The Dec. 18 Global Times, in an editorial “Border Peace Serves Shared Interests of China, India,” argues that India and China, in solving and moving past their border disputes, will produce peace, strengthen the two countries’ ties, and act as a powerful force for the world. The editorial appears as Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met in Beijing Dec. 18 to discuss bilateral issues, with a focus on the border.
Global Times invokes that “Both China and India are ancient civilizations whose interactions transcend even the formidable barrier of the Himalayas,” where much of the boundary between the two countries lies. Global Times states that the “border standoff since 2020” in which, in a confrontation, soldiers from each country died, “dealt a blow to the bilateral ties of the two biggest developing countries, which does not serve the fundamental interests of both countries.” This relationship brightened, when “the meeting between President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, in Kazan, Russia on Oct. 23, the first in five years, set the stage for narrowed differences, greater consensus building, ease, cooperation, peace, and tranquility on the border.”
