PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping visit to discussed two thorny issues in bilateral relations, ways to narrow the trade gap between India and China on Friday, eradicate terrorism with an agreement to join hands to fight radicalization, during talks on the first day of their second informal summit in Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu.
Vijay Gokhale Foreign Secretary said that two leaders, meeting more than a year after their first informal summit in Wuhan in April 2018, had ‘ very open’ and ‘cordial’ talks mainly over dinner that stretched to two and a half hours far exceeding the originally allotted time.
The meeting was held in Mamallapuram is the third between the two leaders since Modi’s re-election as Prime Minister and the sixth Modi and Xi sat down for their first informal summit in Wuhan in last April.
On Friday, Jinping arrived in Mamallapuram welcomed by PM Narendra Modi. Modi took Xi to three iconic monuments in Mamallapuram Arjuna’s penance, Panch Rathas and Shore temple. The monuments date back to the Pallava era (4th to 9th century) and one of the reasons for choosing Mamallapuram was highlights the contact between the Pallava kings and China’s Fujian province where Xi served as governor once.
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