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India-China: Good start

The tension that had arisen in the relations between India and China for the last two-and-a-half-three years, seems to be decreasing now. The armies of both the countries have started retreating from the Gogra Hot Spring area of ​​Eastern Ladakh. This is the effect of dozens of hours of talks between the soldiers of the two countries, but it seems that the most important role in this has been played by our External Affairs Minister Jaishankar.

Jaishankar has spoken to the Chinese Foreign Minister several times. He has been our ambassador to China. Apart from this, our Prime Minister and Chinese leader Xi Chin Fing is also going to participate in the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to be held in Samarkand next week. There may be a mutual meeting and conversation between the two. This withdrawal of both the armies is also relevant from the point of view that no unpleasantness should arise there.

Modi and Xi’s personal ties have been as informal and close as those of foreign leaders. Despite this, the rift started between the two after this marginal encounter. Now that will break, it seems. It is also worth mentioning here that despite the call for boycott of Chinese goods after the Galwan Valley encounter, there has been an unprecedented increase in India-China trade. This sword hangs on China’s head that a big market like India can slip out of its hands.

There is also a big pressure on Chinese policy-makers that why is India nowadays giving sleepless sleep to China by joining America, Australia and Japan in East Asia? Chinese leaders may also be concerned about the fact that the US government is extending a strategic and economic helping hand to Pakistan. In such a situation, it is natural that China should try to improve relations with India. How interesting is the fact that despite this tension, Indian, Russian and Chinese soldiers conducted military exercises together.

The decision to withdraw from Gogra Hotspring (Patrolling Point 15) is a good start but the more serious matter is of Damchok and Depsang. These matters are old, but far from resolving them, talks have not even started on both sides about them. Both sides are sticking to their respective bets. India says that Chinese forces should go to where they were on the Line of Control in April 2020. But China says that the Indian Army had infiltrated Chinese territory till the said date.

This partial agreement gives hope that both sides will now at least start talking on the remaining contentious issues. The troops of 50-50 thousand soldiers will still remain on the border-line of control of both the countries, but it is expected that they will not face any encounter. If the present partial agreement can ease India-China relations, then together the two countries can change the map of the 21st century.

Shubham Bangwal

Shubham Bangwal is a Senior Journalist at Youthistaan.com You can follow him on Twitter @sb_0fficial
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