Chinese minister refers to India-Pakistan tensions, says conveyed concerns

BEIJING: China's foreign minister Wang Yi on Monday said that Beijing has made clear its concerns over the recent tensions between India and
Pakistan and also conveyed its "principled position" on the issue of
sovereignty, an apparent reference to its opposition to India's decision
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"Regarding the recent tensions between India and Pakistan, we made clear China's concerns. On the issues involving China's sovereignty
interest, we also stated China's principled position," he said in his
remarks at a meeting of the high-level mechanism on culture and
people-to-people exchanges with external affairs minister S Jaishankar
by his side.

He also said that the special representative mechanism would continue to be utilised for "early harvest" to the Chinese foreign
minister also said there was need to push back "unilateralism" and
"protectionism".

The remarks came days after China objected to Ladakh being made a Union Territory and asked India and Pakistan to avoid actions that
"unilaterally change the status quo" and exacerbate tensions.

India had rejected China's opposition to its move of conferring Union Territory status to Ladakh, saying it does not comment on the
internal affairs of other countries and similarly expects other
countries to do likewise.

India has scrapped Article 370, which gave a special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and reorganised Jammu and Kashmir into two union
territories.

He said both India and China were of the view that "disputes should be addressed through dialogue and the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of all countries should be respected"We are of the view that
we need to abide by the UN Charter, respect sovereignty and territorial
integrity of all countries and to properly address relevant disputes
through dialogue. We will continue to utilise the special representative
mechanism to seek early harvest in the boundary negotiation, the CBMs
at the border areas and related cooperation to maintain peace and
tranquillity in the border areas and to finally find a fair and proper
solution to the boundary question," he said.

Referring to India's trade deficit with China, Yi said China appreciates India's concerns over trade imbalances and "stands ready to
continue to provide facilities for Indian exports".

The two countries, he said, need to think more broadly and expand cooperation in fields of investment, industrial production, tourism and
border issues.

He called for strengthening cooperation mechanisms including more defence exchanges and deepening "practical, economic and trade
cooperation".

"We need to firmly push back unilateralism, protectionism with concrete action and firmly uphold the purpose and principles of the UN
Charter and the basic norms governing international relations," he said.