BEIJING: India has conveyed that it stands with China in opposing unilateralism and a US centric view of world affairs . This is a much needed assurance for China which is looking for allies to stand up to political challenges thrown up by US president Donald Trump and comes ahead of the meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the Chinese coastal city of Qingdao on June 9-10, which will be attended by Modi, Xi, Russian president Vladimir Putin among others.

Indian ambassador in Beijing Gautam Bambawale said, “Unilateralism is not necessary in today’s world. Multilateralism and learning to live with each other is the important message which will come from Qingdao.” Speaking about the SCO summit, Bambawale said, “We hope the summit will be very successful... The Shanghai spirit is very important. It stands for multipolarity.

For countries with different systems to live together and to have peaceful coexistence,” he said. Talking to China Central Television, he said, “We believe that the message which will come out of the summit is that important big countries which are members of the SCO can peacefully coexist despite differences in their systems and that they can work together”.

