“India will never join China’s anti-western alliance”, The Spectator, October 22, 2024:
“On the 15 November Xi Jinping will mark the 12th anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party – the sixth paramount leader in China since Mao Zedong established communist rule in 1949. One of the consistent features of Xi’s rule has been China’s hostility to India. People’s Liberation Army incursions across Indian borders became a given.
So, the announcement yesterday that India and China have reached a Himalayan border agreement comes as something of a surprise.
Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar announced: We reached an agreement on patrolling [the border], and with that, we have gone back to where the situation was in 2020, and we can say… the disengagement process with China has been completed. From the beginning, communist China’s relations with India, which had gained independence two years earlier in 1947, were fraught.
Albeit socialist brothers-in-arms, Mao resented prime minister Nehru for taking four years to acknowledge China’s annexation of Tibet. Salt was rubbed into the wound when India agreed to host the exiled Dalai Lama……”
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