China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi have sought to reassure each other that they are “partners not rivals” as the world’s two most populous countries seek to repair ties amid the fallout from Donald Trump’s trade war.
In a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional security forum, Xi told Modi that China was not a threat to India, despite a history of clashes along their Himalayan border and Beijing’s support for Pakistan.
“China and India are co-operation partners, not rivals,” state media Xinhua quoted Xi as saying at the meeting in Tianjin, northern China. The two nations “are each other’s development opportunities rather than threats”, he said.
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