The honorable prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, kicked off his bilateral engagements at the SCO summit in Qingdao with a meeting with Xi Jinping, with the Chinese President, in which both leaders essentially underscored the implication of their Wuhan informal summit in the two-pronged relationship, India-China between 2 nations.
At the same time, due to this is as Xi described Wuhan as a new beginning point, Modi called the summit a milestone in the relationship.
Stating that the spirit of Wuhan “underpinned” the Qingdao meeting, Vijay Gokhale, the foreign secretary, regarded as the Xi’s receipt of Modi’s invite for another informal summit for 2019 in India as a noteworthy take away from the meeting on Saturday.
Another momentous development was that Modi and Xi agreed to recognize a project in “capacity building” in Afghanistan on which the 2 nations will be work together.
The idea in which the 2 nations can work together in Afghanistan on economic projects had begun in the Wuhan summit.
This is very crucial for India; China also agreed to renew an agreement that is known for sharing of hydrological data of the Brahmaputra River in flood season (from May 15 to October 15) with India.
Xi & Modi, who have met on more than a dozen occurrences in the past 4 years, have been for some time trying to rise above the historical and policy trappings which have been conducted and held India-China relations in an unsettled state for decades.
The declaration about Xi’s visit is seen as a signal to the people of India and China where the 2 leaders have finally agreed on a plan to resolve past disputes in order to extend the possibility.
A plan is afoot to create a mechanism which is at the level of the 2 leaders to provide strategic guidance to the two militaries in order to keep peace on the border and take forward connectivity projects in the 3rd nations, starting in Afghanistan.
The signal came on the sidelines of the SCO summit that is being attended by Mamnoon Hussain, President, of Pakistan.
This decision is to take forward the system of informal summits is a message to Pakistan also as the city; Islamabad has been counting on India’s support in its disputes with India anyway.
China and India also signed two two-pronged agreements on continuing the sharing of hydrological data on the Brahmaputra river which is also expanding rice exports to China.
During his meeting with Xi, the Prime Minister also highlighted and focused the negative balance of trade arrangement for India which also expressed the expectation that China can buy a range of products like rice, sugar, and pharmaceuticals from India.
This decision on rice exports can be also regarded as the beginning point for sale of Indian farm produce and processed products like sugar to China which is for in order to reduce the trade disparity in the globally.
China’s ministry of water resources and India’s ministry of water resources, Under a MoU between, Ganga rejuvenation and river development, China has agreed to share flood season data with India from May 15 to October 15 every year.
Those Data was not shared last year in 2017, with China citing landslides in Tibet prior, strained ties throughout, the Doklam stand-off.
China has now pledged to share data with India all through the flood season, which is also to provide data if the water levels exceed mutually agreed levels during the non-flood season.
China’s customs administration and India’s department of agriculture on rice exports that is unable for India to now export non-basmati rice varieties, getting higher a previous 2006 protocol on rice exports.
This China’s ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui said on the micro-blogging site, that Saturday’s meeting will discuss the blueprint of relations going forward which is for the consensus reached in Wuhan last month, May.
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