Chinese defence minister to visit India for 4 days

Chinese Defence Minister and State Councillor Wei Fenghe will arrive in India on Tuesday for a four-day visit. The main objective of the visit would be to implement the decisions taken by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at the informal summit that was held at Wuhan in April this year.

This visit of Chinese Defence Minister is to further initiate focus building between India and China as well as building trust between their armies.

Moreover the two sides would also discuss approaches to keep the peace along the Indo-China border following the Doklam issue and recent transgressions in Ladakh.

Wei during his visit would meet and hold high-level talks with both Prime Minister of India Modi and Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman.

According to an official, "A range of issues and options will be deliberated upon at the talks, which will be in sync with what the leadership of the two countries had agreed to in the Wuhan summit,”.

India and China are planning to deliberate on a mechanism which will ensure that both sides inform each other before they execute any patrolling in the disputed areas along the border. The other deliberations will be like setting up a hotline between the two armies in order to resolve their differences.

Sources pointed out that India would urge Wei to direct the military to scale down at the Doklam area. It said that we are positive about this visit and a host of pending and contentious issues are likely to be resolved.