Trump effect: “India, China should support each other,” says Chinese FM!
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Under mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump on a variety of issues, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday said India and China should tango together and support each other, the media reported.
Citing the recent developments in the bilateral relations between the two countries, he said the two Asian nations have made ‘positive’ strides and achieved encouraging outcomes at various levels.
Wang Yi emphasised the need for a cooperative partnership between the Dragon (China) and the Elephant (India). “China believes that, as the largest neighbors, the two countries should be partners in each other’s success,” he said, reaffirming Beijing’s commitment to strengthening ties with New Delhi.
During his annual press conference in Beijing, his remarks came in connection with the 2024 breakthrough, which ended the four-year-long military standoff in Eastern Ladakh. He was asked how Beijing viewed the progress of bilateral ties after the two countries ended the prolonged stalemate.
According to a media report, Wang attributed the positive strides in the relations to a successful meeting conducted between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kazan in Russia.
As India stressed the importance of peace at borders for the development of ties, Wang reiterated China’s stance and said the differences over the issues related to boundaries, should not affect the overall bilateral ties. “As two ancient civilisations, we have enough wisdom and capability to maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas pending a fair and reasonable solution to the boundary issue.”
There is every reason for us to support each other rather than undermine or undercut each other, he said, adding that both countries should work together rather than guard against each other.
“China stands ready to work with India to sum up experience and forge a fast- forward and advance China-India relations on the track of sound and stable development,” he said.
India and China completed the military disengagement process late in 2024 after the two countries firmed up a pact for the withdrawal of their troops from the last two friction points in Eastern Ladakh—Depsang and Demchok—to end over four years of freeze in ties since mid-2020.
The standoff began in 2020 when their troops engaged in a violent confrontation in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley, which also resulted in fatalities on both sides. The standoff was the first event in almost 60 years when deaths were reported at the India-China border.
After the disengagement at the Ladakh border, several meetings took place between them, including the one between Xi and Modi. Later, on December 18, 2025, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Wang held the 23rd Special Representative (SR) dialogue in Beijing.
