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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met the outgoing Chinese envoy to India, Sun Weidong and emphasized that peace and tranquillity in the border areas are essential to maintaining bilateral ties.

Mr Sun said the two countries need to respect each other's political systems and development paths, and uphold the principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs and avoid "misunderstanding and miscalculation".

China-India relations have significance not only for the two countries but also have a great bearing on the region and the world at large, Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong has said.

Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Weidong thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for offering prayers and sympathy over the passenger plane crash in China's Guangxi on Monday.

Australian High Commissioner Barry O'Farrell on Friday hit back at Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong for objecting to his comments about Chinese actions the South China Sea, and asserted that Beijing should refrain from actions that could unilaterally alter the status quo in the region.

China is not an expansionist power or a "strategic threat" to India, Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong said today, underscoring the peaceful relations between the two nations over centuries. "We have never been aggressive and pursued own development at expense of other countries," tweeted the envoy, amid the ongoing disengagement process between India...

China and India should be partners rather than rivals, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said on Friday, adding that the two countries should build mutual trust and should not allow differences to interfere with bilateral relations. However, claiming that China was "neither a warlike state nor an assertive country", he said, "The right and wr...

China and India should never let their differences shadow the overall bilateral ties and must enhance mutual trust, Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong said on Wednesday, in remarks that came amid an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between armies of the two countries in several sensitive areas along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh.

The second lot of donations from JackMa Foundation and Alibaba Foundation including ventilators, PPE kits and other medical supplies have arrived in Delhi, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said on Monday.

The second batch of donations that includes Coronavirus protective equipment and ventilators from Chinese charity organisations have arrived in Delhi, said Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong on Tuesday.

Expressing gratefulness over India's medical assistance to Wuhan, the epicentre of deadly coronavirus outbreak, China's Ambassador to India Sun Weidong on Thursday said that the effort was a reflection of solidarity and friendship between the two neighbours.

India will send a C-17 military transport aircraft to the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to evacuate more Indians and deliver a consignment of medical supplies to China's coronavirus-hit people, official sources said.

It is easier to shake a mountain than China, the country's Ambassador Sun Weidong said on Tuesday, dispelling concerns over the impact of coronavirus outbreak on the country's economy and its possible ripple effects across the globe.

China on Tuesday recounted the 2003 visit of India's then Defence Minister George Fernandes to the country when it was reeling under SARS epidemic even as it urged New Delhi to review restrictions imposed on trade and movement of people between the two countries in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

China on Monday hoped that India will not put trade restrictions and limit movement of people to the country in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic in its Hubei province.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met the outgoing Chinese envoy to India, Sun Weidong and emphasized that peace and tranquillity in the border areas are essential to maintaining bilateral ties.

Mr Sun said the two countries need to respect each other's political systems and development paths, and uphold the principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs and avoid "misunderstanding and miscalculation".

China-India relations have significance not only for the two countries but also have a great bearing on the region and the world at large, Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong has said.

Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Weidong thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for offering prayers and sympathy over the passenger plane crash in China's Guangxi on Monday.

Australian High Commissioner Barry O'Farrell on Friday hit back at Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong for objecting to his comments about Chinese actions the South China Sea, and asserted that Beijing should refrain from actions that could unilaterally alter the status quo in the region.

China is not an expansionist power or a "strategic threat" to India, Chinese ambassador Sun Weidong said today, underscoring the peaceful relations between the two nations over centuries. "We have never been aggressive and pursued own development at expense of other countries," tweeted the envoy, amid the ongoing disengagement process between India...

China and India should be partners rather than rivals, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said on Friday, adding that the two countries should build mutual trust and should not allow differences to interfere with bilateral relations. However, claiming that China was "neither a warlike state nor an assertive country", he said, "The right and wr...

China and India should never let their differences shadow the overall bilateral ties and must enhance mutual trust, Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong said on Wednesday, in remarks that came amid an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between armies of the two countries in several sensitive areas along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh.

The second lot of donations from JackMa Foundation and Alibaba Foundation including ventilators, PPE kits and other medical supplies have arrived in Delhi, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said on Monday.

The second batch of donations that includes Coronavirus protective equipment and ventilators from Chinese charity organisations have arrived in Delhi, said Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong on Tuesday.

Expressing gratefulness over India's medical assistance to Wuhan, the epicentre of deadly coronavirus outbreak, China's Ambassador to India Sun Weidong on Thursday said that the effort was a reflection of solidarity and friendship between the two neighbours.

India will send a C-17 military transport aircraft to the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to evacuate more Indians and deliver a consignment of medical supplies to China's coronavirus-hit people, official sources said.

It is easier to shake a mountain than China, the country's Ambassador Sun Weidong said on Tuesday, dispelling concerns over the impact of coronavirus outbreak on the country's economy and its possible ripple effects across the globe.

China on Tuesday recounted the 2003 visit of India's then Defence Minister George Fernandes to the country when it was reeling under SARS epidemic even as it urged New Delhi to review restrictions imposed on trade and movement of people between the two countries in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

China on Monday hoped that India will not put trade restrictions and limit movement of people to the country in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic in its Hubei province.