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The concern astatine the India-China borderline is “stable”, says China’s Ambassador to India Xu Feihong, adding that China is prepared to sermon “border absorption and power rules” successful bid to resoluteness issues aft the 4-year subject standoff astatine the Line of Actual Control ended. In written responses to questions from The Hindu, Mr. Xu spoke astir plans to reconstruct normalcy successful ties, disclosing that airlines and the authorities person prepared for the relaunch of nonstop flights, to reconstruct different exchanges, to resoluteness concern and commercialized differences, and said the restart of the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra would “inject caller impetus” into relations. Rejecting disapproval of China’s enactment to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, the Chinese Ambassador said bilateral ties were not targeted astatine a 3rd country. While criticising comments by Minister Kiren Rijiju connected the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, helium said Beijing had “noted” the MEA connection that India has “no position” connected the issue.
Excerpts from the written Interview:
Q: About 8-9 batches of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra person been completed oregon are underway, and we were capable to conscionable Indian pilgrims there. For the Chinese government, what is the value of the restoration of the pilgrimage?
A: The Kangrínboqê Fēng (Mount Kailash) and Mapam Yuco (Mansarovar) successful Xizang (Tibet Autonomous Region/TAR) are regarded arsenic “sacred upland and lake” by followers of respective religions, including Tibetan Buddhism and Hinduism. The sojourn of Indian pilgrims to the ineffable upland and water successful [Tibet] is simply a peculiar statement made by the Chinese broadside to amusement friendliness to the Indian people, accommodate the spiritual sentiments of the Indian people, and heighten taste and people-to-people exchanges betwixt the 2 countries.
A: During the mentation process, the Chinese broadside overcame galore difficulties and invested a ample magnitude of manpower and resources. Recently, successful accordance with the statement reached by the 2 sides, the pilgrimage to the ineffable upland and water has resumed and is proceeding successful an orderly manner. The Indian Defence Minister and Minister of External Affairs expressed their appreciation to the Chinese broadside during their sojourn to China, and the Indian radical besides responded enthusiastically. This volition assistance to heighten communal knowing and relationship betwixt the 2 peoples, beforehand taste and people-to-people exchanges and communal knowing betwixt the 2 countries, and inject caller impetus into the betterment and improvement of China-India relations.
Q: Is KMY expected to pave the mode for different people-to-people ties, including travel, commercialized and investment? How soon bash you expect nonstop flights betwixt India and China to begin, and what volition beryllium the frequency?
A: Resuming the pilgrimage for Indian pilgrims to the ineffable upland and water successful [Tibet] is an important inaugural taken by China to amended relations betwixt the 2 countries. It afloat demonstrates China’s sincerity and trustworthiness. We anticipation and judge that the Indian broadside volition enactment for the shared extremity of promoting caller developments successful practice successful areas specified arsenic investment, commercialized and tourism betwixt the 2 countries. Currently, the authorities departments of some China and India, arsenic good arsenic large airlines, person done a batch of enactment for the resumption of nonstop flights. We anticipation that nonstop flights betwixt the 2 countries volition beryllium launched arsenic soon arsenic possible.
Q: There person been reports of a fig of differences implicit economical issues- China is believed to person objected to India’s FDI restrictions, and ineligible cases against Chinese businesses, portion successful India, China is perceived to person blocked exports of Critical minerals and fertilizers, and recalled Chinese unit from Foxconn/Apple factories. How bash you expect these to beryllium resolved?
A: Standing astatine a caller humanities starting point, some China and India are astatine a captious signifier of their respective modernisation. Development is the “greatest communal denominator” betwixt the 2 nations astatine present. China has ever supported strengthening practice betwixt China and India successful the economical and commercialized fields. We anticipation that India volition enactment unneurotic with China to instrumentality much measures conducive to bilateral economical and commercialized exchanges, adhd inducement policies and trim restrictive measures, truthful arsenic to beforehand China-India economical and commercialized practice to a caller level.
Q: Has Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed his attendance astatine the SCO Summit aboriginal this year, and would determination beryllium a bilateral sojourn oregon gathering arsenic well?
A: China volition clasp the SCO acme successful Tianjin from August 31 to September 1, 2025. We invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be the SCO Tianjin summit. PM Modi said earlier that India afloat supports China’s SCO presidency. Not agelong agone India’s NSA Ajit Doval and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attended applicable SCO meetings successful China. EAM Dr. S. Jaishankar visited China and participated successful the SCO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, noting that India afloat supports China, arsenic the rotating chair, successful hosting a palmy SCO summit.
A: The SCO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was successfully held precocious and made afloat governmental preparations for the upcoming SCO Tianjin summit.
Q: At the SCO Defence Minister’s meeting, the Ministry of External Affairs said that 1 state held up the associated connection implicit references to coercion and successful peculiar the Pahalgam Terror attack. As Chair, however does China explicate the deficiency of a connection connected coercion astatine the SCO, an organisation that was founded with a precedence connected issues of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation, and however assured is China of a associated connection astatine the FM meet/ Summit?
A: The SCO adheres to the Shanghai Spirit, which features communal trust, communal benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverseness of civilisations and pursuit of communal development. The Shanghai Spirit is the precise basal and psyche of the SCO and the cardinal to its beardown vitality. According to this “code of conduct” of the SCO family, subordinate states tin arsenic explicit their positions, but besides should debar bringing bilateral conflicts into the multilateral platform.
A: Unilateralism and bullying are present forcing their mode and bringing superior challenges to the world. As the 2 astir populous emerging economies, China and India request to heighten practice nether multilateral frameworks specified arsenic the SCO and BRICS, resolutely uphold multilateralism, safeguard the communal interests of the Global South, beforehand determination peace, stableness and prosperity, and jointly physique a assemblage with a shared aboriginal for mankind.
Q: Even arsenic India and China reconstruct their exchanges to bring a “semblance of normalcy”, arsenic Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said successful a statement, what is the adjacent measurement connected the Line of Actual Control? While some sides agreed to disengage successful October 2024, has determination been immoderate advancement connected de-escalation and demobilisation of troops there?
A: At present, the concern successful the China-India borderline areas is mostly stable. Last October, China and India reached resolutions connected applicable issues concerning the borderline country aft intensive consultations and negotiations, and afloat and efficaciously pushed guardant their implementation. Last December, based connected the important statement reached by the 2 leaders successful Kazan, China and India held the 23rd Special Representatives’ Meeting connected the China-India Boundary Question. The 2 sides held substantive talks and reached a six-point statement connected the China-India bound question successful a affirmative and constructive attitude. This March, the 2 sides held the 33rd Meeting of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination connected China-India Border Affairs and agreed to instrumentality factual and effectual measures to continuously support bid and tranquillity successful the borderline areas. In the adjacent stage, China is consenting to support connection with India done diplomatic and subject channels, and successful the tone of adjacent consultation and communal and adjacent security, further refine the borderline country absorption and power rules and fortify confidence-building measures, truthful arsenic to execute sustainable bid and tranquillity successful the borderline areas.
Q: The Deputy Chief of the Indian Army has alleged that China provided “all imaginable support” to Pakistan during Operation Sindoor including unrecorded inputs during the 4-day struggle betwixt India and Pakistan successful May. What is your effect and has India raised its concerns astir subject interference from China successful the conflict?
A: After the violent onslaught successful Pahalgam, China powerfully condemned it immediately, reiterating its steadfast absorption to each forms of terrorism. China has been intimately pursuing the concern betwixt India and Pakistan and actively promoting talks for peace. Foreign Minister Wang Yi had telephone conversations with India’s NSA Ajit Doval and Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar respectively.
A: India and Pakistan are and volition ever beryllium each other’s neighbours, and some are China’s important neighbours. The realisation of a ceasefire betwixt India and Pakistan is successful enactment with the cardinal and semipermanent interests of some sides, and conducive to determination bid and stability, which is besides the communal anticipation of the planetary community. China welcomes and supports India and Pakistan to decently settee their differences and question cardinal solutions done dialog and consultation. China stands acceptable to proceed playing a constructive relation to this end.
A: During the caller gathering with EAM Dr. S. Jaishankar, Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasised that China-India relations person their ain humanities logic and interior driving force, and the narration does not people immoderate 3rd party, nor should it beryllium disrupted by immoderate 3rd party. Similarly, the improvement of relations and practice betwixt China and Pakistan does not people immoderate 3rd party. Defence and information practice is portion of the mean practice betwixt China and Pakistan.
Q: Given that it is an yearly practice, wherefore did the Chinese MFA entity to PM Modi’s day greetings to the Dalai Lama?
A: The 14th Dalai Lama is not a axenic spiritual figure, but a governmental exile engaging successful anti-China separatist activities nether the cloak of religion and attempting to divided [Tibet] from China. China consistently and firmly opposes immoderate signifier of engagement betwixt officials of immoderate state and the 14th Dalai Lama. At present, the betterment and improvement of China-India relations are astatine a captious stage, and some sides request to respect each other’s halfway interests and large concerns. China hopes that the Indian broadside could beryllium afloat cognizant of the sensitivity of [Tibet]-related issues, beryllium afloat alert of the 14th Dalai Lama’s anti-China and separatist nature, stick to its committedness connected [Tibet]-related issues, halt utilizing [Tibet]-related issues to interfere successful China’s interior affairs, and refrain from immoderate signifier of contacts with the Dalai radical oregon providing immoderate signifier of enactment oregon convenience for the Dalai radical to transportation retired anti-China separatist activities, truthful arsenic not to disrupt the process of improving and processing China-India relations.
Q: Does the contented of the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, which the MEA says the authorities has “no position” on, person a bearing connected India-China ties arsenic well?
A: We person noted the MEA of India’s effect to media queries regarding the connection by the 14th Dalai Lama. However, it cannot beryllium denied that immoderate officials of India openly expressed their invited and enactment for the connection by the 14th Dalai Lama and attended his 90th day celebration. Some radical from strategical communities and the media made improper remarks connected the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. Such words and deeds are, successful essence, promoting interference successful China’s interior affairs utilizing [Tibet]-related issues, contrary to Indian government’s nationalist stance.
A: Let maine reiterate that [Tibet] is an inalienable portion of China’s territory. The lineage of the Dalai Lamas took signifier and evolved wrong [TAR]. The spiritual presumption and titles are the prerogative of the cardinal authorities of China. The reincarnation and succession of the Dalai Lama is inherently an interior matter of China. The Chinese authorities upholds the rule of independency and self-governance successful spiritual affairs and administers the reincarnation of Living Buddhas, including that of the Dalai Lama, successful accordance with the law. No interference by immoderate outer forces volition beryllium allowed. Hope the Indian broadside could cognize what genuinely matters and what’s right, and honour its commitments made to China connected [Tibet]-related issues.
Q: Are determination astatine present, immoderate talks, oregon plans for talks betwixt the Chinese authorities and representatives of the Dalai Lama (as determination person been successful the past)?
A: The Chinese authorities upholds 2 cardinal principles erstwhile it comes to interaction and talks with the 14th Dalai Lama. First, we would lone person interaction and talks with him oregon his idiosyncratic representative, not with the alleged “Central Tibetan Administration.” Second, immoderate interaction oregon talks, if they occur, volition lone interest the idiosyncratic aboriginal of the 14th Dalai Lama himself or, astatine most, a tiny fig of radical adjacent to him.
A: We are prepared to prosecute successful talks with the 14th Dalai Lama regarding his idiosyncratic future, provided helium genuinely renounces the presumption aimed astatine splitting the motherland, wholly ceases each separatist activities, publically recognizes [Tibet] and Taiwan arsenic integral parts of China, publically recognises the authorities of the People’s Republic of China arsenic the sole morganatic authorities representing each of China.
Q: In the past fewer years, China has created groupings connected COVID and poorness alleviation successful South Asia that don’t see India. Is determination an effort to make a “SAARC minus India”, oregon are determination possibilities for China and India to cooperate successful the region?
A: China is ever committed to the neighbourhood argumentation of amity, sincerity, communal payment and inclusiveness. By enhancing Political communal trust, carrying retired Inclusive practice and injecting impetus into Economic empowerment, China looks guardant to joining hands with South Asian countries to marque a bigger “PIE” of cooperation, to beforehand determination peace, stability, improvement and prosperity.
A: “P” stands for Political Trust. At present, China, India and different South Asian countries are astatine a captious signifier of modernisation. China stands acceptable to cooperate with India to alteration South Asian radical to stock bid and stableness .“I” stands for Inclusive Cooperation. In caller years, China has initiated practice mechanisms specified arsenic the China-South Asia Cooperation Forum, the China-South Asia Exposition, the China-Indian Ocean Region Forum connected Development Cooperation, and has precocious held the China-Bangladesh-Pakistan Vice Foreign Minister/Foreign Secretary meeting, enhancing the well-being of each the radical done unfastened cooperation. These practice mechanisms are by nary means a closed and confrontational “small circle”. It does not people immoderate 3rd enactment and volition not beryllium disrupted by immoderate 3rd party. China ever welcomes India’s information successful each the platforms supra and looks guardant to carrying retired trilateral practice with India successful South Asia, leveraging our respective strengths to nutrient the effect successful which 1+1+1>3. “E” stands for Economic Empowerment. Over the past 12 years since China presented the Belt and Road Initiative, commercialized betwixt China and South Asian countries has doubled from little than US$100 cardinal to astir US$200 billion.
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