Chinese Foreign Minister Wang to say today that Beijing and New Delhi have to work in favor of a mutually beneficial cooperation, at the end of his meeting with his Indian counterpart Subramaniam Jaisankar, according to the official Chinese agency.

China and India should “go towards a good neighborly and friendship relationship” and “find a path based on mutual respect and mutual trust, peaceful coexistence, common development and a mutual beneficial cooperation,” said Wang.

The two leaders of diplomacy met in Beijing today, as the two opposing forces seek to restore their relations after a border conflict in 2020.

The two most populous countries in the world have been engaged in a fierce battle of influence in South Asia and their 3,500 -kilometer -long borders are a constant source of tensions.

Relations between the two neighbors worsened after a violent conflict in 2020 in a border area of the Himalayas, which claimed the lives of at least 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese. In October, the two sides agreed to organize patrols in the controversial areas.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Monti and Chinese President Xi Jing have met for the first time in the last five years last October and have agreed to work to improve their bilateral relationships.

New Delhi is concerned about Beijing’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean, an area that India considers to be clearly in its sphere of influence.

Another source of tension is the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, whom India has been hosting since he escaped, along with thousands of Tibetans, from the intervention of the Chinese troops who suppressed an uprising in Lhasa in 1959.

90 years old, Dalai Lama states that only his organization, based in India, is authorized to appoint his successor.

China insists on her part in the fact that she will have the last reason for the identity of Tibet’s future spiritual leader.