Wang Yi: India, China Must Be Partners, Not Rivals; Focus on Opportunity

• Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged India and China to view each other as "partners, not rivals" and "opportunity instead of threat."
• He emphasized following the direction set by PM Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping to improve relations without interference.
• Recent summits between Modi and Xi in Kazan (2024) and Tianjin (last August) led to re-energized interactions, record bilateral trade, and closer people-to-people exchanges.
• Wang Yi stressed the need to uphold good-neighborliness, safeguard peace in border areas, and focus on development.
• Both nations, as members of the Global South, should support each other in hosting BRICS summits, with India hosting in 2024 and China in 2027.