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| Gains from Li’s visit | | Appreciable thinking on border row | |
WHEN the Chinese make
a plan they execute it in
time and with full concentration. Therefore, when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stated in New Delhi on Monday that “India and China have not shied away from addressing the boundary question, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution…”, he gave the hint that Beijing was working on a blueprint for this purpose. Even before he was to fly to New Delhi, China made it clear that it was “working very hard” with India to settle the boundary dispute at an early date. A lot of meaning can be read into the statement as the Chinese would earlier talk in a different language while referring to the border dispute.
So far, it was believed that China was not as much bothered about settling the boundary dispute with India as in expanding economic relations. It was pointed out that the Chinese saw wisdom in keeping aside a sensitive and difficult question like the one relating to borders with India and concentrating on areas like trade and investment where both countries could make immense gains. But now its language has changed. Perhaps there is realisation that a disputed boundary can anytime create a situation when much of the gains made on the economic front can be nullified. The crisis that developed after the incursion by Chinese soldiers in Ladakh threatened to get worsened, but tempers cooled as the Chinese decided to withdraw their soldiers to the point where they were before the upsetting incident occurred.
Obviously, China wants to avoid a military conflict with India under all circumstances as such an engagement between the two, even of a limited scale, can affect adversely its larger objective of attaining the status of the future super power of the world. China has grown so big in size militarily and economically that it does not have to compete with India. Only cooperative competition suits both countries. India, too, has been of the opinion that the two countries must find a way to live as friendly neighbours. The eight agreements signed by the two sides in New Delhi cover mostly areas which have been potential causes for tension between the two Asian giants.
Thus, it’s an appreciable approach to make the border dispute a thing of the past. |
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