China newspaper hits out at PM, accuses Modi of ‘playing little tricks’ over border issues

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China, a Chinese columnist in a state-run newspaper said that Modi is “playing little tricks” over border disputes and security issues, hoping to boost his domestic prestige and increase his leverage in negotiations with China, reports PTI.

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Writing in the Chinese Communist party-run Global Times, Hu Zhiyong — a research fellow with the Institute of International Relations at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences — said that Modi’s diplomatic moves last year have proven that he is a pragmatist, rather than a visionary.

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