- Jaishankar, Wang holds conversations in Delhi in the middle of border tensions.
- Jaishankar says the key of peace on the border for better ties.
- Wang to meet Prime Minister Modi, hold border conversations with Doval.
India’s Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, began conversations with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in New Delhi on Monday and emphasized that there could be a positive impulse in the ties between the neighbors only if there was peace on their border.
Wang arrived in the Indian capital on Monday for a two -day visit during which he will celebrate the 24th round of border conversations with the Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and will also meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“This (discussing border problems) is very important because the basis for any positive impulse in our ties is the ability to jointly maintain peace and tranquility in border areas,” Jaishankar told Wang in his opening comments.
It is also important that the two countries withdraw their troops accumulated along their disputed border in the West Himalayas from a deadly border shock in 2020, Jaishankar said.
Wang’s visit comes days before Modi Travel to China, his first visit in seven years, to attend the summit of the Shanghai cooperation organization, a regional political and security group that also includes Russia.
The relations between the Asian giants began to defrost in October after New Delhi and Beijing reached a milestone pact for the lowest military tensions on their Himalayan border after the conversations between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Modi in Russia.
The ties between the two countries had deteriorated sharply after a military shock on their disputed Himalaya border in the summer of 2020 in which 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers killed.
Modi calls ‘friend’ Putin
The heating of ties between China and India is tense like the relations between New Delhi and Washington.
Trump has issued an ultimatum for India to finish 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 Monday that he spoke with “my friend” Vladimir Putin, with the Russian president “sharing ideas” at his Alaska summit with Trump last week.
“India has constantly requested a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict and supports all efforts in this regard,” wrote Indian prime minister on social networks.
Indian expects the Alaska meeting to relieve the tariff pressure of the United States was attenuated the earliest Monday by the American commercial advisor Peter Navarro.
“If India wants to be treated as a strategic partner of the USA.
“India acts as a global compensation house for Russian oil, turning crude oil into high value exports while giving Moscow the dollars it needs,” he wrote.
“Income flows to politically connected energy titans of India, and in turn, Vladimir Putin’s war chest,” he added, in an apparent blow to the great refiners of India, which include the tycoon Mikesh Ambani.
Navarro said the 50%rate, which will begin on August 27, “will arrive in India where it hurts.”
