PM Modi concludes Japan visit, heads to China for SCO Summit

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has concluded his visit to Japan, where he visited visited semiconductor and electronics manufacturer Tokyo Electron, describing the chips sector as a key area of cooperation between India and Japan.

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00:00What you are seeing now are the visuals that are coming in.

00:03Prime Minister Narendra Modi now all set to meet the Chinese president.

00:07Now this is his first visit to China in last seven years.

00:11This is Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaving from Japan.

00:18All the eyes now on Prime Minister Modi's visit to China for the SCO summit.

00:26My colleague Pranipadhyay is now joining me on the story.

00:30Pranipadhyay, we are now seeing very important movement being done by India,

00:34first Japan and now going to China.

00:37This is Prime Minister Modi's first visit to China in the last seven years.

00:41We did see how the relationship between India and China hit rock bottom

00:45after the Galwan clashes in 2020.

00:48We are now seeing a rebuilding of relationship.

00:52Absolutely, Aishwarya.

00:53And if you recall the previous visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to China in 2018,

00:58that was the visit which took place after the Galwan, after the Doklam crisis.

01:05And then both India and China decided to come together to minimize their differences

01:10and that Wuhan summit happened.

01:12But thereafter, then COVID and then Galwan clashes actually derailed the partnership,

01:16derailed the relationship.

01:17We have seen the frosty era, the frosty part of India-China ties in the recent past.

01:26And actually, Galwan has changed many things for long.

01:30But after the Kazan meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping,

01:35and even before that, they had a handshake in Bali as well on the sidelines of G20 meeting.

01:40So that actually started the research process.

01:44And after Kazan, both countries agreed to disengage from the line of actual control,

01:49to go for the de-escalation.

01:51Recently, the Chinese Foreign Minister and Chinese Special Representative Wang Yi visited New Delhi.

01:56And both countries have decided to take some forward steps to minimize their differences,

02:01as well as go for the de-escalation process, confidence-building process,

02:04and also to resolve their long-standing border dispute, which is of 3,488 kilometers.

02:13And we have seen.

02:14But, like, you know, we also have to be mindful.

02:17We also have to be cautious about these pictures, Aishwarya,

02:20because these are the historical burdens.

02:22These are the long-standing and long-pending issues between India and China.

02:28We are the two most populous countries on the planet.

02:31We are the two big economies.

02:32We are the two developing economies.

02:34So, therefore, the conflict and competition are part of the same coin here,

02:38because we are fighting for the same resources, same set of, you know, things to fuel our economy,

02:44to fulfill the aspiration of our huge population, to feed our huge population,

02:49to ensure the energy security of this massive population.

02:53So that's why the differences will always remain.

02:57However, the effort to make, to not let the differences turn into dispute is a challenge before both these leaders.

03:04When President Xi Jinping visited Mahabalipuram in 2019, he also mentioned,

03:09he and Prime Minister Modi both agreed that this is a historic burden of differences.

03:12This is a historic burden of dispute.

03:15Let us not, you know, let us not let it, you know, cascade or blow up into a major conflict.

03:22However, still, despite both the leaders agreeing on that count, we have re-witnessed the Galwan clashes,

03:29which actually, you know, which actually caused the loss of life on line of actual control after many years,

03:37like post-1962, that was the most, you know, the biggest life loss on line of actual control.

03:43Thank you, Pranay, giving us all those details.

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