- Jaishankar, Wang Hols Talks in Delhi in the midst of border tensions.
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- Wang To meet PM Modi, hold border talks with Doval.
The Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar began talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in New Delhi on Monday and stressed that there could be a positive dynamic between neighbors that if there was peace at their border.
Wang arrived in the Indian capital on Monday for a two -day visit during which he will hold the 24th cycle of border talks with the Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval and will also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“This (discussing border problems) is very important because the basis of any positive dynamics in our links is the ability to jointly maintain peace and tranquility in border areas,” Jaishankar told Wang in his opening remarks.
It is also important that the two countries retreat their troops raised along their disputed border in western Himalayas from a deadly border confrontation in 2020, Jaishankar said.
Wang’s visit intervenes a few days before Moda went to China – his first visit to seven years – to attend the Shanghai cooperation organization, a regional political and security group that also includes Russia.
Relations between Asian giants began to thaw in October after New Delhi and Beijing reached a spreading pact to reduce military tensions at their Himalayan border following talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Modi in Russia.
The links between the two countries had deteriorated strongly following a military confrontation on their contested border in Himalayas in the summer of 2020 during which 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers were killed.
Modi calls “friend” Putin
Getting ties between China and India come while relations between New Delhi and Washington are tense.
Trump has issued an ultimatum for India to end its Russian oil purchases – a key source of income for the Moscow War in Ukraine – or Washington will double new import rates from 25% to 50%.
Modi said on Monday that he spoke to “my friend” Vladimir Putin, the Russian president “sharing information” on his Alaska summit with Trump last week.
“India has always called for a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict and supports all efforts in this regard,” the Indian Prime Minister on social networks wrote.
The Indians hope that the Alaska meeting would facilitate the pressure of American prices as soon as possible on Monday by the American commercial advisor Peter Navarro.
“If India wants to be treated as a strategic partner in the United States, it must begin to act as such,” he wrote in a strongly corded column in the Financial Times.
“India acts as a global exchange center for Russian oil, converting the gross embargo to high-value exports while giving Moscow the dollars it needs,” he wrote.
“The profits take place towards the politically connected energy titans of India, and in turn, in the war trunk of Vladimir Putin,” he added, in an apparent scanning to the great refiners of India, including the Mukesh Ambani magnate.
Navarro said the 50% rate – which should start on August 27 – “will hit India where it hurts”.
