China-India mutual trust, cooperation benefit common development; division, confrontation detrimental to Asian rejuvenation: Chinese FM

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Mutual trust and cooperation is beneficial to the development of China and India, while division and confrontation is detrimental to the rejuvenation of Asia, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday.

Wang made the remarks at a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing session of the national legislature.

China and India must maintain the correct strategic perception, uphold good-neighborliness and friendship, focus on development, which is the biggest common denominator of the two countries, and make BRICS cooperation more substantive to bring new hope to the Global South, Wang said.