India’s foreign minister said removing “restrictive trade measures and roadblocks” is essential to improving ties between New Delhi and Beijing, in a veiled reference to China’s export controls on rare earths.
“Measures towards normalizing our people–to–people exchanges can certainly foster mutually-beneficial cooperation,” India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday. “It is also essential in this context that restrictive trade measures and roadblocks are avoided,” he added, according to a statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi.