Need to properly address differences: Chinese envoy to India

New Delhi: Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, China on Thursday pitched for concrete actions to march together with India while underlining the need for going “beyond the mode of differences management” and jointly making the “cake of cooperation even bigger”.
Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said the two countries needed to look at each other positively and “properly address differences through dialogue and consultation and expand consensus.” Addressing a gathering on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Weidong said the two countries needed to move “under the guidance of the important consensus” between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and “continue to unleash the positive effects of the Wuhan informal summit” and “move in the right direction”.
The two neighbours needed to “transmit the leaders’ consensus to all levels, and gather positive energy to promote the development of China-India relations,” he said.
“It is necessary to go beyond the mode of differences management, focus on actively shaping the bilateral relations and jointly make the cake of cooperation even bigger,” the Chinese envoy told the gathering, which included senior officials of the External Affairs Ministry and some politicians.
“China and India as major emerging countries need to actively explore ways to get along with each other. We need to view each other as positive factors in the changing world landscape, and regard each other as partners in realising our development dreams in a positive, open and inclusive manner,” Weidong said.