By Ankit Panda
The Indian prime minister will visit China for the first time in May.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China in May this year. Sushma Swaraj, the Indian foreign minister, made the announcement during her ongoing three-day visit to China. Modi’s visit to China will be his first since coming to power in India’s general elections last May. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited New Delhi in September 2014. The announcement of Modi’s impending trip to Beijing comes shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama visited New Delhi as the chief guest at India’s Republic Day parade.
“Mr Modi is going to come in May. I will give them dates today. This is a preparatory visit,” Swaraj told the press in Beijing. According to reports from Beijing, Xi, in a rare gesture, will take Modi to his home province of Shaanxi. Modi practiced unorthodox diplomatic protocol himself during Xi’s India trip when he chose to receive the Chinese president in his home state of Gujarat.
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