China does not want unipolar Asia and respects India’s traditional role in the region, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told National Security Advisor Ajit Doval during their meeting in Delhi, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Wang said that Beijing was willing to explore “China-India Plus” cooperation in South Asia to forge a cooperation model with a healthy interaction, so as to achieve mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation at a higher level and in a wider range, the agency reported.
Wang is in Delhi for two days. He landed in the national capital on Thursday evening.
China and India should put their differences on the border issue at a “proper position” in bilateral relations and stick to the “right direction” of bilateral ties, Yi said on Friday.
China and India have a thousand-year history of cultural exchanges, and friendly cooperation has always been the mainstream, Wang said.
The realisation of national rejuvenation between China and India will have a significant and far-reaching impact on Asia and the world at large, the Minister said.
“Both sides should adhere to the strategic judgment of the leaders of the two countries that ‘China and India do not pose a threat to each other, but provide opportunities for each other’s development’, place differences on the border issue in the proper position of bilateral relations, and adhere to the correct development direction of bilateral relations,” Wang said during the meeting with Doval, and extended invitation to him to visit China.
Replying to the invitation, Doval said he could visit after immediate issues are resolved successfully, sources said. Doval discussed the need to take forward early and complete disengagement in remaining areas and remove impediments to allow the bilateral relationship to take its natural course.
He also conveyed to Wang that restoration of peace and tranquillity will help build mutual trust and create enabling environment for progress in relations
The Chinese foreign minister met the National Security Advisor at his office here in the South Block.
It is the first high-level Chinese visit to India in over two years of border dispute between the two countries in Eastern Ladakh. So far, 15 rounds of military talks have taken place between both countries to resolve the issue.
In the first major diplomatic engagement between India and China in nearly two years, Wang and Jaishankar on Friday held extensive talks covering the eastern Ladakh row and the geopolitical turmoil triggered by the crisis in Ukraine, official sources in New Delhi said.