The South China Morning Post (January 9) said that in a post on the CICIR website on January 5, Hu
Shisheng, Director of the Institute of South and Southeast Asian and Oceanian Studies and a border expert
at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), suggested that 'In the face of rising
Western hostility, Russia ‘would not want to see India and China fighting with each other’. He explained 'A
Russia-India-China platform, as proposed by President Vladimir Putin, would ‘increase the stability factor
in general Sino-Indian relations’. According to Hu Shisheng 'A new platform for a Russia-India-China
summit, if achieved, could also “enable more active strategic interactions among the three countries, which
would also increase the stability factor in general Sino-Indian relations”. Hu Shisheng observed that no major clashes had broken out at the border in 2021, while two minor conflicts – in August and in October, “were
handled effectively at the first moments and this has demonstrated that the two countries have paid great
attention to the peace and stability in the border regions.” He said India and China can work on cooperation,
including on pandemic control, counterterrorism measures, regional stability and climate change, which
would help ease bilateral ties adding that “After two years of mutual adjustment, both sides seem to have
found a new way of getting along.”
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