Will Modi-Xi Handshake In Bali Turn Into A Hug In Delhi When India Hosts G20 Summit? Answer Is, No

The military standoff that India and China have engaged in for the past three years will not be resolved by September, unlike what the popular discourse will tell you. Post the Galwan clash, Yun Sun, a Washington-based Chinese scholar, who is Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, had written that China is in “no hurry to resolve the disputes as it bogs India down as a continental power.” According to Indian Army sources, there has been no positive movement from the Chinese side in terms of disengagement and de-escalation even as both sides continue to hold innumerable rounds of talks. India’s Remains Firm On Status Quo; China Yet To Send Envoy Following the clash, it seemed as if both sides would settle the dispute by revisiting the terms of the border protocols and agreements when External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar went to Moscow in September 2020 and met his then-Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi. Recently, another Chinese scholar, Hu Shisheng, Director at South Asia Institute of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations – a Beijing-based think-tank, wrote, “In China's view, the Galwan Valley incident is the inevitable result of India's long-term violation of the 1993, 1996, and even 2005 and 2013 agreements.” Hu said, “If we want to talk about recovery, we must first highlight India’s continuous erosion of the ‘Line of Actual Control on November 7, 1959, that China challenged as early as 1959 in the past 60 years. During the meeting, Singh told Li that China’s move to violate the existing agreements has “eroded the entire basis of bilateral relations and disengagement at the border will logically be followed with de-escalation.” Jaishankar and the new Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who took over the post in December 2022, held two bilateral meetings on 2 March as well as on 4 May this year on the margins of the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting and SCO Foreign Ministers conference, respectively.