China must agree with India to challenge the United States, writes EPN’s Asian correspondent Mika Hentunen.
Mika Hentunenase-Correspondent
Pekking The Chancellor and the Deputy Minister rarely receive as much attention as Shri Vikram Misri arrive tomorrow Sunday to Beijing.
India’s deputy head Minister will meet the highest leadership of China’s foreign policy, possibly even the president and the Communist Party Secretary General XI Jinping.
In addition to the relationships between countries, the Chinese are interested in news from Washington.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam jaishankar represented his country on Monday of the US President Donald Trump in the inauguration. On Tuesday, he attended a Quad Alliance Foreign Ministry meeting in Washington.
Quad is a four -country network focusing on Asian and Pacific security cooperation. The countries are the United States, Japan, India and Australia. China is hostile to the network.
At the Quad meeting discussed the elimination of threats related to maritime transport, technology and transport chains. The statement does not mention China by name, but no one remained unclear to which the ministers referred to the regional threat.
China and the United States are in hostile camps. The trade war has continued for seven years, and Trump has threatened to fall for more customs to Chinese.
China’s and US military bulging is escalating. Cooperation is reduced in all areas. For example, there are only about 700 US students in China, compared with 11,000 in 2019.
Also the relationship between China and India are tight.
For decades, the countries have been controversial to where the border between the countries is running in the Tibetan highlands. In 2020, the situation escalated into a border hack, which died at least 20 Indian soldiers and several Chinese soldiers.
The countries had a preliminary agreement in the dispute in October. In Beijing, Misri negotiates the practical implementation of the agreement, such as border patrols and pulling troops from the area.
Misri’s meetings in Beijing are now being watched throughout the world.
This is because Trump’s return to the US President has made Asian giant states look at their foreign and trade policy while warming up their mutual intervals.
Chinese forum for political And there is a BRICS interface of developing countries for its financial conquest. It currently includes ten Asia, Africa and South American countries. The main countries of BRICS are China, India and Russia.
Russia has found new markets for its natural gas and oil in BRICS, especially China and India through the Ukrainian invasion war. In a counter -trade, it acquired weapons and defense supplies from India for over EUR 3.8 billion last spring.
In order to develop BRICS, a credible counter -power for the United States, China must reach an agreement with India. It is easier to say than done, as the countries compete heavily with each other.
India rose past China the other summer The most populous state in the world. The Indian economy is already the fifth largest in the world. Its gross domestic product grows faster than any other major economy in the world.
Many Finnish companies have also turned their gaze from China to India. There is an affordable workforce, just like China 20-30 years ago.
India’s political influence is also growing.
It advertises itself as the only superpower that can collaborate with almost everyone – just as US or with Israel.