Senior officials from China and India held a new round of China-India Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi on Tuesday, with both sides having friendly, candid and in-depth communication on the international and regional situation, respective internal and external policies, international and regional issues of shared interest, and China-India relations, according to a release by Chinese Foreign Ministry on late Tuesday. A Chinese expert say this signals that a momentum of thawing bilateral ties has continued.
The meeting, held on the sidelines of the BRICS Sherpa Meeting (February 8-10), involved Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Ma Zhaoxu and Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that both sides emphasized the need to view and handle China-India relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, and uphold the strategic perception that China and India are cooperative partners instead of rivals, and the two countries are each other’s development opportunity instead of threat.
