On September 7th, 2023, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of Chinese Embassy in India Ma Jia gave an interview to CGTN(China Global Television Network). The main content of the interview is as follows:

    Q:Great to have you with us on CGTN, I’m here for the G20 summit. We’ve seen banners everywhere on the street, some have the summit's theme on them: “one earth, one family and one future”; while others urge to “give a voice to the global south”. so what are your expectations of the summit?

 A:At the invitation of the Indian government, Premier Li Qiang will come to New Delhi for the G20 Leaders’ Summit, which fully demonstrates China’s support to India’s Presidency. 

The G20 is the premier forum for international economic cooperation, and a major multilateral platform to bring major international and regional players together. 

As the world economy is experiencing downward pressure, global sustainable development facing more challenges, it is more imperative than ever for all to strengthen solidarity and cooperation to address the world economic challenges.

We hope the New Delhi Summit will focus on development, form consensus on strengthening partnership and rising up to all these challenges, so as to contribute to world economic recovery and growth and global sustainable development.

Q:Relations between China and India go way back, with over 70 years of diplomatic relations, how would you evaluate China India ties currently?

A:The China-India relations are generally stable. The two leaders keep in touch through communication. President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi had two face-to-face interactions in the past year, which defines the tone and direction for stabilising and improving China-India relations.

The border situation between our two countries is also stable. We have maintained communication through diplomatic and military channels. Our bilateral trade cooperation is close. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India,by the end of the first 6 months of this year, the export of iron ores,pepper and grapes from India to China has increased by nearly 100% to over 200% year on year, it’s quite a lot. 

It’s important for the two sides to fully implement the strategic judgement made by the two leaders, which is “China and India are cooperation partners to each other instead of threats”. We need to see the consensus carried out by all departments and agencies from the two countries, so that disturbance and obstacles will be overcome, mutual trust increased and a healthy bilateral relations brought back to the right track.

Q:As the two biggest developing countries, China and India do see eye-to-eye on issues related to the global south, and understand the significance to uphold multilateralism. how can China and India work with other developing countries to bring about mutual benefits for all?

A:China and India are both ancient civilizations and two populous and largest developing countries in the world. Both nations are the members of BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization. We are natural partners in safeguarding the rights and interests of the Global South. Actually we share extensive common interests on global and multilateral issues such as development, climate change, and human rights and etc.

China and India should further strengthen multilateral cooperation, raise voices in support of multilateralism, and work together to restore development as the centerpiece on the international agenda. We need to work together to put into action our vision of “a community with a shared future for mankind” and “one earth, one family, one future”, accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, so that the countries of the Global South could move forward side by side towards development and rejuvenation.

During India’s presidency of SCO and G20, we have maintained good cooperation. President Xi Jinping attended the SCO summit virtually and delivered important statement. Last month we jointly promote the historic step of BRICS expansion. For the coming G20 Delhi Summit, China will play its role and  work with India and all other parties to make the summit a success.