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It is right choice for China, India to be partners contributing to each other's success, realize 'dragon-elephant tango', Chinese VP tells Indian FM

Global Times

By Fan Anqi Published: Jul 14, 2025 04:55 PM

Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said on Monday that China and India are both major developing countries and important members of the Global South and it is the right choice for both sides to be partners contributing to each other's success and realize the "dragon-elephant tango," when meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Beijing.

Han said, last October, Chinese President Xi Jinping had a successful meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kazan, leading China-India relations to a new starting point.

Han called on both sides to further implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, adhere to the high-level guidance, steadily advance pragmatic cooperation, respect each other's concerns, and promote the sustained, healthy, and stable development of China-India relations.

Jaishankar, who is in China to attend the Meeting of the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States to be held in Tianjin on Tuesday and pay a visit to China, said that following the meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi in Kazan, India-China relations have shown steady improvement.

The Indian side stands ready to take the consensus reached by the leaders as guidance to maintain the momentum of bilateral ties, advance mutually beneficial cooperation, and enhance communication and coordination within multilateral mechanisms, Jaishankar added.

India supports China in hosting this year's Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit as the rotating chair, Jaishankar said.

In a post on X, Jaishankar said he noted improvements in bilateral relations, and expressed confidence that discussions during his visit "will maintain that positive trajectory."

The Indian Foreign Minister's first visit to China in five years comes in the context of the meeting between the leaders of China and India during the BRICS Summit in October last year, which has promoted the continuous improvement of bilateral ties.

"Jaishankar's visit sends an important signal of ongoing detente in the two countries' relations," Qian Feng, director of the research department at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University, told the Global Times.

"Implementing the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and further improving China-India relations are key points of discussion, which may specifically include mutual journalist exchanges, resuming normal people-to-people exchanges, and other issues of particular concern to India," Qian said.