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 […]
“The perception of most people towards China has drastically evolved over the past 20 years.”
The intention of Pompeo’s visit to Southeast Asia was to promote an Indo-Pacific strategy and accelerate its launch. However, as the key country in the Indo-Pacific region, does India move to the same beat as the United States on this strategy？
At a time when the global order is undergoing a fundamental shift, some of the most hope-inspiring initiatives are being implemented by China under the visionary leadership of President Xi Jinping.
This year’s SCO leaders’ summit is going to be “a new milestone in the history of the SCO” in the light of the accession of India and Pakistan, two South Asian rivals, to the prestigious SCO consortium last year, the first ever expansion since its inception in 2001 in Shanghai.
India has benefited from Shanghai Spirit. India’s contributions have become integral to it.
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