Improved momentum in China-India ties should be cherished with great care: Wang Yi to EAM
China and India should adhere to the direction of good-neighborliness and friendship, and find a way for mutual respect and trust, peaceful coexistence, common development and win-win cooperation, he said, according to a Chinese readout.
Wang Yi said that the current international landscape had evolved profoundly, and that unilateral protectionism and acts of power bullying had brought serious challenges to the world. As two major Eastern civilizations and major emerging economies living side by side, the essence of Sino-Indian relations is how to live in harmony and achieve mutual success.
Last year's meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi in Kazan reached an important consensus, pointing the way for the improvement and development of Sino-Indian relations. Both sides should choose to stand on high ground, plan for the long term, adhere to the direction of good-neighbourliness and friendship, realize 'the dragon and the elephant dance together', and find a way for the two countries to live together with mutual respect and trust, peaceful coexistence, common development, and win-win cooperation.
Wang Yi said that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India, and that China-India relations maintain a momentum of improved development, which is hard-won and worth cherishing. Relations between the two countries have their own historical logic and endogenous dynamics, and they are not directed at third parties, nor should they be interfered with by them, he added.
They should trust each other rather than suspect each other, cooperate with each other rather than compete with each other, and achieve each other rather than consume each other. Wang Yi said China is willing to work together with India to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, reflect the strategic vision of emerging and developing countries, consistently enhance political mutual trust, expand exchanges and cooperation halfway, properly handle conflicts and differences from the overall situation, and cooperate with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Strengthen cooperation and cooperation on other multilateral stages to promote the sustained, healthy and stable development of China-India relations.
Wang Yi said that President Xi Jinping proposed to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and Prime Minister Modi advocated 'one world, one family'. These concepts are connected with each other.
Both China and India support multilateralism and hope that the international order will develop in a more just and reasonable direction.
China is ready to strengthen communication and coordination with India to jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system, the international environment of stability and open cooperation in the global chain of production and supply, promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization, and work together to safeguard the common interests of the 'Global South' and promote regional peace, stability, development and prosperity, he said.
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