The Bishkek meeting between Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping reaffirms the understanding both leaderships had reached at their Wuhan meeting in April 2018 – that India-China relations needed a reset to bring some stability into this relationship. But more importantly, the ongoing tension between Washington and Beijing has reinforced the logic that Asia’s rising powers must take more responsibility for providing order and stability in their neighbourhood.
India-China relations have witnessed much turbulence over the past few years. Convinced that only a negative policy would work, both sides between 2015 and 2017 furiously began building pressure points to keep the other off-balance. India tilted closer to the US; China towards Pakistan. Yet, neither was able to extract any concessions in their bilateral interactions.Read More…
