PM Modi will visit China for the first time after th1

First visit Modi after 7 years, will attend the SCO meeting on 31 August and 1 September

New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan and China later this month. PM Modi will first participate in the India-Japan summit on 30 August. After this, he will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting to be held on 31 August and 1 September in Tianjin, China.

This will be PM Modi’s first visit to China after the Galwan Valley conflict of June 2020. Modi last visited China in 2018 to attend the SCO meeting in Qingdao. PM Modi’s visit is considered important amid the ongoing tension with the US on the tariff issue. Like India, China is also facing tension with the US on tariff.

At the same time, Japan is among the countries that have reached an agreement with the US on tariff. US President Donald Trump’s stance against the BRICS countries is very aggressive. Along with accusing the BRICS countries of weakening the dollar, Trump is attacking them on the issue of oil imports from Russia. Both India and China are big partners of BRICS. This will be PM Modi’s sixth visit to China.

Meeting with Jinping only on positive attitude

Apart from the SCO meeting, PM Modi can meet Chinese President Xi Jinping. But this will depend on China’s positive attitude. Sources in the Indian government said, China’s attitude on terrorism in the SCO Defense Ministers’ meeting was disappointing. Due to this, a joint statement on terrorism could not be issued. Relations improved somewhat with Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s visit to China. Later, due to Trump’s tariff war, the global scenario has changed rapidly. In such a situation, both China and India may need to increase mutual cooperation.

India will corner Pakistan on terrorism… In the SCO meeting, India plans to corner Pakistan on terrorism. Regional security, terrorism, trade and multilateral cooperation will be discussed in the meeting. Japan visit is also very important. In the India-Japan summit, PM Modi will hold talks with Japan PM Fumio Kishida on strategic, economic and technical cooperation.

China welcomes Modi to attend SCO summit

Beijing. China on Friday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned visit to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tianjin summit later this month. After seven years, Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to visit China to attend the SCO’s annual summit later this month. China warmly welcomes Prime Minister Modi for the SCO Tianjin summit, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

Said, the summit will be a confluence of solidarity, friendship and fruitful results

Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said, we believe that with the concerted efforts of all parties, the Tianjin summit will be a confluence 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.

China occupied 38,000 sq km of Indian land in the 1962 war

The central government told the Parliament on Friday that China had illegally occupied about 38,000 sq km of Indian territory in the 1962 war. It also informed that several initiatives have been taken with China at the bilateral level in the past few years to resolve the pending border dispute.

Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh gave this information in response to a written question. It was asked whether the government has any data about the areas occupied by China during the 1962 India-China war.

The government told the Parliament – Several initiatives have been taken in the past few years to resolve the border dispute. On being asked about diplomatic efforts to take back Indian land, the Minister of State for External Affairs said that after the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua to New Delhi in June 1981, India-China held eight rounds of formal border talks at the secretary level from December 1981 to November 1987. During the visit of then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to China from 19-23 December 1988, both sides announced the formation of India-China Joint Working Group on border dispute.

His trip will come at a time when India’s relationship with the U.S. faces its most serious crisis in years after President Donald Trump imposed the highest tariffs among Asian peers on goods imported from India, and has threatened an unspecified further penalty for New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil.

Modi’s visit to the Chinese city of Tianjin for the summit of the SCO, a Eurasian political and security grouping that includes Russia, will be his first since June 2018. Subsequently, Sino-Indian ties deteriorated sharply after a military clash along their disputed Himalayan border in 2020.

Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks on the sidelines of a BRICS summit in Russia in October that led to a thaw. The giant Asian neighbours are now slowly defusing tensions that have hampered business relations and travel between the two countries.

Trump has threatened to charge an additional 10% tariff on imports from members – which include India – of the BRICS group of major emerging economies for “aligning themselves with Anti-American policies.