Xi Jinping calls for “Elephant-Dragon Tango” on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of India, links in China

Beijing, April 1: In a message marking the 75th anniversary of their bilateral relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping insisted Tuesday on the partnership between India and China for “mutual realization” and the need to make the “dragon-elephant tango” to serve their fundamental interests.
In addition to President Xi's message to his counterpart Droupadi Murmu, Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang and Prime Minister Narendra Modi also exchanged congratulatory messages to mark the occasion, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced here.
In his message, Murmu said that a stable, predictable and friendly bilateral relationship will benefit the two countries and the world, reported the Xinhua news agency managed by the State.
Development comes in the middle of efforts to reset links after more than four years of frost due to the military confrontation in eastern Ladakh.
President XI, in his message to Murmu, said that China and India, both ancient civilizations, major developing countries and important members in the world of world, are at a critical stage of their respective modernization efforts.
“The development of China-Indic relations demonstrates that it is the right choice for China and India to be partners of mutual realization and to make the” tango of dragon elephants “, which fully serves the fundamental interests of the two countries and their peoples,” said Xinhua quoting XI.
XI called on both sides to visualize and manage bilateral relations from a strategic height and a long -term perspective, to seek a means, which presents a peaceful coexistence, mutual trust, mutual advantage and a common development, so that large neighboring countries meet and jointly promote a multipolar world and greater democracy in international relations.
He also declared that he was ready to work with Murmu to take the anniversary of the links as an opportunity to improve strategic mutual trust, strengthen exchanges and cooperate in various fields, to deepen communication and coordination in the main international affairs, to jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in the border area of ​​China-India, to advance a sound and stable development of bilateral relations and global and prosperity.
For its part, Murmu said that India and China are two large neighboring countries that are home to a third of the world's population, noting that a stable, predictable and friendly bilateral relationship will benefit the two countries and the world.
She proposed to take the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties as an opportunity to promote jointly the healthy and the constant development of Indian-Chinese relations, Xinhua reported.
Earlier, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Jiakun, while announcing the exchange of greetings by the leaders, told media information here that the historic course of our bilateral relations shows that the partners who contributed to the success of the other and the cooperative dance of “ the dragon and the elephant '' is the right choice for both parties.
As part of the strategic management of the leaders of our two countries, China is ready to work with India to see and manage bilateral relations with a strategic and long -term perspective and seize this opportunity to improve strategic mutual trust and intensify exchanges and cooperation in various fields, said Guo.
He referred to the way Modi and XI provided strategic advice for the development of bilateral relations at their meeting in Kazan in Russia on the sidelines of the Brics summit last year.
The two parties implement the consensus of the two leaders and promote cooperation and obtain fruitful results.
The two countries should also deepen communication and coordination in the main international affairs, jointly maintain peace and tranquility in border areas and advance China-India relations on the track of healthy and stable development, said Guo.
To a question in terms of the two countries to celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, he said that the two parties had the will to take the opportunity to advance bilateral relations.
Details of specific events will be published in due time, he said.
After last year's meeting between Modi and XI, the two countries held a series of high -level meetings, including that of the special representatives of the border mechanism followed by the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vikram Misri, in Beijing for talks to normalize relations after four years in relations due to the Ladakh confrontation.
This year, on March 25, India and China organized a new edition of diplomatic talks in Beijing by focusing on the effective management of borders and the early recovery of cooperation and cross -border exchanges, including on cross -border rivers and the recovery of Kalash Mansarovar Yatra.
During the WMCC (Work Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination) meeting on the border cases of China-Indre, the two parties explored various measures and proposals to give effect to decisions taken during talks between NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during special representatives (SR) in December.
The next day, Gourangalal Das, the co-secretary of the Division of Asia in East of MEA, and Liu Jinsong, the director general of the Ministry of Affairs of Chinese Affairs gathered in Beijing during which they explored the means to rebuild links and have agreed to launch efforts to promote the exchanges of people, including direct flights and manasarovar resolution on kails.
During the meeting, the two parties also discussed the resumption of dialogue mechanisms in a step by step to use them to tackle the areas of interest and the concern of each and to move relations to a more stable and predictable path, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a press release. (PTI)