Big difference in Indian and Chinese statements after Modi-Xi talks: Cong

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The Congress Saturday raised questions on the Union government’s assertion that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to “direct their relevant officials to intensify efforts at expeditious disengagement and de-escalation” of troops along the Line of Actual Control, pointing out that there was a “fundamental” difference in the statements put out by New Delhi and Beijing after the high-level talks. The main Opposition party said the readouts issued by New Delhi and Beijing after the Modi-Xi meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa were as different as “chalk and cheese”. Senior...