Tianjin [China], August 31 (ANI): Chinese state media on Sunday gave wide coverage to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit highlighting President Xi Jinping’s remarks about the significant step that he said will boost bilateral relations on the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between India and China.
Prime Minister Modi met with Xi Jinping this morning on the sidelines of the SCO Summit. Sharing details of the meeting, the Prime Minister said on X, “Had a fruitful meeting with President Xi Jinping in Tianjin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit. We reviewed the positive momentum in India-China relations since our last meeting in Kazan. We agreed on the importance of maintaining peace and tranquility in border areas and reaffirmed our commitment to cooperation based on mutual respect, mutual interest and mutual sensitivity.”
According to Chinese state-run media outlet Xinhua, Xi welcomed PM Modi to the SCO summit and noted the importance of the two countries to view bilateral ties from a strategic and long-term perspective, pursue a further improvement of ties from the Tianjin meeting onward, and work for its sustained, sound and steady development.
The Chinese President called for strengthening “strategic communication to deepen mutual trust, expand exchanges and win-win cooperation, heed each other’s concerns to seek harmonious coexistence, and enhance multilateral collaboration to safeguard common interests.” The meeting between the two leaders comes amid growing global uncertainty and the decision by US President Donald Trump to impose 50 per cent tariffs on imports from India, including a 25 per cent duty targeting India’s purchase of Russian oil.
Xi stressed that the two Asian neighbours must ensure “peace and tranquillity in their border regions, and should not let the border issue define the overall China-India relations.”
Xinhua further highlighted Xi’s remarks framing India and China as two pillars of the Global South.
Another news outlet, The Global Times reported that, Xi said China and India should become neighbours on good terms and partners helping each other succeed.
A “cooperative pas de deux of the dragon and the elephant” should be the right choice for the two countries, The Global Times reported, quoting Xi’s oft-repeated phrase. The dragon and the elephant and metaphors for China and India.
“China and India are two major ancient civilizations of the East, the two most populous countries in the world, and important members of the Global South. The two countries shoulder the crucial responsibility of improving the well-being of their two peoples, promoting the solidarity and rejuvenation of developing countries, and advancing the progress of human society. It should be the right choice for China and India to be good-neighbourly friends and partners that help each other succeed, and have the dragon and the elephant dance together,” wrote spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Mao Ning on X.
Xi added that the “two sides should view and handle the relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective, pursue a further improvement of ties from the Tianjin meeting onward, and work for its sustained, sound and steady development.”
Apart from state media reports, Chinese journalists covering the summit also commented on the significance of the meeting.
Zhang Xiao, a Hindi-speaking Chinese journalist who introduced herself as “Anjali,” pushed for deeper cooperation between the two nations. Speaking in fluent Hindi, she said, “We are neighbouring nations and leading developing countries of the world. We are two of the largest economies. Our trade cooperation is extensive…So, the opportunities are immense. We should not have tensions between us. We should join hands and work together…I believe China’s high technology is well-known across the world. We can cooperate on this.”
On the SCO Summit itself, Zhang said, “SCO provides a good platform to further strengthen India-China relations. Tianjin is an important city.”
Another Chinese journalist, Wu Lei, Chief Editor at China-based outlet CGTN, emphasised the importance of the leaders’ commitment to keep the border issue from overshadowing broader ties. “Indian Prime Minister Modi also reaffirmed that the two countries should move on to boost their bilateral ties and border issues shouldn’t be affecting the bilateral relations and the direct flights between the two countries are expected to resume and the hope to expand the collaboration from security to economic and people to people exchanges and as member states of the SCO as well as the BRICS collaboration. They are expected to share more responsibility as a global South partners,” Wu said.
Wu added that both leaders’ participation at the SCO was significant in the context of a shifting global order. “They are expected to meet with global leaders and to strengthen the collaboration to uphold the multilateralism and especially when the world is facing a lot of challenges facing unilateralism, protectionism. So collaboration upholds solidarity as the key to tackle these problems.”
Highlighting the scale of the event, Wu said, “This is the fifth time for China to hold the SCO summit and they going to deliver a Tianjin declaration highlighting the latest results, fruitful outcome of the SCO over the years. China has been rotating the presidency of SCO over the last year. Over 100 activities have been held from agricultural to training to cultural exchanges, even media collaboration. This time, over 3,000 journalists are expected to cover the SCO. You can imagine that the SCO really attracts a lot of global attention.”
Wu also mentioned the summit’s historical dimension, adding, “And these global leaders also expected to release a statement highlighting the world anti-fascist wars, 80th anniversary of the Chinese people’s war against Japanese aggression and world anti-fascist war, as well as the founding of the United Nations. So it’s a very important moment for the whole world to stand together to continue the collaboration and uphold the multilateralism.” (ANI)
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