Global Times Observer column on Oct. 28, on the resolutions against border violence adopted by China and India just before the BRICS Summit in Russia, is entitled, “Beyond Not Easy: The Strategic Significance of China-India Détente.” It continues to return to the phrase that it is “not easy” throughout, as if to invoke U.S. President Kennedy’s 1962 phrase describing the imperative of a U.S. Moon mission. Each is a difficult challenge worth undertaking. In this case, the imperative is economic and scientific progress of the developing nations.
“This once again reminds us that the process of China and India promoting mutual trust is not easy, and both countries need to move forward step by step. But it is precisely because it is not easy that the significance of the resolutions is revealed,” the editors wrote. “Officials and media outlets from both sides have consistently characterized the recent breakthrough in China-India border talks as ‘not easy.’… However, from the evaluations and analyses of the resolutions in the context of China and India, as well as broader global opinions, we see that ‘not easy’ has profound implications for Asian geopolitics and the emerging multipolar world order.”
