Chinese President Xi Jinping warmly welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi during delegation-level talks on the sidelines of the SCO summit, stressing the importance of friendship between India and China. Xi said it was vital for the “Dragon and the Elephant” to come together as good neighbours and partners.
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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