The Sunday Guardian

NOTHING OFFICIAL ABOUT IT, BUT PRC FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI VISITS INDIA

Rather than come to an accommodat­ion with India based on mutual respect and interests, CCP General Secretary Xi and his trusted aides such as Foreign Minister Wang Yi have worked ceaselessl­y in efforts at preventing the rise of India, and indeed, in seeki

- MADHAV NALAPAT NEW DELHI

CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s handpicked undiplomat­ic and hectoring Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, arrived and exited India this week. For

Xi, domestic politics are front and centre in this year, when he expects to be confirmed as General Secretary for life by the CCP. The purpose of Wang Yi’s unofficial stopover was to enbed to Chinese Communist Party cadres the fiction that under

Xi Jinping, relations with India remained normal. The fact that the PRC trade surplus with India has reached levels not regarded as possible just two years ago has been put forward by Team Xi as illustrati­ng his point that no matter how aggressive the PRC may be in transgress­ing the sovereignt­y and territoria­l integrity of India, Beijing’s hold over the commercial aspects of the Sinoindian relationsh­ip remains impregnabl­e. Meanwhile, Xi’s Beijing appears to have no limit on its hunger for fresh territory on land and sea. This is despite the Peoples Republic of China under Chairman Mao Zedong having seized control of more than double the territory that had been ruled from Beijing in the pre-ccp period, whether these be KMT or Imperial rule. The PRC will pay a heavy geopolitic­al cost for having alienated the only other country with a billion plus population on the planet, and increasing­ly, individual­s within the CCP leadership circles are beginning to understand this fact.

There is a growing perception within the CCP that Xi Jinping has, by his actions and policies, lost the friendship of India, and may now be on track to lose the friendship of the Russian Federation as well. This is through Xi and those under him trying to be all things to all people. In the Ukrainian case, to both the Russia-targeting members of NATO as well as to a Russia that is under siege for the crime of choosing Vladimir Putin rather than a Boris Yeltsin or Gor

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