UPS AND DOWNS IN INDIACHINA TIES OVER PAST 4 YEARS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met several times since 2014 amid bilateral tensions and efforts to step up ties between the two countries.

2014

SEPTEMBER Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping in Ahmedabad. Days later, an incursion by Chinese troops in Ladakh’s Chumar is reported. Modi says ‘even small incidents can impact the biggest of relationships’. The two sides successfully resolve the issue

2015

MAY President Xi Jinping hosts Prime Minister Modi in his hometown of Xian

JULY The two leaders again meet in Russia’s Ufa on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, review bilateral ties

2016

JULY India cites “procedural hurdles persistently raised by one country (read China)” as it fails to enter the Nuclear Suppliers Group

OCTOBER Modi and Xi meet in Goa on the sidelines of Brics summit. Despite trying hard, India fails to get a mention of Pakistanbased terror groups in joint communiqué

2017

MAY India boycotts the signature connectivity project of President Xi — One Road, One Belt. India’s major objection includes a key project of the OBOR, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which runs through PoK JUNE 16 Indian Army intercepts road building by the Chinese side in Doklam JULY Modi and Xi meet in Hamburg on the sidelines of G-20 meeting. The PM raises the Doklam issue

AUGUST India and China agree to de-escalate the Doklam stand-off

SEPTEMBER Modi and Xi meet in Xiamen, China, on the sidelines of the Brics summit — their first encounter since the Doklam stand-off began

NOVEMBER India says it is disappointed that “once again, a single country has blocked international consensus on the designation of an acknowledged terrorist and leader of UN-designated terrorist organisation” — Masood Azhar

2018

FEBRUARY Cabinet secretary writes to officials urging them to skip functions of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale visits Beijing to address bilateral ties

MARCH The two countries engage in a host of important meetings on border management, trans-border rivers

APRIL National Security Adviser Ajit Doval travels to China. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj later also visits the neighbouring country to lay the ground for the Modi-Xi informal summit