{"id":301772,"date":"2018-08-23T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T09:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301772"},"modified":"2018-08-23T09:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T09:21:37","slug":"china-willing-to-play-constructive-role-to-improve-india-pak-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/china-willing-to-play-constructive-role-to-improve-india-pak-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"China willing to play \u2018constructive role\u2019 to improve India-Pak ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301773 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/lu-kang-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/lu-kang-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/lu-kang.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang on August 22 said that China willing to play a &#8220;constructive role&#8221; in improving India and Pakistan ties. He said this while attending a press briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While calling India and Pakistan &#8216;important countries in South Asia&#8217;, Kang added, &#8220;We have noted relevant reports and we welcome the positive remarks made by the Indian and Pakistani leaders on improving bilateral relations.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that Beijing welcomed the &#8220;positive&#8221; comments recently made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his new Pakistani counterpart, Imran Khan, on improving bilateral ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Both Pakistan and India are important countries in South Asia. As a common neighbor to Pakistan and India, China firmly supports the two sides to enhance dialogue increase mutual trust, properly handle and solve their differences,&#8221; spokesman added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The improvement and development of their bilateral ties are very important to regional peace, stability, and prosperity. As a neighbor to both Pakistan and India, China sincerely hopes that the two sides could enhance dialogue, increase mutual trust, properly handle and resolve differences, and make joint contributions to regional peace and development. China is willing to play a constructive role in this regard,&#8221; the spokesperson noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I cannot make a prediction for you at this moment as to when and how China will do something. But it is obvious that playing a constructive role means advancing, consolidating and sustaining positive momentum.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang on August 22 said that China willing to play a &#8220;constructive role&#8221; in improving India and Pakistan ties. He said this while attending a press briefing. While calling India and Pakistan &#8216;important countries in South Asia&#8217;, Kang added, &#8220;We have noted relevant reports and we welcome the positive remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[666,574,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301772"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301774,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301772\/revisions\/301774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}