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China is consenting to enactment with India for upholding “common interests” successful Global South and the BRICS grouping, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of China connected Thursday (March 26, 2026). Following a gathering betwixt Foreign Minister Wang Yi and outgoing Indian ambassador Pradeep Kumar Rawat successful Beijing, Chinese MoFA spokesperson Lin Jian said the 2 sides presumption each different arsenic “development opportunities”.
The remarks from Beijing coincided with remarks by Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong who connected the aforesaid time called for greater practice betwixt the 2 sides and said determination are “some” stakeholders who bash not favour affirmative narration betwixt India and China.
Following the gathering betwixt Mr. Wang and Mr. Rawat, Mr. Lin said, “China is consenting to enactment with India to instrumentality the important statement reached by the leaders of the 2 countries, proceed to respect each different than threats, dainty each different arsenic partners alternatively of rivals, grow mutually beneficial practice successful assorted fields, safeguard the communal interests of the Global South, fortify multilateral collaboration successful mechanisms specified arsenic BRICS….” India is the existent seat of BRICS and the adjacent BRICS acme is scheduled to beryllium held successful India.
Cultural cooperation
In Delhi, the Chinese ambassador reflected akin affirmative sentiments and said Indian yoga, aromatherapy and cuisine were gathering popularity successful China and called for greater taste cooperation. “China and India are neighbours that cannot beryllium moved apart. It should beryllium the close prime for some sides to beryllium bully neighbourly friends and partners that assistance each different succeed, and realise the ‘Dragon-Elephant Tango’. However, immoderate radical are unwilling to spot China and India unrecorded successful harmony,” said ambassador Xu Feihong, arguing that immoderate antithetical forces “hope to nett from discord betwixt our 2 countries”. The remarks from the Chinese envoy coincided with aggregate initiatives that the 2 sides are taking to normalise ties, including restarting civilian aviation links that were disrupted successful the aftermath of the Galwan clashes of June 2020.
Delivering a code titled “Bridging Hearts Through Youth: China and India Toward a Shared Future”, the envoy said India and China should “foster nonsubjective and rational views of each other.”
‘We invited much young radical from India to sojourn China, spot it with your ain eyes, acquisition the vitality of Chinese modernisation, stock stories of China-India friendship, and assistance physique a much nonsubjective and rational knowing betwixt our peoples,” said Mr. Xu. He said India and China should deepen exchanges and enactment each different successful platforms similar BRICS and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) arsenic the satellite deals with “turbulence, unilateralism and protectionism”.
Coinciding with affirmative sentiment being expressed by Chinese diplomats, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is making changes astatine the level of transfers and postings that volition beryllium applicable for India-China ties successful the coming years. India’s existent High Commissioner to the U.K. Vikram Doraiswami volition beryllium the adjacent ambassador to China and Rudrendra Tandon, erstwhile Indian ambassador to Afghanistan, has been appointed Secretary (East) of the MEA.
