India, China Made Positive Strides After Modi-Xi Meeting: Chinese FM

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that India-China relations have made "positive strides" and achieved a series of encouraging outcomes at all levels after last year's breakthrough ending the over four-year-long military standoff in eastern Ladakh.

Addressing his annual press conference here, Wang also said the boundary question or specific differences should not affect the bilateral relations between the two countries.

"China-India relations have made positive strides over the past year" after the successful meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at Kazan in Russia, Wang replied to a question on how Beijing views the course of bilateral ties after the two countries ended the prolonged stalemate in the ties. Both Xi and Modi provided strategic guidance for the improvement of ties at the Kazan meeting, Wang said on the sidelines of the annual session of China's parliament currently underway here. After this, both sides earnestly followed through on the important In the meeting, the two sides decided to revive the various dialogue mechanisms.

After that, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Wang held the 23rd Special Representatives (SR) dialogue in Beijing on December 18.