The leaders of China and India held a 40-minute long talk in Tianjin. Modi, who visited China after a lapse of seven years, has something to ask of China.

At the beginning of the Shanghai Tianjin Summit, leaders of all countries have arrived one after another the day before, including Indian Prime Minister Modi, who is his second visit to China after seven years.

Modi's visit, not only to the summit, but also to release a positive signal to China-India relations, by strengthening China-India interaction, the negative impact on the US-India economic and trade dispute.

Modi invites China to visit next year

After a night's rest, Modi held an official meeting with the Chinese leader at noon the following day, lasting about 40 minutes, not long, not short, after all, we will also meet with other foreign guests, but it is enough for both sides to recall the series of progress made in China-India relations in recent years, and to clarify the follow-up direction.

According to the announcement issued by the Chinese and Indian Foreign Ministries after the meeting, the overall atmosphere of the talks is very positive. India also specifically mentioned that Modi invited Chinese leaders to visit India next year.

As we analyzed before, Modi does intend to invite Chinese leaders to pay a return visit while India is the rotating presidency of BRICS next year, so as to lay the foundation for the follow-up high-level interaction between China and India.

In other words, Modi came to the SCO summit this time with the idea of hoping that China will "reciprocate". The ideal situation is to form a stable cycle of government exchanges between China and India, gradually shaking off the negative impact of the past few years.

Interestingly, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims to have extended an invitation to China, but the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' notice did not mention the relevant content.

In fact, the reason is not complicated. China and India still have a whole year to continue to promote the improvement of bilateral relations. As long as India can indeed meet China halfway, it is only natural that China should be invited to return to India.

China has shown a clear path for China-India relations.

During the talks, China made it clear to Modi that China and India need to view and handle their relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, and especially need to grasp the correct positioning of China-India relations.

In fact, China and India are mutual development opportunities, not threats, partners, not rivals.

Five years later, the Modi government should also have a deep understanding of this. Begging your neighbor is by no means the right way to get along with China and India.

In fact, since the beginning of last year, India has realized that adjustments to China's policy are necessary, so there was the Summit in Inca, and Modi's current trip to China. The two rounds of interaction between the leaders between the six months, during which time, China and India have alwaysined a fixed communication pace, is a continuous high-level exchange.

By the way, during Modi's visit to China, the Indian Congress Party was still trying its best to show off its toughness and constantly played up the border issue.

It is foreseeable that in the macro process of improving Sino-Indian relations, such noises from the Congress Party will emerge one after another, even within the Indian Party. At the same time, there will also be various external interferences.

For these situations, it is necessary to know what kind of actions the Modi government should take next. If India wants Sino-Indian relations to "upgrade again" through this visit to China, the first thing it must do is not to let the border issue kidnap the overall relationship between the two countries.

Mr. Modi, for his part, mentioned to the Chinese that Sino-Indian relations were now moving "in a meaningful direction". That is not a problem, but if you look at it from another perspective, India has detoured for a full five years before this.

Although it is not directly acknowledged in the Indian mouth, in our eyes, India's five years of confrontation gesture is difficult to say has any practical meaning, exacerbating regional tensions without saying, has also seriously delayed its own development strategy.

"Modi has something to ask for China"

The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also mentioned that during the meeting, Modi particularly emphasized that China and India need to expand bilateral trade and investment relations and reduce the trade deficit from a political and strategic perspective. Now that the world economy is facing high uncertainty, it is "very important" for China and India, two important global economies, to strengthen cooperation.

In combination with recent diplomatic trends in India, this statement is very intense, because the biggest uncertainty India now faces is the tariff dispute with the United States. The recent way the Trump administration has put pressure on India has spread from the economic and trade sector to geo-diplomacy.

It seems that in retaliation for Modi's repeated failure to answer the phone, and even his refusal to nominate himself for the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump is planning to miss this year's Quad Security Summit, and it is not ruled out that he will take a tougher stance.

In view of this, India needs to strengthen political and economic cooperation with China to hedge against negative impacts. There is nothing wrong with this strategy itself, but India needs to change its geopolitical speculation. Major country relations require strategic determination and long-term perspective. Profit-seeking and short-sighted opportunism will only backfire.

As for how to keep China-India interaction on a healthy development track for a long time, without interference from the outside world, it is necessary to constantly strengthen communication, build the correct strategic awareness of each other, and lay the full foundation for expanding exchanges and cooperation and realizing mutual benefit and win-win.

To some extent, the five principles of peaceful coexistence of the year, for the current China-India relations, still have a considerable positive significance, if India wants to live in harmony with China, it will have to summarize experience from history and learn lessons.

Thus, China-India, as an important member of the global South, has the political basis for strengthening multilateral cooperation and safeguarding common interests, and it should be said that in major international and regional issues, China-India does not lack the space for coordination.

In fact, as long as India can demonstrate by practical actions that they are really prepared to actively interact with China and establish a stable and healthy long-term framework for China-India relations, there is no doubt about the high-level exchanges that followed.