With mounting boycott calls of its products in India, China says it values ties
China is the biggest beneficiary of the bilateral trade with India
China is the biggest beneficiary of the bilateral trade with India
The June 15 flare up was the biggest confrontation along the LAC between the two forces after their 1967 clashes in Nathu La when India lost around 80 soldiers and China lost over 300 PLA personnel
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“What happened in Galwan was premeditated and planned action by China which was responsible for the sequence of events.”
China needs to understand that India will continue to develop infrastructure on its side of the LAC, including feeder roads, like China, and continue to build its own capability to avert a contingency.
The casualties on the border are the first ones since 1975 signalling an escalation of the border stand-off.
The UAE, a close and influential US military ally, has been a major focus of Israel”s efforts in recent years to quietly improve ties with Gulf Arab countries that share its concerns about Iran.
“Good relations between Russia and China and good relationship between Russia and India are two factors which provide a good opportunity for finding solutions to problems that exist between China and India,”
Today, despite the Covid-19 impact on its economy, India has enough residual national willpower and military heft to compel the PLA to behave itself. If compelled, even by returning the use of military force.
Quad 2.0 has proceeded more determinedly even if slowly but the Covid-19 pandemic now offers an opportunity to step up the pace; the way forward might be to focus more on the bilateral prongs of the Quad.