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‘Xi mooted trilateral ties with India, Pak.’
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- Within days of the second India-China “informal summit”, Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi has said that Chinese President Xi Jinping had shared with PM Narendra Modi his vision for trilateral cooperation among Beijing, New Delhi and Islamabad.
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- Highlights of Chinese FM Wang Yi’s Address:
(1) Solve current issues through dialogue
(2) Sound China-India relations, China-Pakistan relations and India-Pakistan relations to Promote regional peace and stability, and achieve common development and prosperity, by working together.
(3) Advocating a trilateral approach, he said that none of the three countries — China, India or Pakistan — should target or be influenced by a “third party”.
(4) Relations can run parallel and develop together: China’s respective relations with India, Pakistan and other South Asian countries, with respective unique history and characteristics, can run in parallel and develop together, neither targeting any third party nor being influenced by a third party.
(5) Veiled reference to Kashmir Issue: He said, the recent strained India-Pakistan relations and unrest and turbulence in the region have drawn grave concerns from the international community
(6) India and Pakistan can improve their relations: both are friendly neighbours of China, and the Chinese side hopes that the two countries can properly manage and control differences and improve their relations.
(7) Enhancing “China-India Plus” formulation, which could be gradually expanded to cover other countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa on the basis of the existing “China-India-Afghanistan” cooperation.
Sources
The Hindu