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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is to visit India next week
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is to visit India next week

Wang Yi will meet Sushma Swaraj and discuss various issues of mutual interest including the upcoming multilateral meetings, G20 summit and BRICS

A file photo of Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. Photo: APPremium
A file photo of Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. Photo: AP

New Delhi: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is to visit India next week for talks with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj amid several irritants between the two Asian giants.

Wang will meet Swaraj on 13 August, spokesman for the ministry of external affairs Vikas Swarup said, adding that the visit was “part of the regular high-level dialogue". “Foreign minister Wang visited India in June 2014 and was among the first foreign ministers to be received by the Indian external affairs minister," Swarup said.

“During the visit, the two sides will discuss various issues of mutual interest including the upcoming multilateral meetings, namely, G20 summit being held in China and BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) summit being held in India," he said.

Swaraj had visited China in January-February 2015, Swarup said, adding that Wang and Swaraj have been meeting regularly on the margins of multilateral meetings.

Most recently, they had met in Moscow during the Russia-India-China trilateral meeting in April 2016. The G20 summit in Hangzhou early next month will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Wang’s visit can also be seen as preparatory to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India in October for the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa summit.

Wang’s visit comes against the backdrop of several irritants in the India-China relationship which includes Chinese opposition to India joining the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group in June and reports of Chinese troop incursions into Uttarakhand in July.

News reports said People’s Liberation Army (PLA) personnel were seen in Barahoti area when Uttarakhand government officials accompanied by Border Security Force personnel visited the area.

Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat was quoted by news reports as saying that the development was “something to worry about." Rawat said he hoped the Union government would accede to his request to increase security along the border areas.

The undemarcated border is a legacy of the brief but bitter 1962 border conflict between the Asian giants. It is also a key reason for relations between the two countries remaining mired in suspicion. Another reason for uneasy ties between India and China is the latter’s close ties with Pakistan.

Earlier this year, India was upset with China putting a “technical hold" on a ban sought by India at the UN on Pakistan-based militant Masood Azhar. India had also ruffled Chinese feathers when it had recently issued visas to Uighur separatist leaders to attend a conference of Chinese dissidents in Dharamsala.

Last month, India also refused to extend visas to three Xinhua news agency journalists, who are employed by the Chinese government. Beijing has also been wary of growing Indo-US ties which is being viewed by the ruling Communist Party as an attempt to check China.

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Published: 05 Aug 2016, 09:36 PM IST
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