CHINA-INDIA: CHINESE AMBASSADOR WARNS INDIA NOT TO ACCEPT WESTERN THEORY OF GEOPOLITICS AS INDIA AND CHINA WOULD THEN VIEW EACH OTHER AS THREATS
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Reporting Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong's description of his tenure in India of more than
three years as "unforgettable," Global Times (October 27) quoted Sun Weidong as saying in
his farewell remarks that China and India should break out of the "geopolitics trap," warning
that if the Western theory of geopolitics is applied to the China-India relationship, then major
neighbouring countries like China and India will inevitably view each other as threats and rivals.
Sun Weidong's farewell remarks, which were issued on the website of the Chinese Embassy in
India on October 25 evening, said that geographical proximity should be "an opportunity for
us to have more interaction and cooperation, tap our potential and learn from and complement
each other."
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