They met yesterday while attending the BRICS summit in South Africa.
BEIJING: Chinese president Xi Jinping and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi held “candid and in-depth” talks to ease tensions along their disputed frontier, Beijing said today, after a rare face-to-face encounter between the two leaders.
“President Xi stressed that improving China-India relations serves the common interests of the two countries and peoples,” a ministry spokesman said today. “Modi underlined that … observing and respecting the LAC are essential for normalising India-China relationship,” Vinay Kwatra told reporters yesterday.
Both countries have regularly accused each other of trying to seize territory along their unofficial divide, known as the Line of Actual Control. It is also seeking to develop closer ties with western countries including fellow Quad members the US, Japan, and Australia, which are themselves wooing it as an alternative to China.
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