{"id":315585,"date":"2019-10-11T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T09:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315585"},"modified":"2019-10-11T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T09:57:11","slug":"welcome-to-india-says-pm-modi-as-chinese-president-xi-jinping-arrives-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/welcome-to-india-says-pm-modi-as-chinese-president-xi-jinping-arrives-in-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Welcome to India\u2019, says PM Modi as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315586 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/jinpoing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/jinpoing.jpg 860w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/jinpoing-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/jinpoing-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/jinpoing-696x425.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/jinpoing-688x420.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/>Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday afternoon arrived in India for his second informal meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi since they met in China&#8217;s Wuhan in April last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Jinping received a grand cultural welcome with traditional dance performances at the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi in a tweet wrote, \u201cWelcome to India, President Xi Jinping!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi landed in Chennai\u00a0today morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two leaders have a packed schedule that includes informal and delegation-level talks, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After landing in Chennai, PM Modi expressed that may this summit will further strengthen ties between India and China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLanded in Chennai. I am happy to be in the great land of Tamil Nadu, known for its wonderful culture and hospitality,\u201d PM Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is gladdening that Tamil Nadu will host President Xi Jinping. May this Informal Summit further strengthen ties between India and China,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chinese President Xi Jinping and PM Modi will begin their second informal meeting in Mamallapuram.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday afternoon arrived in India for his second informal meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi since they met in China&#8217;s Wuhan in April last year. President Jinping received a grand cultural welcome with traditional dance performances at the airport. PM Modi in a tweet wrote, \u201cWelcome to India, President Xi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[1713,9943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315585"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315587,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315585\/revisions\/315587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}