Meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, Xi said relations had maintained a steady, healthy momentum, and should continue to increase mutual understanding and trust.
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“Cultural and people-to-people ties have also been increasing”, Swarup said.
The recent unrest in Kashmir saw Pakistan openly supporting Kashmiri terrorists and separatists against India, after which, India questioned protests in PoK over rigged elections, stating that PoK PoK belonged to India.
Mr. Modi also raised with French President Francois Hollande the leak of confidential data on the Indian Scorpene-Class submarines being built in Mumbai in collaboration with French defence company DCNS on the sidelines of the Summit.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was on his visit to India recently, when he said that it was up to New Delhi to support Beijing on the South China Sea dispute or not, also making sure that New Delhi does not raise the South China Sea issue anywhere.
Modi told Xi that “our response to terrorism must not be motivated by political consideration” – an apparent reference to Pakistan, India’s arch rival and China’s all-weather friend.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday made it clear that effective financial governance requires “full commitment” to act against the corrupt and elimination of “safe havens” for economic offenders as he called on G20 members to break down the web of excessive banking secrecy.
In a hard-hitting intervention while leading from the chair, Modi in his address to the BRICS Leaders Meeting here said “terrorists in South Asia or any where for that matter do not own banks or weapons factories”.
Without directly naming Pakistan, Modi told Turnbull, “Our (India’s) neighbourhood, in particular, was suffering from destabilisation effects of terrorism”.
“We need a regular dialogue between the IMF, Regional Financial Arrangements and Bilateral Swap Arrangements”. This was disclosed by Spokesperson of the MEA, Vikas swarup to media after the meeting.
“If you read between the lines when we are talking about our strategic interests, concerns and aspirations, it is not that China is unaware of our strategic interests, concerns or aspirations or that we are unaware of theirs”.
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India’s efforts to join the grouping suffered a setback in June when the NSG plenary held in South Korea decided against accepting its membership application after China and some other nations opposed entry of a non-NPT signatory.
