India and China are partners not opponents said on Sunday, India Prime Minister Narendra Monti and Chinese President Xi Jinpick, as part of a meeting on the sidelines of the Sangai Cooperation Summit.

The two leaders even discussed how to improve trade ties between their countries amidst the global uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump duties.

Monty is in China for the first time in seven years to attend a two -day meeting of the Regional Security Bloc of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran, Pakistan and four Central Asian states.

Monty told Si that his country was determined to improve its links with China and discussed a reduction in the growing bilateral trade deficit of India, almost $ 99.2 billion, while stressing the need to maintain peace and stability in the 20th of the 20th.

“We are committed to promoting our relationships based on mutual respect and trust,” Monty said during the meeting on the sidelines of the Summit, according to a video published in his official account on the X platform.

He added that an atmosphere of “peace and stability” has been created at the two -country borders of the two countries in the Himalayas and that cooperation between the two nations is linked to the interests of the 2.8 billion citizens of the two most densely populated countries in the world.

The two nuclear forces distribute 3,800 kilometers long borders that are minimally delimited and disputed since the 1950s.

Si said China and India are an opportunity to grow and not a threat to each other, according to the Chinese state -run news agency Xinhua.

“We must not … let the border issue determine the overall China-India relationship,” Xinhua said.

China-India ties could be “stable and enlarged” if both sides focus on seeing each other as a partner and not as an opponent, Si added.