The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the margins of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit made a big splash in China Daily, one of the leading Chinese newspapers.
Front Page Headline
A story on the meeting was on the front page of the paper with the title ‘Partnership seen as key to Sino-Indian relations.’
The article referred to the encounter of PM Modi with Xi Jinping as “much-anticipated” and outlined the talks and subsequent statements given by the two leaders.
The PM Modi and Xi Jinping article, which appeared in the September 1 edition of the paper, was the sole one that was based on an SCO summit meeting between two countries’ leaders. The article was also one of the first to appear on the daily’s website.
On the same paper, page 12 had an editorial titled ‘Neighbors’ cooperative pas de deux will be salient boon for Global South.’ The article stated that the summit between the two leaders sent a strong message that reads, “Collaboration, not confrontation, is the path to a shared future.”
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PM Modi and Xi Jinping Meet
In the coastal city of Tianjin on the margins of the margins of the SCO Summit, PM Modi and Xi Jinping sat down after nearly a year, the previous such meeting being in Kazan in Russia.
India and China had then declared a breakthrough in talks to end their face-off in Ladakh’s Depsang and Demchok.
Since the two leaders saw each other again after some months, Xi Jinping informed PM Modi that the countries shouldn’t allow boundary questions to shape their relationship. “As long as the two nations are partners and not competitors and view each other as opportunities for development instead of threats, China-India relations will prosper and keep going steadily,” Xinhua, a Chinese news agency, quoted Xi as saying.
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Leaders Commit to Boundary Settlement
PM Modi also emphasized peace and quiet on the border and development of relations between the two nations. As per Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, PM Modi told Xi that peace at the border is an “insurance policy” for bilateral relations, which would affect the overall relationship.
“Both of them reiterated commitment to a reasonable, fair, and mutually acceptable settlement of the boundary issue based on the political thinking of their overall bilateral relations and long-term interests of the two peoples.” PM Modi insisted that India was ready to take relations with China forward on the basis of mutual trust, respect, and sensitivity
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