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With Doklam standoff resolved, PM to visit China:
Context
- India announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be paying a three-day visit to China, even as Bhutan welcomed the diplomatic end of the border crisis.
Statement by The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
- MEA announced that Mr. Modi’s visit to China for the BRICS summit will be followed by his visit to Myanmar.
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will be visiting Xiamen, in China’s Fujian province during September 3-5, 2017 to attend the 9th BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa] Summit.
- The trip is likely to include a one-on-one meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping on September 4.
- The meeting between the two leaders will be the first since they exchanged courtesies during the July 7-8 G20 summit meeting in Hamburg.
- India on Monday declared de-escalation of the two-month-long standoff on the Doklam plateau that had led to dramatic rise in tensions.
