A Global Times editorial today expresses appreciation for Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s comments in Thailand on Aug. 18 promoting cooperation between China and India. Global Times writes that Jaishankar’s discussion of an “Asian Century” is a reference to “a much-quoted term by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in meeting with then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1988, to call on China and India to work together.”
Jaishankar presented a lecture on “India’s Vision of the Indo-Pacific” at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand on Aug. 18, saying that “the Asian Century would happen when China and India came together, but it would be difficult for this to happen if India and China could not come together,” according to Press Trust of India (PTI). “I think if India and China have to come together, there are many reasons to do so, not necessarily only Sri Lanka,” he said.
