China and India should be partners, not adversaries says Chinese Foreign Minister during first India visit in years amid Trump’s tariff threats

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1. SS: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar – only the second such meeting between the two sides since 2020 – when deadly clashes in the Galwan valley in Ladakh, a disputed Himalayan border region, led to a complete breakdown of ties between the countries.

   Relations are now on a “positive trend” towards cooperation, Yi said ahead of a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.

   Jaishankar said that India and China were seeking to “move ahead from a difficult period in our ties”.

   The two counterparts held discussions on a range of bilateral issues from trade to pilgrimages and river data sharing.

   Yi is also scheduled to meet India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval for on-going negotiations on resolving the boundary dispute between the two countries.

   The visit is being seen as the latest sign of a thaw in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

   The rapprochement between the countries comes in the backdrop of India’s worsening bilateral relationship with the US.

   Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump imposed an additional 25% penalty on Indian imports for buying oil and weapons from Russia, taking total tariffs to 50% – the highest in Asia.

   On Monday, White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro wrote an opinion piece in The Financial Times in which he accused India of “cozying up to both Russia and China”.

2. Vietnam and China should be partners, not adversaries… lol.

   Westerners have nothing to worry about.

3. India will be china’s friend when they give back stolen territory.

4. Anyone who reads Chinese history will never think this is real…. India did everything for China – recognise the country before everyone else, agreed on tibet take over, agreed on one China policy, denied signing major treaties in which China was left out, gave over the UN permanent security council seat that was offered to it, even “India-China brotherhood” government statements that failed to criticize China policies in everything.

   Yet got stabbed in the back in the war, hostile takeover of territory, support to Pakistan’s terrorism, screwed India in galwan, turned down several opportunities to be friends again as offered by Modi.

   Fool me once, shame on you
   Fool me several times, Chinese delight

5. ‘Hindi-Chini, Bhai-Bhai’ 2.0? No thanks!

6. A good relationship with India seems like it might be a very valuable thing, and the contested territories so minor, is there anything special about the territories that make the conflict worth it for China over the potential prosperous cooperation? Water?

   Or is India an economic rival to the degree that territorial disagreement is just a vessel for the economic rivalry? If not for domestic nationalism I wonder if just surrendering all contested territories to be able to fully focus on countering the US might not really be a bad move for China

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