Sino-Indian relationship...

Though national as well as international media has hyped Mr. Modi’s China visit very much but still in reality, it is an incontrovertible fact that there still exist many grave and impending issues on which both the nations are at loggerheads.

Mr. Modi’s recent visit to China, though expected to mark a new commencement in the Sino-Indian issues but still the bitter and exposed truth is that both the nations lack the much needed thing i.e. trust between each other and hence with such a low and diminished level of reliability between the nations lucidly signal out a weak base of the relationship between the two nations. In his own speech Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi clearly said that the lacunae of trust in between the two nations has held both the nations back from begetting a new beginning to rejuvenate and revive the Sino-Indian relationship. Various issues like that of Line of Actual Control (LAC), Tibet issues etc. still continue to mar the relationship between the two superpowers of the world.

In the decade of 1960s during which trust between both the nations was completely shattered, things were pretty different. China was no better than India. In fact in the year 1964 China had an overall GDP of 59 billion USD and India was not pretty much behind with a GDP of 57 billion USD but things started changing from 1967 when India’s GDP plunged to 51 billion USD and Chinese GDP shooted over to 79 billion USD and now according to current statistics China has an overall GDP of 9.24 trillion USD and India has a GDP of 1.877 trillion USD. China is now a superpower of the world and even India’s best friend Russia has started drifting towards China just like the rest of the world. With world’s greatest manufacturing industry as well as many other various factors, today China boasts of being a strong as well as well established nation while on the other hand India still needs to move a long way. Hence, understanding gap between the two nations can strictly hamper the progress of both the nations. If we continue to practice the old school thought of just managing things for name sake and leaving the disastrous topics to be dealt by the future generations, it would be nearly impossible for both the neighbors to succeed.

Today, the trust deficit between both the nations continue to act as the most prominent barriers hindering the success of Sino-Indian relationship and this was also evident from Indian Prime Minister’s speech in China in which he clearly said that the two nations can never move ahead with hatred in hearts against each other. The truth is that both India and China need each other. India is the biggest market for Chinese manufacturing industry in the whole world and hence China’s collapse is inevitable if India is not there while India too depends of China for various crucial things and hence as both the nations depend on each other so much, the trust deficit must be stifle reduced and lowered down to prevent the downfall of both the two emerging powers of the world.

Today India and China need to move ahead. Rather than just praising each other in media, we need to feel the same way in our heart too and then only a strict and effective change can be infused in the overall system in order to renovate the laggard relationship between the two nations.

Either we do it today or it will not happen at all. Today the choice lies in our hand. Both the nations need each other extensively and moreover the two share boundaries with each other. Therefore just snubbing the reality is not an option and now something must be done.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI