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PM Narendra Modi stressed on the need for India and China to cooperate for global economic stability ahead of the SCO summit, amid ongoing US tariff tensions
PM Narendra Modi greets guests after delivering a speech during the Japan India Economic Forum in Tokyo on August 29. (Image: AP/Eugene Hoshiko)
Ahead of his visit to China for the SCO summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said it is important for India and China, as two major economies, to work together to bring stability to the world order.
Modi, who is in Japan to attend the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit, gave an indication of the purpose of his visit to China amid an intensifying tariff tussle with the United States. He said this in context of the “current volatility in the world economy”.
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“Given the current volatility in world economy, it is also important for India and China, as two major economies, to work together to bring stability to the world economic order,” Modi told Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun in an interview.
Elaborating on the importance of improving relations with China for regional and global prosperity, he said ties with Beijing have been on the mend. He added that both countries have made “steady and positive progress” in bilateral ties since his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Russia’s Kazan last year.
“Stable, predictable, and amicable bilateral relations between India and China, as two neighbours and the two largest nations on Earth, can have a positive impact on regional and global peace and prosperity,” he said, adding that such a relationship is also crucial for a “multi-polar Asia and a multi-polar world”.
The Prime Minister said India is ready to advance bilateral ties with China from a strategic and long-term perspective on the “basis of mutual respect, mutual interest and mutual sensitivity”.
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