Natural partners build rapport

Tap the benefits of cooperation

To further promote cooperation, India and China must overcome two obstacles, namely the geographic interference of global and regional powers from without, and resistance of interest groups from within. Whether they pass through these difficulties will shape the future of their relations.

zhgpl.com, Sept 18

As two giant developing economies, China and India have enormous common interests and huge potential for cooperation. But if their relations do not improve such potential will never be released to benefit people in the two nations. How to coordinate relations and promote cooperation in politics, economy and security remain a big challenge.

guancha.cn, Sept 18

Despite differences in politics, culture and ethnic structures, the two neighbors face the same challenge: improving the living conditions for hundreds of millions of people with limited natural resources. The challenge they face is unprecedented because it comes together with global climate change and globalization, which makes it impossible for neither of them to copy existing examples. Their development will offer new modes for the whole world.

China Youth Daily, Sept 18

President Xi Jinping's visit marks a new starting point for strategic coordination between the two nations. The expected agreements in trade, investment, finance and infrastructure will cultivate common sense for India to participate in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and further strengthen the basis of mutual cultural, political and security cooperation. With their total population exceeding 35 percent of the world's whole, the dragon and the elephant should dance, not quarrel, for the common good of the world.

Beijing News, Sept 18

Grave problems such as low efficiency, corruption and the high tax rate remain a bottleneck for India to attract investment from China, as well as for mutual economic cooperation. With the service sector taking the lead in its economic structure, India is full of investment opportunities and the Narendra Modi administration is endeavoring to improve investment conditions, which is the right move.

Huang Yinghong, a lecturer on South Asian studies at Sun Yat-sen University, International Business Daily, Sept 18