China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday that Beijing and New Delhi should work towards mutual confidence and cooperation of “win-win”, after conversations with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, state-owned state agency Xinhua reported.
China and India should “adhere to the direction of good neighborhood and friendship” and “find a way of respect and mutual confidence, peaceful coexistence, common development and winning cooperation,” said Wang, according to Xinhua.
The two foreign ministers gathered in Beijing on Monday while the two rivals seek to repair the ties after a 2020 clash on their border.
The two most populated nations in the world are intense rivals that compete for the strategic influence in southern Asia, and its 3,500 kilometers border has been a perennial source of tension.
The 2020 clash among his troops led to a four -year military confrontation, but agreed in October in patrols in dispute areas.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and the president of China, Xi Jinping, met for the first time in five years later that month, agreeing to work to improve relationships.
Nueva Delhi is concerned about the growing presence of Beijing in the Indian Ocean, seeing the region so firmly within its sphere of influence.
Another source of tension is the Dalai Lama, the Indian Tibetan spiritual leader has organized since he and thousands of other Tibetans fled from the Chinese troops who crushed an uprising in their capital Lhasa in 1959.
Dalai Lama, 90, says that only her organization based in India has the right to identify her eventual successor.
China insists that the last word would have on who happens to the Tibetan spiritual leader.
