Overview

• Jaishankar called on President Xi Jinping in Beijing on July 15 to convey greetings from President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and to brief him on the steady improvement in bilateral ties.
• In a meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, he pressed for further de-escalation along the Line of Actual Control and urged China to avoid restrictive trade measures that hinder people-to-people and economic exchanges.
• He met Vice President Han Zheng and other SCO foreign ministers to reaffirm India’s support for China’s presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• At the SCO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Tianjin, Jaishankar underscored the grouping’s core mandate on counterterrorism and called for a zero-tolerance approach to terrorism, separatism and extremism.
• He highlighted the widely appreciated resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra and sought enhanced cooperation on trans-border river data sharing to strengthen practical bilateral ties.