Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in Wuhan. How significant is this for China-India relations and what did both leaders accomplish? 

What some experts are calling a new milestone in relations between China and India took center stage last Friday and Saturday.  

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for informal meetings as both sides seek to improve their bi-lateral relationship.

The leaders of the two biggest developing countries discussed areas of mutual cooperation like trade and reducing border tensions.

For more on the meeting, and the China-India relationship, CGTN’s Zhao Yunfei reports.

To discuss all of this:

• Sourabh Gupta is a senior Asia-Pacific policy analyst at the Institute for China-America Studies
• Qinduo Xu is a senior researcher at the Pangoal Institution.
• Song Zhang is the Washington bureau chief for Shanghai Wen Hui Daily.
• Zorawar Daulet Singh, Fellow at Center for Policy Research, India

 

For more:

 

Xinhua Headlines: Xi expects meeting with Modi to open new chapter in China-India ties https://t.co/Cil0dkUn4E pic.twitter.com/kDHZhdVXjr

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) April 27, 2018

Visuals of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping's one on one meeting in #China's Wuhan. pic.twitter.com/j0VFwc6yQz

— ANI (@ANI) April 27, 2018

India, China agree to keep border peace at 'milestone' informal summit:

Indian premier @narendramodi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have concluded an informal summit in China. The meeting is being seen as a landmark in the rivals' bilateral relationship https://t.co/5dzEHKMuOq pic.twitter.com/yC3mfNjpUN

— DW News (@dwnews) April 29, 2018