Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon embark on his first visit to China since taking office. Not long before, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his first visit to Pakistan. Within one month, China’s top leader will meet with his counterparts from India and Pakistan – two neighbors and long-time rivals.
Before his visit to China, Modi opened an account on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblog service, in order to directly communicate with China’s people. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, meanwhile, published an open letter describing his warm feelings for China. It seems India and Pakistan are in a public relations battle in China.
On May 4, ten days before Modi’s trip to China, the Indian embassy in China announced that Modi had opened a Chinese-language Weibo account. His first tweet began: “Ni hao Zhongguo! (Hello China!)”
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