Uncle Mu’s international commentary analyzes Sino-Indian relations.
The relationship between India and China has recently become increasingly complex and multifaceted.
On the one hand, Modi recently participated in the BRICS summit and expressed his willingness to strengthen cooperation among BRICS countries. Of course, he also expressed his attitude towards strengthening cooperation with China and India.
This is one of the more obvious signals of improvement in relations between China and India in the past two years. Both China and India have the willingness to continue exchanges in both multilateral and bilateral fields.
But on the other hand, the Modi government has carried out targeted attacks on the business of Chinese mobile phone companies in India in recent weeks. The funds of several companies have been frozen. This has triggered our dissatisfaction and protest, and said that India This approach may undermine investor confidence in their market conditions. This is actually a warning to the Modi government's actions.
There are of course many reasons why India has a multi-faceted relationship with China.
There are not only differences and contradictions in the interests of the two countries, but also the policy guidance of the Modi government, and the reality of rising nationalist sentiment in Indian society.
In this complicated situation, Uncle Mu noticed that some Indian people's attitudes towards China have changed in a relatively objective and positive way. For example, on July 13, Uncle Mu saw a retired Indian major general, Kumar, writing in the Indian media calling on the Modi government to readjust its strategy in relations with China.
This general realizes that the game between China and the United States is deepening day by day, and India's position appears to be very delicate, and may even enter the conflict zone between China and the United States.
The current international situation is different from before, especially when there was a border conflict between China and India two years ago. For example, the Russia-Ukraine war has an impact on both China and India, and issues such as weak growth caused by the global economy are also challenges to China and India.
Against this background, he believes that the Sino-Indian border issue needs to be stabilized, and that China and India need to carry out more pragmatic cooperation in other aspects to deal with the risks faced by both countries.
He mentioned that although the foreign ministers' meeting between the two countries in March failed to further advance the resolution of the border issue, the direction of future negotiations has been clear. And China is indeed trying to improve some other issues that India is concerned about, such as Indian students studying in China.
When the two met again last week at the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the situation faced by China and India was somewhat different from the past.
Kumar believes that under the current situation, China will not take much action on border issues. Some situations caused by the Russia-Ukraine war have made China pay more attention to other issues.
At the same time, he also believes that India is currently in a difficult situation, especially on border issues. They need time to develop infrastructure along the border, reform force structures, etc.
In view of this, India should re-evaluate its stance with China because China is indeed eager to improve bilateral relations and India should seize this opportunity.
The G20 summit in November this year should be one of the better conditions for China and India to improve their opportunities. In the previous months, the two sides should focus on easing border issues and strengthen exchanges on more cooperation issues involving economy and trade.
If the two sides can reach more consensus on easing border issues before the G20 summit, this will be a very welcome step for the interaction between the two sides at the summit, and both countries should seize this opportunity.
Uncle Mu believes that there are many Indian scholars who can look at Sino-Indian relations rationally, but not many from the military seem to have seen it. Although this person is a retired general, his attitude shows that more and more elites in India may be changing their views on Sino-Indian relations. This is of course beneficial to the easing of Sino-Indian relations.
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