‘Modi, Xi reached a consensus in Bali’, claims China months after India termed chat ‘exchange of courtesy’

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping had reached “an important consensus” at Bali in Indonesia late last year on stabilizing India-China relations, Beijing has claimed – eight months after the brief chat between the two leaders was played down in New Delhi as an “exchange of courtesy”. India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held a meeting with Wang Yi, the director of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission, on the sideline of a BRICS meeting at Johannesburg in South Africa on Monday. A press-release issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New...