{"id":298967,"date":"2018-06-19T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T05:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298967"},"modified":"2018-06-28T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:33:58","slug":"chinese-envoy-calls-for-india-china-pakistan-trilateral-summit-to-strengthen-regional-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chinese-envoy-calls-for-india-china-pakistan-trilateral-summit-to-strengthen-regional-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese envoy calls for India-China-Pakistan trilateral summit to strengthen regional ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-298968 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chinese-amb-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"401\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">China&#8217;s envoy to India Luo Zhaohui on June 18 called for a trilateral summit among India, Pakistan and China on the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to strengthen regional ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He said the idea of the summit came from Indian friends, &#8220;Some Indian friends suggested that India, China and Pakistan may have some kind of trilateral summit on the sidelines of SCO. So, if China, Russia and Mongolia can have a trilateral summit, then why not India, China and Pakistan?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Maybe not now, but in the future, that is the great idea,&#8221; Zhaohui said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;India had not received any such suggestion from the Chinese Government&#8221;, Raveesh Kumar, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that in responding to envoy&#8217;s comment on the India-China-Pakistan trilateral summit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;China cannot stand another Doklam, we need to control, manage, narrow differences through expanding cooperation. The boundary question was left over by history. We need to find a mutual acceptable solution through Special Representatives,&#8221; Zhaohui said while speaking at a seminar titled &#8220;Beyond Wuhan: How Far and Fast Can China-India Relations Go&#8221; in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Kumar said, \u201cWe consider the statement as the personal opinion of the ambassador. Matters related to India-Pakistan relations are purely bilateral in nature and have no scope for involvement of any third country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cTies between China and India are &#8220;multifaceted and complicated, calling for special care and attention,\u201d\u00a0Zhaohui added,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He also stressed on need for &#8220;5Cs&#8221; to help boost India-China relations \u2013 via communication, cooperation, contacts, coordination and control.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s envoy to India Luo Zhaohui on June 18 called for a trilateral summit among India, Pakistan and China on the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to strengthen regional ties. He said the idea of the summit came from Indian friends, &#8220;Some Indian friends suggested that India, China and Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[666,2785,574,2786,48,1882,2787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299444,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298967\/revisions\/299444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}