Looking Into the Future
Xi and Modi’s second informal meeting enhances bilateral ties By Lin Minwang
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during their second informal meeting in Chennai, India, on October 12
The author is a researcher with the International Studies Institute of Fudan University in Shanghai
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held their second informal meeting on October 11-12 in the southern Indian city of Chennai, which set the tone for the development of future bilateral ties.
During the meeting, Xi said China and India, as ancient civilizations with several thousand years of history, have carried on exchanges and mutual learning until the present. The two countries’ ancestors overcame various obstacles to carry out extensive exchanges and promote the development of literature, art, philosophy and religion, which have greatly benefi ted both sides.
一个富人和一个穷人在探讨人生。富人说：“钱不是问题。”穷人说：“问题是没钱。”富人说：“身边女人很多，不知道哪个是真心的。”穷人说：“俺是真心的，身边没有一个女人。”富人说：“房子有很多，不知道该住哪一个。”穷人说：“房子住过很多，没有一处是自己的。”
Modi said China and India have become important emerging economies, stressing that enhancing exchanges and cooperation is of great signifi cance to the two countries and will promote global progress and prosperity. The wisdom from the two countries’ ancient and profound civilizations can provide inspiration for solving various challenges facing the world today, the prime minister added.
Xi visited India five years ago shortly after Modi was fi rst elected prime minister of India. This tradition was continued as Xi visited again after Modi’s second successful election bid this year. Both trips highlighted the importance of Sino-Indian ties.
“股份制”合作统一经营模式使横溪坞村竹林逐步走向规模化、集约化、效益化、品牌化的现代林业经营道路，实现了生态、经济、社会效益的和谐统一，对当地乡村振兴发挥了更为积极有效的作用。
Peace and friendship
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Border issues have been the biggest hurdle affecting Sino-Indian relations. Confrontations have repeatedly occurred in the border area.
In 2020, China and India will welcome the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties. India was the first nonsocialist country to establish ties with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Even before the founding of the PRC in 1949, the two countries supported each other in their struggle for independence from imperialist and colonial powers. Moreover, Sino-Indian ties made great headway after the normalization of bilateral ties in 1988 and the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s.
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Although there have been historical frictions between the two countries, there have been thousands of years of exchanges, mutual learning, peace and friendship, which have always been the norm in bilateral ties.
However, with the increasing gap in national strength between China and India, the latter’s strategic concerns about China have deepened. For example, it worries about China’s economic cooperation with South Asian countries and Indian Ocean littoral countries. Thus, its attempts to “balance” China with external forces have become increasingly evident, a situation caused by a lack of mutual trust.
Strategic trust
In today’s international situation, China and India should make efforts to avoid strategic competition in geopolitics and focus on economic development and improving people’s livelihood. To achieve this goal, India needs to strengthen its understanding of China’s independent foreign policy of peace.
Xi’s visit to India was agreed upon during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Qingdao Summit in June 2018, when the two countries announced that the second leaders’ informal meeting would be held in India. The China-India leaders’ informal meeting, initiated in 2018 when it was held in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, has played a significant role in bilateral relations. It has provided a special mechanism for China and India, the world’s two largest developing countries, to communicate on global, long-term and strategic issues.
More importantly, trade and economic cooperation between China and India has consisted of more than just pure trade in goods. An increasing number of Chinese enterprises have gone to India to establish factories, and Chinese firms have built a large number of Indian infrastructure projects, which provide a strong potential for future and long-term cooperation.
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After the Cold War, the simultaneous rise of China and India constituted the groundwork for today’s global landscape, which is undergoing major changes. Sino-Indian relations have transcended the bilateral scope and increasingly gained global infl uence. As Xi said during his visit to India in 2014, if China and India speak with one voice, the whole world will listen.
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The two countries have more and more cooperation and interests that overlap on the global level. They maintain close communication and coordination in multilateral mechanisms including the UN, the World Trade Organization, BRICS, the SCO and the Group of 20. In areas like climate change, energy, food security, international fi nancial institutional reform and global governance, they also share extensive common interests and cooperation opportunities.
Through negotiations, the two countries have made some progress on these issues in recent years and have reduced their military deployment in the area. The two sides have also established various long-term confl ict resolution mechanisms and communication mechanisms for border personnel, which have contributed to maintaining peace and stability in the area. With such efforts, a border control and management mechanism has been formed and the two have gradually built some basic consensus.
Another progressive step taken by the two countries is cooperation in the economic and trade areas. In 1990, the trade volume between China and India was only $170 million, but in 2000, the number climbed to $2.9 billion and surged to $95.5 billion in 2018.
Over the past several decades, hundreds of millions of people in China have moved out of poverty, but there is still a long way to go for nationwide prosperity. For example, in terms of per-capita GDP, China still ranks over 60th in the world. Based on this reality, Xi reiterated that China will work hard to achieve the Two Centenary Goals (completing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the time the Communist Party of China marks its centenary in 2021 and building China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by the time the PRC celebrates its centenary in 2049) and realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the nation. India also faces the same arduous task of governing and developing its country.
Common ground
China and India share common interests in development issues such as disease prevention and control, food, environmental protection and sustainable development.
Only by widening cooperation in improving people’s livelihood can they keep their relations on the right track and bolster strategic mutual trust.
China’s historical experience in achieving an economic development miracle in the past 40 years could be enlightening for many countries in the world. India could draw from not only Chinese economic measures, but also China’s diplomatic practices. Since the adoption of the reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970s, China has implemented a diplomatic strategy that calls for keeping a low profi le while getting something done, which has enabled it to focus on domestic economic growth and partly circumvent geopolitical competition among different powers.
Currently, competition among major powers has intensified, which has provided India with a strategic opportunity and also a strategic challenge. It is vital for India that the Modi administration adopts a wise strategy. Against today’s surging anti-globalization tide and increasing protectionism, India’s development is facing a more complicated external environment compared to the period of China’s economic takeoff.
As the countries with the biggest populations, only by joining hands and offering development opportunities to each other can China and India create benefits for their own people and be the impetus for creating new growth drivers for the Asian century.
Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo
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