China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar in Delhi on Monday evening, marking his first visit to India in three years — an indication of a constructive effort to mend ties between the two neighbours.
Following the meeting, S. Jaishankar said the discussions aim to improve the “difficult ties” between India and China.
“Highlighted that our relations are best guided by the three mutuals – mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest. As we seek to move ahead from a difficult period in our ties, it needs a candid and constructive approach from both sides,” Jaishankar wrote on X.
He said they had productive conversations on economic and trade issues, pilgrimages, people-to-people contacts, river data sharing, border trade, connectivity, and bilateral exchanges.
“Confident that our discussions today would contribute to building a stable, cooperative and forward-looking relationship between India and China,” he said.
The meeting comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.
The regional bloc’s summit will be held in Tianjin city from August 31 to September 1.
Yi’s visit signals the resumption of high-level Delhi-Beijing contact — this is his first visit to India in three years since the Galwan clash in 2020.
