Rare! India's Foreign Minister is also coming to China for a visit! The easing of Sino-India relations has already become an inevitable trend! On July 12, according to foreign media reports, sources said that India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit China this weekend, marking the first visit in over five years. Jaishankar will hold bilateral talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, and then go to Tianjin to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers' Council meeting on July 14-15.
According to sources, the separate meeting between the two foreign ministers outside the summit highlights both sides' efforts to repair the tense relationship. Meanwhile, foreign media also reported that China has invited Modi to attend the SCO leaders' summit held this autumn. It is indeed rare for India's foreign minister to come to China for a visit and have a separate meeting with our foreign minister. This clearly indicates that after the border conflict between China and India, the Sino-India relationship has shown a clear trend of improvement.
In fact, on June 25, 2023, India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh led an Indian high-level delegation to Qingdao, China, to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States' Defense Ministers' Meeting, which was also the first visit by the Indian military to China in five years. At that time, the signal sent by India's Defense Minister was very positive. Defense Minister Singh stated that efforts should be made to bridge the trust deficit that has persisted since the 2020 incident and seek a permanent solution to the border demarcation issue.
Evidently, India's positive statements indicate that India is willing to place the Sino-India border dispute in the proper position and handle the Sino-India relationship practically. Of course, from India's perspective, India indeed has the motivation to ease relations with us. Militarily, if the India-Pakistan tensions escalate, adding the tension between India and China would put more pressure on India. Economically, the US-India tariff issue has not been resolved. The US only discusses how much tariff to add to India, not whether to impose tariffs at all. Therefore, India certainly hopes to cooperate with us to offset the negative impact of American tariffs. Obviously, Sino-India diplomatic interactions are becoming frequent, which is a good sign.
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