Narendra Modi will travel to China at the end of August: Security Advisor

The Indian National Security Advisor said during a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister in New Delhi on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China later this month.

Ajit Doval said that Modi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in Tianjin on August 31. This will be his first visit to China after 2018. At the beginning of the meeting, Duval said, “Our Prime Minister will come for the SCO meeting, which he termed as a” new energy “in diplomatic relations.

According to an official translator, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China’s “great importance to Modi’s SCO meeting” attaches great importance.

Wang added, “History and reality once again prove that the healthy and stable relations between China and India are in the basic and long -term interests of both countries.”

Wang will also meet Modi later on Tuesday.

The two largest population in the world is a strong competitor and compete for influence in South Asia, and has also made a deadly border clash in 2020.

India is also part of the ‘quad’ security alliance with the United States, Australia and Japan, which is seen as a China balance.

However, between US President Donald Trump’s trade war, the two countries have tried to improve relations between the global trade and geographical political turmoil.

During the talks with Indian Foreign Minister SJ Shankar on Monday, Wang said that the two countries should “see each other as partners and opportunities, not as opposed or dangerous.”