Nueva Delhi: The Plan of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit China for the first time in seven years to participate in the summit from August 31 to September 1 of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) would strengthen the friendship of the meeting with the promise of great results, the hosts said Friday.
Several Indian media cited Wednesday official sources saying that Modi would visit China for the summit, which was planned before the growing tensions with the United States.
In response to the reports of the Indian media, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Guo Jiakun, said Friday that China welcomed the Indian Prime Minister Modi to the SCO Summit in Tianjin.
“We believe that with the arranged effort of all parties, the Tianjin summit will be a meeting of solidarity, friendship and fruitful results, and the SCO will enter a new stage of high quality development with greater solidarity, coordination, dynamism and productivity.”
Guo was summoned by the Global timesA Chinese newspaper seen so close to the Communist Party, as saying that leaders from more than 20 countries, including all Member States of the SCO and chiefs of 10 international organizations, would attend “relevant events.”
The SCO Summit will be the largest scale meeting since the establishment of the OCS, he added.
On Wednesday, India today And several other media reported that Modi plans to attend the SCO Summit in Tianjin.
“If the visit materializes, it will mark the first trip of the Indian prime minister to China in seven years. Although the official authorities of China and India have not confirmed the news, it has attracted the generalized attention of the international community as soon as it was revealed.” Global times He said in a comment.
He quoted US magazine The diplomat Commenting that “the trend in the last decade has seen the two neighbors hug and then fall … the time has come for them to explore another round of commitment.”
Together, China and India represent more than a third of the world’s population, and both economies and their global influence are increasing.
“In this crucial situation, the trajectory of China-India relations has even more reasons to capture global attention,” the Global times saying.
“Observers have indicated that despite persistent differences and disputes between China and India, there have been signs of warm -up in their bilateral relations.”
After the 2020 border clash, China-India relations went through a long period of ice cream, severely impacting political trust, economic ties and exchanges from people to people.
Fresh restart
In October of last year, the successful meeting between Chinese and Indian leaders in Kazan established the pattern for a new restart in bilateral relations. At all levels, both countries have been defending the important consensus achieved by the two leaders, namely that “China and India are the other’s development opportunity instead of the threat, and the cooperation partner instead of the competitor.”
Anchored in development as the best “common denominator”, the two parties have continued to fulfill half and maintain the impulse of progress.
Since June, the National Security Advisor of India, Ajit Doval, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, have visited China.
Currently, several previously suspended bilateral mechanisms resume or are in the process of restarting, said the Chinese newspaper.
“Both parties have also promised not to allow the border problem to become an obstacle to general bilateral relations. In the area of exchanges of people to people, the resumption of the Indian pilgrimages to mount gang rhinoc Chinese to India, the citizens of India.
“Both parties also hope to take the opportunity of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties to achieve greater progress in relations with China-India.
“If Modi visits China this time, he will present another favorable opportunity to consolidate the positive impulse in Chinese-India relations,” said the newspaper.
Posted in Dawn, August 9, 2025
