India's relations with China need to be at very, very high alert

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Those are wise words.

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Doval, a former Intelligence Bureau Chief, said "We might have to see China border in a different way once the boundary is settled."

"We have got a very long border, we have got 3,488-km long border, a very difficult and mountainous terrain snow-clad... now for the bilateral relations with China, border is the critical and vital issue," he said speaking on the topic 'Challenges of Securing India’s Borders; Strategising the Response’.

He said all advancement made in the "relationship" with China gets centred around and becomes important on settlement of the border.

"We are particularly concerned about the Eastern sector where the claims have been made on Tawang(in Arunachal Pradesh) which is totally in contravention of accepted principles," Doval said and expressed surprise that while McMahon line was agreed till Burma by China, the same was not accepted thereafter.

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India s relations with China need to be at very very high alert Ajit Doval - Firstpost

 

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India's prime minister made strong comments to China's premier on Friday, calling on the Chinese government to reconsider how it responds to India's grievances, the New York Times reported.

“I stressed the need for China to reconsider its approach on some of the issues that hold us back from realizing full potential of our partnership,” Mr. Modi said in televised remarks at China's Great Hall of the People. “I suggested that China should take a strategic and long-term view of our relations.”

The Times notes that India's long-running border dispute with China and the heavy trade imbalance in China's favor continue to undermine Modi's efforts to invigorate the Indian economy and improve relations with one of its "most important strategic" partners.

Indeed, Modi's remarks deviated from the often tepid language most Asian leaders stick to when dealing publicly with Beijing, the Times reported, a reflection of Modi's determination to "to set a new direction between the two largest Asian countries" once and for all.

“For him to say we hope the Chinese will reconsider their approach — it’s very politely put, and he added that he saw sensitivity to India’s concerns,” Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of The Wire, an online Indian news site, told the Times. “But that’s quite a strong way to put it.”

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BEIJING: In the otherwise adversarial relationship between India and China, movies promise to come to the rescue. Following conversations between President Xi Jinping and PM Narendra Modi, the two countries have agreed to co-produce three films together.

'Lost in India', a prospective film came about after Xi told Modi that a 2012 Chinese blockbuster, 'Lost in Thailand', resulted in a burst of Chinese tourists to Thailand. (Modi could have told him about 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' and Indian tourists flocking to Spain). 'Lost in Thailand' was a Chinese slapstick low-budget comedy which tickled every funny bone among Chinese viewers and even overtook 'Titanic' in box office collections.

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Real-life rivals India and China turn reel friends - The Times of India