Doklam standoff ends: India, China have huge scope for cooperation, says Beijing

Doklam standoff ends: Huge potential for cooperation between India-China

Asian giants China and India have great potential for cooperation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, seeking to cast the neighbours’ difficult ties in a positive light ahead of a visit next week by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The two agreed this week to de-escalate a more than two-month-old stand-off on their disputed border, just in time for Sunday’s kick-off of a summit of the BRICS grouping of nations, which also includes Brazil, Russia and South Africa.

It was normal for the two giant neighbours to have differences, Wang told a news briefing ahead of the summit