarted visa services to Chinese tourists and agreed to resume negotiations with open border trade through designated passes.
There are also reports that direct flights between the two countries will be restored this year.
The Yi meetings are expected to put the basis of Modi’s first visit to China seven years later this month to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), regional security bloc.
The reports believe that Modi may also conduct bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but none of the parties have confirmed it.
The rapprochement between the countries is on the background of the deterioration of India’s bilateral relations with the United States.
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump introduced An additional 25% punishment For Indian imports for oil and weapons purchase in Russia, attracting total tariffs up to 50% – the highest in Asia.
On Monday, the White House Trade Advisor, Peter Navaro, wrote his opinion in the Financial Times, in which he accused India of “cozy both Russia and China”.
“India acts as global clearing for Russian oil, transforming the embargo into high cost, giving Moscow the dollars it needs,” Navaro wrote.
“If India wants it to be treated as a strategic US partner, it must start acting as one,” he said.
In his statements after meeting with Yi on Monday, Yashankar said the negotiations would include global development.
“We are looking for a fair, balanced and multipolar world order, including multipolar Asia,” Yashanka said.
“Reformed multi -motion is also a call for the day. In today’s conditions, there is clearly the need to maintain and increase stability in the world economy,” he added.
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