In line with this political philosophy, China is flexing muscles, reasserting sovereignty and expanding its arc of influence much beyond the South China Sea, to South Asia, Africa and even to Latin America. Indian officials have often called it a “managed relationship” where border disputes and differences over Tibet or Arunachal Pradesh were kept on a slow track of protracted negotiations while the two neighbours fast-tracked their trade and economic relationships to a level that made them critical elements of each other’s growth story.īut the inexorable rise of strongman Xi Jinping coincided with muscular projections of Chinese authority and power on issues that it considered were “core” to its strategic and foundational principles, whether it be the South China Sea, Tibet, on the Belt and Road project that stood to seal China’s role as a global mercantile power.Īs Xi moves to establish complete authority over all organs of party, government and military to become one of the strongest leaders of the People’s Republic in recent times, it is clear that China has moved much beyond previous supremo Deng Xiaoping’s dictum “Lie low, bide your time”.Ĭhina thinks its time is now and whatever it does will be in consonance and pursuit of this “Chinese dream” to become one of the world’s pre-eminent economic, military and political powers in what Xi terms “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”.
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Pakistan may not have paid heed to Jiang’s advise, but with peace and tranquility being maintained on the border through a series of agreements, China and India had managed to keep the peace between them, despite a disputed border of over 4,000 km. “If certain issues cannot be resolved for the time being, they may be shelved temporarily so that they will not affect the normal state-to-state relations,” Jiang said. Speaking to Pakistani lawmakers, Jiang advised that Pakistan should adopt the India-China template in their dealings with India by not letting contentious issues come in the way of development of their relationship on other fronts, particularly trade and business and people to people ties.
In December 1996, when then state President and Communist Party of China (CPC) general secretary Jiang Zemin visited Pakistan after a trip to India, he made a very significant statement before the Pakistan National Assembly.
Modi spoke in the context of an “inter-connected and inter-dependent world” where, he said, countries may have some disputes but that should not stop them from moving ahead in “areas of collaboration,” like India and China were doing. But in the last 40 years, not a single bullet has been fired because of border dispute,” Modi said in a panel discussion at the St. “It is true that we have a border dispute with China. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said very proudly during a visit to Russia earlier this month that not a single bullet had been fired along the border between India and China for 40 years.
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