How India plans to engage with China in Modi 3.0
PM Narendra Modi With former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and other members of a Congressional delegation in Delhi on Thursday. The delegation had met the Dalai Lama earlier.(PTI)
It is four years this week since the Galwan clashes of June 15,2020 that rocked India-China ties, and the border standoff is yet to be resolved. About 50,000 to 60,000 troops are still deployed on each side of the border. Managing the relationship with China is the most pressing challenge for the Indian PM Narendra Modi government in its third term.
The PM is likely to be likely to be in the same place at the same time as China’s President Xi Jinping during the leader’s summit of the Shanghai Cooperation organization(SCO) in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, on July 3-4. It remains to be seen if a meeting takes place between the two leaders, and whether it leads to a breakthrough.
“We hope that India will work with China, approach the bilateral relation from a strategic height and long-term perspective, keep building trust and engaging in dialogue and cooperation, and seek to handle differences appropriately to put the relationship on a sound and stable,” the spokesperson said.
As the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi commences, the world is watching keenly what changes and continuities emerge. While Modi might appear to be constrained by the compulsions of domestic politics, it is unlikely to have much of an impact on India’s external engagements. Modi has fundamentally altered the way India engages with the world, and that trajectory will continue to unfold over the next five years under his leadership. This is a critical moment in the global order and India’s centrality to the emerging order is now well-established. With the Modi government continuing in office, it offers India’s partners and adversaries a new opportunity to assess their ties with New Delhi.
