COOPERATION, YES BUT COMPETING WITH CHINA?
The coming competition is between two ideologies within China - not with India
K. Subrahmanyan
Business Standard, April 11, 2010
India and China marked the 60th anniversary of India’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China with a visit to Beijing by the Minister for External Affairs S M Krishna. India was the first non-socialist country to recognise the People’s Republic. In his speech at the China Institute of International Studies, Krishna said, “As rising powers, India and China are often projected to have a competitive relationship. In the final analysis, we all are what we want to be. It is up to us to disprove such scenarios, not through platitudes and wishful thinking, but by concrete examples of cooperation.... But there is more to our prospects than issue-based cooperation. Our rise promises to alter the configurations of the global order as we have known it in a fundamental manner. We cannot accept incremental change in the way the world is currently run. The G-20 represents the first step in a new direction. Our combined efforts can help reform the systems of international financial governance much more effectively than we could by working alone. We have yet to find the right common denominators in many areas. If India and China work purposefully in this direction, the whole world stands to benefit.”
How much of this is hope and wishful thinking and how much is realisable even if both sides desire this denouement?
A few months ago, there was a sense of rising tension in the media of the two countries and thanks to the efforts of the two governments that media-generated sense of confrontation has been reversed. There is, at present, a realistic appreciation in both countries that the issues between the two countries are not worth generating the risk of a conflict in the age of nuclear weapons and globalisation involving extensive energy imports subject to vulnerabilities in transit across oceans.
The coming competition is between two ideologies within China - not with India
K. Subrahmanyan
Business Standard, April 11, 2010
India and China marked the 60th anniversary of India’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China with a visit to Beijing by the Minister for External Affairs S M Krishna. India was the first non-socialist country to recognise the People’s Republic. In his speech at the China Institute of International Studies, Krishna said, “As rising powers, India and China are often projected to have a competitive relationship. In the final analysis, we all are what we want to be. It is up to us to disprove such scenarios, not through platitudes and wishful thinking, but by concrete examples of cooperation.... But there is more to our prospects than issue-based cooperation. Our rise promises to alter the configurations of the global order as we have known it in a fundamental manner. We cannot accept incremental change in the way the world is currently run. The G-20 represents the first step in a new direction. Our combined efforts can help reform the systems of international financial governance much more effectively than we could by working alone. We have yet to find the right common denominators in many areas. If India and China work purposefully in this direction, the whole world stands to benefit.”
How much of this is hope and wishful thinking and how much is realisable even if both sides desire this denouement?
A few months ago, there was a sense of rising tension in the media of the two countries and thanks to the efforts of the two governments that media-generated sense of confrontation has been reversed. There is, at present, a realistic appreciation in both countries that the issues between the two countries are not worth generating the risk of a conflict in the age of nuclear weapons and globalisation involving extensive energy imports subject to vulnerabilities in transit across oceans.
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