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India, China 'cannot stand another Doklam': Chinese Ambassador

India, China 'cannot stand another Doklam': Chinese Ambassador

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Luo Zhaohui also suggested that India, China and Pakistan could 'have some kind of trilateral summit' on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting

China's amabassador to India said Monday that India and China "cannot stand another Doklam incident". The Indian and Chinese armies had last summer faced off against each other for over 76 days in Doklam in Bhutan near the India-China-Bhutan trijunction.

Luo Zhaohui said the two countries had border issues but that they are neighbours who cannot be moved away from each other.Their relations called for "special care", he added.

Zhaohui was speaking at a summit in Delhi called "Beyond Wuhan: How far and fast can India-China relations go?"

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping had met recently in Wuhan, China for an "informal" summit.

The summit, said Zhaohui, enhanced the chemistry between Modi and Xi.

Zhaohui also suggested that India, China and Pakistan could "have some kind of trilateral summit"on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting.

Zhaohui added that the special representatives of the two countries would meet on the border issue in Bejing this year. He added that the foreign ministers of India and China would also meet in Beijing, and that the defence ministers of the two countries would meet later this year.

He finally added that India and China would jointly train Afghans.

Zhaohui also lauded Prime Minister Modi's neighbourhood-first policy, saying it mirrored Prez Xi Jinping's own policy.