Chinese Ambassador in India XU Feihong. File | Photo Credit: Neither
India-China’s links have achieved a “new level of improvement” after a recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Tianjin, said the Chinese Ambassador to India XU Feihong on Tuesday. He said that both countries should not let the limit dispute defined links between them.
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Mr. Modi and Mr. XI met twice in the past year and both parties agreed to restore flights, visas and other two-sided mechanisms after four years of molding on ties as a result of military stand-off on the line of actual control.
“Surprising differences through dialogue have always been an important key to the development of relations between China and India,” Xu said, adding that both countries “should not allow the border question that has been left from the past to define current relations in China-India, nor to have specific differences influence comprehensive bilateral cooperation”. During the stand-off LAC new Delhi claimed that normal bilateral relations were not possible without normal.
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“In the last 75 years, despite the rise and falls, the relationship has been tremendously defined by friendly cooperation,” said Mr. XU at the Assembly of Diplomats and Indian invited to the event.
According to the envoy, the Chinese embassy issued 2,65,000 visas in 2025 by Indian citizens and continued to facilitate pilgrims to Kailash-Mansarovar, after which 700 official pilgrims and 20,000 private pilgrims took place this year. Mr. XU said that bilateral goods trade increased by 10.4% to $ 102 billion between January and August.
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These were Mr. XU’s first public comments from Modi’s visit to China on August 30, seven years after his last visit in the middle of the melting in relationships. Last month, the envoy criticized the US for “bullying” India by imposing 50% of tariffs and expressing Chinese support for India to support the international business order.
India and the US have since restored business negotiations, although US tariffs have not been returned. Referring to the Summit organization for cooperation in Shanghai (SCO), which Mr. Modi participated, Mr. XU said that Mr. XI proposed “the initiative for global administration” and called on “observance of sovereign equality, adhered to international law, practiced multilateralism”.
Published – 23 September 2025 21:58
