Lan Jianxue: The light in the pursuit of Sino -Indian relations

On July 7, Wang Yi, a Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister, met with the Indian Foreign Minister Su Jinsheng during the meeting of the Foreign Minister of the Group of 20 in Bali, Indonesia. The two sides revolved around the situation of the BRICS Summit of the BRICS, the BRICS Summit and the Indian party that the Indian party who successfully hosted, the new crown epidemic, the Ukraine crisis, the promotion of global economic recovery, and the improvement of global governance. Consensus to inject warm currents into relations between the two countries.

During the meeting, Wang Yi also quoted the verses of Indian contemporary poets and Bollywood film songwriter Bharat Bhushan Pant, that is, "the darkness does not disappear by itself, and the extinguished light must be ignited." Fang jointly lighten up the sincerity of Sino -Indian relations in the future, and hopes that the two sides will take the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries as "mutual partners, not constitute a threat, and mutual development opportunities", and promote the bilateral relationship as soon as possible. Return to the right track. Su Jesheng said that India also looks forward to a positive, cooperative and constructive Indian -China relationship. He is willing to work with China to send clear information to the outside world, promote the improvement of the relationship, and transform the consensus and vision of the leaders of the two countries into reality.

Since the meeting between the two foreign ministers of the two countries in March this year, China and India have maintained communication, effectively controlled differences, and made positive progress in maintaining the stability of the border, promoting pragmatic cooperation, and convenient personnel. The bilateral relations generally showed a recovery momentum. Under the impact of factors such as the Balwan conflict in the mid -June 2020, the United States Li Li's enclosure and curbing and curbing, the global geopolitical situation, and the continuous tension of the global geopolitical situation. Strategic Drift state. In the context of the world's century -old changes, the global and regional conflict conflicts, the bilateral relations between the oriental powers such as China and India should never follow the waves, but always uphold the strategic determination, stabilize the differences between the two countries, focus on the two countries, and focus on the two countries. Consensus and common interests achieve their respective development and revitalization in accordance with the established goals, make greater contributions to the future of human beings, and inject positive energy and stability into the international environment of waves.

Although the bilateral relations between China and India have encountered some difficulties in recent years, the common points of the two countries in major areas and global affairs have not only decreased, but have expanded, becoming the light in relations between the two countries. During the meeting, Wang Yi appreciated the Indian side to actively support the BRICS conference and global development of high -level dialogue, saying that China also supported India to be the Chairman of the Group of 20 and the Chairman of the SCO. The two sides also agreed to support Indonesia's meeting to meet the Government of the 20th Group of the 20th, jointly promoting the meeting to focus on the topic of the center, helping the global epidemic recovery, and avoiding politics of the Group's group meeting mechanism. Both China and India adhere to the general direction of multilateralism, and both advocate jointly promoting the more democratic and fair international order of international relations, reflecting and highlighting the demands of the development of the developing state camps. The two countries coincide in many areas such as maintaining peace and security, promoting economic recovery, improving global governance, and cooperating against epidemics.

After the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine conflict, both China and India insisted on strategic autonomy and held up huge pressure from the United States and the West. Based on the Ukrainian issue itself, the right and wrong decided to determine their attitudes and positions. Solve the problem and restore peace as soon as possible. Wang Yi also particularly emphasized that China rejected any conspiracy to compare the Ukrainian crisis with Taiwan's issue, and oppose some countries to emphasize the principle of sovereignty on the Ukrainian issue. Manufacturing tensions and seeking geopolitical interests. China has also firmly opposed individual countries with the Ukraine crisis as an excuse to incite the Cold War thinking and camp opposition, and incite unilateral sanctions against other countries such as China. In the talks, Su Jiesheng particularly emphasized that India will continue to adhere to strategic autonomy in international affairs and adhere to an independent position. Recently, Su Jiesheng also explicitly refuted "European centralism" in Europe, allowing Chinese audiences to see India's independent diplomatic traditions still exist.

Of course, the contradictions and differences between China and India will not disappear in one night. Even if the old problems in the relationship between the two countries are resolved, new problems will occur. This is the normal state of the Sino -Indian relations after the Cold War. In the future, the relationship between the two countries will continue to be disturbed by negative factors such as border disputes, Tibetan issues, and provoking third countries. In April 2020, India takes restrictions on direct foreign investment, stipulating that any investment from land borders from India must undergo government approval procedures. This is actually a special measure for and discriminating against Chinese investment. The Indian side also harassing the plate of Xiaomi and vivo for various reasons to invest and operate in India for a long time, create a large number of employment opportunities for India, and greatly improve the quality of life of Indian people. These situations make Chinese investors frustrated and feel the risks and unfriendly risks in the Indian market. However, despite various barriers, China -India bilateral trade in 2021 still exceeds 125 billion US dollars, a record high, an increase of 43.3%over 2020; China ’s exports to India have increased by 46.2%to 97.5 billion US dollars. Exports also increased by 34.2%to $ 28.1 billion. This reflects the high degree of complementary economic structure of the two countries, and the economic and trade relations between the two countries still have huge vitality and potential.

In the context of bilateral relations and complex international environments, China and India should continue to use high -level interactive weapons to maintain smooth communication of the working layer to avoid misjudgment, maintain a strategic orientation that is uncomfortable, and avoid the mutual consumption of both defeats. Strengthen the stability and seismic resistance of the relationship between the two countries, and ensure that it runs stable on the orbit on the orbit of "facing each other and overall". Under the new situation, the two countries especially need to properly handle and control differences. Through the border special mechanism, they seek fairness and reasonable border issues solutions that both sides can accept. The two armies should strengthen the construction of trust measures and border defense exchanges to maintain peace and tranquility in border areas. The two sides should promote trade and investment cooperation in equal and mutually beneficial and sustainable ways to build a closer and longer -term development partnership. The two parties should also work hard to overcome the resistance effect brought by the epidemic, trying to restore the necessary personnel exchanges and ideological exchanges in appropriately. On the international stage, the two countries should improve the representativeness and speech of developing countries and emerging market countries, support the multilateral trading system, support the diversification of the global financial system, and jointly oppose people's cooperation between people to disturb the value chain of regions and the global industrial chain. Jointly promote the global political and economic order of openness, tolerance, inclusiveness, balance, and win -win. In short, under the background of major differences in territorial sovereignty and unsolved in the short term, the two major neighboring countries of China and India need to control the relevant disputes more powerful, focus on common interests, pragmatic expansion of cooperation, expand between the two endpoints of confrontation and cooperation, and cooperation and cooperation. The spinning space ensures that the overall situation of China -India relations will not fluctuate violently due to a momentary or external interference, and constantly pursue the light in relations between the two countries.

(Lan Jianxue, director and associate researcher of the Asia -Pacific Research Institute of China International Institute of International Issues, was originally published on July 11, 2022, "Surging News")

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