Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Ninth Brics Summit in Xiamen last year and will attend the summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Qingdao in June. Photo: ReutersBeijing: The Wuhan summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping could be as significant as the one between former premier Rajiv Gandhi and then leader of China Deng Xiaoping in 1988, the official Chinese media commented on Tuesday. In its editorial ‘Xi-Modi meeting to show diplomatic wisdom of China, India’, the Global Times said “Indian leaders attach importance to reciprocity in diplomacy. The US and Japan began underscoring Indo-Pacific strategy last year in an explicit attempt to rope in India against China. The West wanted China and India to confront each other, but it didn’t work out that way, it said.

Source: Mint April 24, 2018 09:00 UTC