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Wuhan spirit
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- China said its ties with India had a “bright future” and they were preparing for a summit between their leaders as a follow-up to last year’s Wuhan informal summit between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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- Relations despite differences: China hopes that ties between India and China will remain insulated from their differences on the Beijing-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
- Limiting threshold of differences: India and China were currently limiting the threshold of their differences so that overall development of ties remained unhampered.
Wuhan summit
- First Informal Summit: It was first Informal Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping held in Wuhan.
- Purpose of meeting: To exchange views on overarching issues of bilateral and global importance and to elaborate their respective visions and priorities for national development in context of current and future international situation.
- Emphasis on STRENGTH: PM Modi laid emphasis on importance of people-to-people (P2P) contact through STRENGTH: S-Spirituality; T-Tradition, Trade and Technology; R-Relationship; E-Entertainment (Art, Movies, etc.); N-Nature conservation; G-Games; T-Tourism and H-Health and Healing.
- Key Takeaways: Both leaders-(1) Agreed to maintain peaceful, stable and balanced relations between them to have stability amidst current global uncertainties.(2) Decided to strengthen Closer Development Partnership in mutually beneficial and sustainable manner.(3) Agreed to issue strategic guidance to their forces and strengthen existing mechanisms to maintain peace and tranquillity along the border areas.
Source
The Hindu