Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi waves to photographers as he arrives at a news conference during the First Session of the 13th National People's Congress in Beijing on Thursday. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images)A pair of statements from the Chinese and Indian foreign ministries this week appeared to show an opening in relations between Asia’s most powerful rivals, long competitors on trade and territory. “The Chinese ‘dragon’ and the Indian ‘elephant’ must not fight each other, but dance with each other,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing on Thursday. “We are still looking at broad strategic competition between China and India, which stretches over the Himalayas and into the Indian Ocean. Earlier this week, Indian Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharam said in parliament that both countries had redeployed troops at Doklam, the contested site of an intense standoff between the two countries last year.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2018 18:00 UTC