China, India agree to improve military communication for border peace
Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi stress the need to work together for mutual trust during Indian prime minister’s ice-breaking trip to China
China and India on Saturday pledged to improve military communication to avoid a repeat of last year’s stand-off along their 3,500km shared border, as the two sides wrapped up talks aimed at getting their relationship back on track.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping both stressed that the two nations should work to deepen mutual trust in a series of informal but highly choreographed talks in the central Chinese city of Wuhan over the past two days.
The leaders of the world’s two most populous countries also agreed to work together for an open global economy and support a multilateral trading system – a veiled reference to planned trade actions by the United States, state-run Xinhua reported.
They also highlighted communication between the two sides.
“The China-India relationship should be a stable and developing one, with mutual trust as the foundation,” Xi was quoted as saying by Xinhua. “In the next step, the two countries should make a comprehensive plan for cooperation and further enhance strategic communication [to enable] timely negotiation on major issues.”