Border Frictions with China Will Hurt India’s Development
There’s no doubt the Sino-India relationship is one of the most important for the region and the world.
There’s no doubt the Sino-India relationship is one of the most important for the region and the world.
By enhancing mutual trust, focusing on cooperation, managing differences and seeking common development, China and India could chart a new course for the dragon and elephant in the future.
If victory over COVID-19 is to be achieved, the world must come together now for the better future as China’s experience has proved this.
The importance of Xi’s a nearly 24-hour visit to India can be understood in Modi’s tweet, in which he said, “May this Informal Summit further strengthen ties between India and China.”
Experts say China and India should cooperate more to realize the anticipation
It is clear that India once again plays a balancing act at the G20 summit. The question is how long it can continue this balancing act against the backdrop of increasingly fierce geopolitical competitions.
In many Indian places I visited, I have been impressed by the profound friendship between Chinese and Indian people.
On October 22, 2018, China and India signed a comprehensive internal security cooperation agreement. This scenario was inconceivable only a year ago when troops from both sides were locked at the India-Bhutan-China border tri-junction in a stand-off for more than two months. However, both nations realized the importance of cordial relations and thus many steps have been taken since to defuse the tense situation, and to improve relations as part of confidence-building measures. There has been a strong willingness to go beyond defense exchange and cooperation, and to take a step further to include other transnational counter-crimes in the agreement. To achieve this objective, the October 22 agreement was signed by the Union Home Minister of India Rajnath Singh and China’s State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi. This cooperation includes areas such as counter-terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking, drug control and the exchange of security-related information. Notably, New Delhi and Beijing signed a Memorandum of Understanding back in 2005 to broaden and deepen defense exchanges between the two countries. The current internal security cooperation agreement is said to be the revised version of the previous MoU, which was valid only until 2015. It is expected that the consummation of this security cooperation may lead to a future Sino-India agreement on the exchange of sentenced persons. Currently, the […]
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