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India-China Relations: A Much Needed Step for Global Peace and Stability
Improvement of their relations is highly beneficial for both the countries and in addition also increases the prospects of justice-based peace and stability at world level.
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India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met the Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi in Beijing on August 25. Both sides issued statements signifying progress in the their efforts to improve relations and resolve differences.
More than a third of all the people in the world live in these two countries. Both are ancient civilizations with many achievements. Improvement of their relations is highly beneficial for both the countries and in addition also increases the prospects of justice-based peace and stability globally at a time when this is much needed.
Global Population Share
>1/3
of World Population
Live in India & China
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While these efforts of improving relationship are certainly not directed against anyone else, nevertheless, these acquire added significance due to the recent and ongoing tendency of the U.S. President to conduct international relations in ways that are unprecedented in terms of their three A’s: arrogance, arbitrariness, and aggression. The most recent example of this was incidentally visible on the same day—August 25—in the use of these three A’s by Mr. Trump against a country that, for as long as one can remember, has been the most friendly neighbor imaginable. If this is the way Canada has been treated, surely there are good reasons for other countries to seek improved safety and stability in improving their relations. So while the improvement of relations between India and China would have been welcome in any circumstances, there is certainly additional rationale for this in these troubled times.
The need and potential for achieving benefits for all involved sides by improving relationships certainly exists in the context of BRICSBRICSAn acronym for the association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. countries, particularly the five original members whose initiative for forming the group has often evoked the resentment from the USA.
The BRICS leaders’ summit is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on September 12-13, and it is good that the talks for improving relations were held before this by India and China.
As per present plans, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to come for the BRICS summit (he’ll be visiting India after a gap of seven years) with a significantly large delegation of officials, as well as business and media representatives.
On the day of the India-China talks—August 25—India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar visited Moscow and held wide-ranging talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. of India S. Jaishankar visited Moscow and held wide-ranging talks with the Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov. This visit and talks will also be helpful in the context of the planned visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to New Delhi for the BRICS leaders’ summit on September 12-13.
To return to the India-China talks on August 25 in Beijing, a statement from the Indian Embassy said that both sides had “discussed ways to further expand bilateral cooperation, maintain stability, and ensure peace and tranquility in the border areas, and make progress on boundary delimitation, while sustaining the ongoing work on trans-boundary cooperation.”
Mr. Doval added, “I am happy that over the past year our relationship has been steadily turning to normalcy.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that both sides “held in-depth discussions on advancing border delimitation negotiations, strengthening border management and control, improving mechanism building and promoting cross-border cooperation.”
Mr. Wang Yi said, “China and India should draw lessons from history, place the boundary question appropriately in bilateral relations, and keep moving forward without stagnating, backtracking or veering off course.”
All those committed to peace at world and regional levels hope that these steps to improve the relationship between India and China will be strengthened further in the near future.
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