India’s prime minister planning Beijing visit
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PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will visit China before his first anniversary in government on May 26, India’s foreign ministry said yesterday.
The announcement came a week after Modi received US President Barack Obama in New Delhi, promising closer cooperation to maintain “free navigation” in the South China Sea, deeper defense ties including work on aircraft carrier technology and more civil nuclear collaboration.
China had agreed that the visit would be before the end of May, India’s foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said, but a final date has yet to be set.
“We want the visit to happen in the first year of the government,” the spokesman said.
While Modi is keen to work more closely with Washington than his predecessors, he also wants to build strong relations with China, with whom India shares US$66 billion in annual trade but has a long-running border dispute and fought a brief war in 1962.
Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to Beijing yesterday and said he expected greater developments in ties between the two Asian giants this year.
Swaraj is attending a trilateral forum in the capital among China, India and Russia.
“The positive side of China-India relations has been growing, the momentum of our cooperation has been strengthening,” Xi told Swaraj at the start of their meeting in the Great Hall of the People.
“I have full confidence in the future of China-India relations and I believe that real progress will be achieved in growing this bilateral relationship in this new year.”
Xi visited India in September and promised some US$30 billion of investments.
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