As India is set to virtually host Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, former Indian diplomat KP Fabian has said that expansion of membership could be one of the key points of discussion in the meeting tomorrow.
Speaking at the India International Centre, he acknowledged the challenges in the India-China relationship, stating that the abnormal state of the border remains a key factor in shaping the overall relationship.
Under President Xi Jinping, China has grown more militaristic, aggressive, and hostile, however, India will be one key to countering China, reported Washington Examiner.
Rather than putting "Wolf Warriors" to defend China's aggressive expansionist policies, China should change its mindset and learn to respect the territorial integrity of other countries.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at length on the development of new centres of economic power, and financial and political influence and stated that China and India are already ahead of the United States and EU members in a number of ways when it comes to it.
Calling the China-India border situation 'stable' at the moment, Vice Foreign Minister, Sun Weidong told Indian Ambassador to China, Pradeep Kumar Rawat that the two sides should stand high and look far, and view bilateral relations from a comprehensive and long-term perspective.
The shift underscores the opportunities for India to deepen its partnership with the United States and its Asian treaty allies, along with the balancing act that New Delhi must maintain with Moscow, which has drawn closer to Beijing amid the war in Ukraine.
Lavrov during the conference said that countries are developing economically, look at China and India (our strategic partners), Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt and many African countries.
Expert in India-China relations Professor Lin Minwang, in a statement, said, "In a way, it was not surprising that both sides would clash in the eastern section of the border."
India appears to have left behind the baggage of 1962. In all the subsequent confrontations, be it in Nathu La and Cho La in Sikkim in 1967, in Sumdorong Chu in Arunachal Pradesh in 1986, or in Galwan in Ladakh in 2020, the Indian army had the upper hand over the Chinese. Beijing's days of b
The Indian Air Force is keeping a close watch on Chinese drone activities along the Line of Actual Control in the North-East as on many occasions they have tried to fly towards the Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control.