Sino-Indian summit takes the right road to economic cooperation
Latest talks between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to heal distrust between their nations can only contribute to a peaceful environment
The leaders of two countries accounting for one third of the world’s entire population met to narrow long-standing differences and heal distrust at the weekend.
Despite the importance of the talks between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they were overshadowed by global media coverage of the historic summit last Friday between the leaders of North and South Korea.
That says something about the compulsion of nuclear sabre-rattling by the North’s Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. Dialogue between the two Koreas and the prospect of denuclearisation might have done more to calm nerves about conflict on the Korean peninsula, but in the long run relations between the two Asian giants have immeasurable implications for regional and global stability.
Sino-Indian relations are not without their own elements of brinkmanship.
After a tense military border confrontation in the Himalayas last year, Modi’s visit to China, featuring a number of one-on-one private meetings with Xi, was a serious attempt to reset ties.