Focus On Cooperation Than Conflict, Rajnath Singh Tells China’s Defence Minister In Laos
India-China Ties: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, on Wednesday on the margins of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus and discussed the future roadmap between both sides for “rebuilding mutual trust and understanding”. This comes a day after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister and Member, Politburo, Communist Party of China (CCP), met in Brazil to finalise the “next steps” in the bilateral ties.
The meeting between both the defence ministers happened after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Kazan, Russia, which brought the much needed thaw in the bilateral relationship after it nosedived following the military standoff in the eastern L...