00:00Now as to what Xi Jinping told Prime Minister Modi.
00:08And after Prime Minister Modi sent that message of Vishwa Samman and Samvedan Shilta with his sensitivity,
00:15President Xi Jinping said that he is happy to be in Tianjin.
00:21He's welcoming Prime Minister Modi to chair Tianjin and he's happy to see him.
00:25It is a great pleasure to meet you again, Prime Minister.
00:28Prime Minister, I welcome you to China for the SCO Summit.
00:32Last year we had a successful meeting in Kazan.
00:35Those are the words of Xi Jinping.
00:37Yes, Gaurav, give us the details.
00:43So this is, you know, the information I was giving you about the entire focus of the bilateral also remains
00:49since it's happening in the overview of a multilateral.
00:52China's focus is also a multilateral visit in which India, an important part of the SCO, is here.
00:58India's focus is also in the SCO and the two-hour meeting and sharing notes.
01:02They're comparing notes.
01:04The big thaw that we saw in Kazan, that process perhaps being taken forward.
01:09But no major declaration is what sources are telling, what telling India today throughout that.
01:14Do not expect a very massive, you know, breakthrough to happen in, unlike Kazan here in Tianjin.
01:22The Tianjin effort is the SCO effort.
01:25Happy to see you meeting SCO member states, taking this relationship forward, bigger role for Global South.
01:33China talks of a multipolar world, but China does not talk of a multipolar Asia.
01:39And India's entire focus is multipolar world, multipolar Asia, two giants coexisting together.
01:45China believes in one giant, multipolar world, but one giant in Asia.
01:51So that's the narrative that India's gradually trying to change.
01:54The narrative that India's also gradually trying to change with the United States of America.
01:58In all of that, the effort is, in this churn, India's trying to see what best can emerge for India during this, you know, relationship and this complex thing.
02:09And the headline point, of course, came out of the visit to Japan.
02:12With China, it's more of continuity, ensuring peace and tranquility at the borders.
02:18And the point here is that concrete steps can be taken.
02:23Can that be taken in India, China, proposing to bridge trade deficits and opening up perhaps new market access within the SCO framework?
02:33If the focus is multilateralism and multipolarity of the world, that is China's view, but not multipolar Asia, then how will that be juxtaposed there, Gaurav?
02:47You know, that's the complex part.
02:54India is seeking more access for Indian goods to Chinese markets.
02:59What has happened so far, ever since tensions between India and China escalated, China stopped the supplies of fertilizers, for example.
03:06Now, that impacts India adversely.
03:08It stopped the supply of the tunnel digging machine, the boring machines that India, you know, that required, that created a problem.
03:18So, when there was a thaw, what started was, once again, you get your fertilizers, you get those chemicals, you get the tunnel digging machines.
03:27But the legacy problems, they remain in, you know, as legacy problems.
03:32India's efforts is, we solve the legacy problems.
03:34You have greater people-to-people cooperation, you have direct access, more visas, will it include journalists?
03:41We still do not know.
03:42More people-to-people cooperation, but will India get more access to Chinese markets?
03:47That problem still remains.
03:49The trade deficit of $100 billion, that still remains.
03:52How will that get addressed?
03:53Still remains work in progress, as sources in the government tell India today.
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