China, India ought to work in the direction of ‘win-win’ cooperation: Chinese language FM
by AFP Employees Writers
Beijing (AFP) July 15, 2025
Chinese language Overseas Minister Wang Yi stated Monday that Beijing and New Delhi ought to work in the direction of mutual belief and “win-win” cooperation, after talks together with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, state information company Xinhua reported.
China and India ought to “adhere to the route of good-neighborliness and friendship” and “discover a manner for mutual respect and belief, peaceable coexistence, widespread improvement and win-win cooperation”, Wang stated, in response to Xinhua.
The 2 overseas ministers met in Beijing on Monday as the 2 rivals search to restore ties following a 2020 conflict on their border.
The world’s two most populous nations are intense rivals competing for strategic affect throughout South Asia, and their 3,500-kilometre (2,200-mile) frontier has been a perennial supply of pressure.
The 2020 conflict between their troops led to a four-year navy standoff, however they agreed in October on patrols in disputed areas.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping met for the primary time in 5 years later that month, agreeing to work on enhancing relations.
New Delhi is anxious over Beijing’s rising presence within the Indian Ocean, seeing the area as firmly inside its sphere of affect.
One other supply of pressure is the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan religious chief India has hosted since he and 1000’s of different Tibetans fled Chinese language troops who crushed an rebellion of their capital Lhasa in 1959.
The 90-year-old Dalai Lama says solely his India-based organisation has the appropriate to determine his eventual successor.
China insists that it could have remaining say on who succeeds the Tibetan religious chief.
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