Modi-Xi talks: China is playing hardball; India can’t let G20 summit needs distract it from border issue
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Modi-Xi talks: China is playing hardball; India can’t let G20 summit needs distract it from border issue

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The subplot to the BRICS summit, the inherent tension between founding members India and China, is threatening to engulf and overshadow the main plot. According to media reports and a briefing conducted by India’s ministry of foreign affairs on Thursday, prime minister Modi told Xi — their first interaction since the tête-à-tête at Bali G20 summit last year — that normalization of ties depends on maintenance of peace and tranquility in the border areas and observing and respecting the LAC. In a conversation with President Xi Jinping of China, Prime Minister highlighted India’s concerns on the unresolved issues along the LAC in the Western sector of the India-China border areas." There is no mention of ‘LAC’, or “unresolved issues” at the border, nor is there any acknowledgement that Modi and Xi agreed on “expeditious disengagement and de-escalation” of troops, as stated by India. Whereas India says that peace and tranquility in the border areas, resolution of the current standoff and respecting the agreements, mechanisms and protocols that have been put in place over the years are imperative for normalcy in ties, China is suggesting that these issues may only be addressed if the boundary issue is delinked from the larger ties, mutual trust is restored, and “disturbances and obstacles” are removed — suggesting reversal of trade, geopolitical, geoeconomic and policies related to national security.

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