CHINA-INDIA: CICIR SCHOLAR SAYS PUTIN'S SUGGESTION OF A RUSSIA-INDIACHINA PLATFORM COULD INCREASE STABILITY IN INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS

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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