A report critical of India and posted on the Chinese news portal .163.com on February 11, with the caption 'Biden made a call in vain: the frontline units of the Chinese and Indian armed forces disengaged in a planned way', claimed that the defusing of the more than half a year's crisis is "a huge bad news for the United States". It said the Modi government had created tensions with China because of populist pressure but had to back down when it realised it would suffer a lot if the confrontation with China continued for long. The report said that during Biden and the Indian Prime Minister's recent telephone conversation, the two sides did not forget to include the issue of "counter China". Claiming that "the US dual aircraft carrier battle group appeared in the South China Sea at the same time to show off its force and provoke China’s sovereignty and security", it aid "The intention of the United States in this move is obvious. It is to send a signal to Asia-Pacific allies, including India, that the United States is still the only superpower in the world and is capable of containing China's rise. However, such nonsense in Washington, Japan, Australia and other congresses will not believe it? We don’t know, but India’s Prime Minister Modi obviously didn’t take it seriously. Just after the US and Indian leaders held a telephone talk, China and India were ready to shake hands and say joy. The spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense of China announced on the February 10th that according to the consensus reached by the ninth round of the commander-level talks between China and India, the front-line units of the two militaries located on the northern shore of Pangong Lake began to synchronise and organise disengagement on the same day". The report added that the end in the near future of military confrontation on the Sino-Indian border that has lasted for more than half a year "is definitely a piece of huge bad news for the United States. The reason is simple. India was originally unwilling to join the Asia-Pacific version of NATO created by the United States, but because of the need to confront China, it had to be led by the US in its China strategy. Now that the tension between China and India is about to ease, the United States still wants to pull India against China at this time, is it possible? In fact, the reason why the Sino-Indian border crisis cannot be resolved is that the crux of the problem lies not in China, but in New Delhi, under the pressure of domestic populist forces, and has to bite the bullet and die with China on the border even though it knows that it can’t do anything to China. The consequence of this is: India’s exaggerated bids during the Sino-Indian military commander-level meeting, resulting in the deadlock in the negotiations that cannot be broken". Stating that "In order to cope with the border crisis" India has to incur heavy expenditure on armaments at a time it is burdened with the pandemic, it warned that "if the Modi government no longer takes measures to improve Sino-Indian relations and resume cooperation with China in epidemic prevention and control and economic recovery, it is estimated that it will not be long before the situation in India may fall into an unmanageable situation". It recalled that an Indian Cabinet Minister had recently "publicly admitted that the Sino-Indian border crisis was the first to provoked by India, and has repeatedly sent signals to domestic populist forces to fabricate the “success” of “taking China's advantage” on the border" and said "New Delhi’s move is to satisfy the vanity of domestic populist forces as much as possible, not to add fuel to Sino-Indian relations, and to create opportunities for the two countries to break the deadlock in the military commander-level negotiations. In fact, India is not confident of defeating China in these areas because India frequently provokes China in political, trade, and military fields. On the contrary, New Delhi knows better than anyone that India itself will suffer in the long-term confrontation with China. Therefore, the series of extreme measures taken by New Delhi against China in the past six months are, in a sense, an act against their will. The main reason is that the border tensions have been feverishly high, making the Modi government unable to find a step to end the border confrontation. In this context, fabricating beautiful lies to fool populist forces and finding a step towards ending the border crisis has become an inevitable choice for the Modi government. The crux of the continuous deterioration of Sino-Indian relations is the border confrontation crisis, and the realization of the disengagement of frontline forces is the most basic condition for resolving the border confrontation crisis. Therefore, the Sino-Indian military commander-level meeting broke the deadlock, and the frontline forces of the two countries began to disengage in an organised and synchronised manner. This actually means that China and India are ready to shake hands and say joy. It can be seen that Biden’s call to Modi was a futile call, and the troubles of the US dual aircraft carrier battle group in the South China Sea have become even more meaningless. The reason is simple: the deadlock in the Sino-Indian border negotiations was broken, laying a solid foundation for the restoration of cooperative relations between the two countries. In this context, it will become more difficult for the United States to win India to join its anti-China camp in the future".
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