Setting aside their border dispute could transform their relationship—and geopolitics
. Now the tectonics of the trans-Himalayan relationship are shifting. Recent border bloodshed suggests mounting hostility. But blossoming economic ties tell a different story that could trouble America and its allies.
China’s generals tend to dismiss India, too. China’s crushing victory in a border war in 1962 is recalled with pride. And they contrast China’s current arsenal of home-grown modern weaponry with India’s continuing reliance on Russian imports. “There’s no way that India can catch up with China in the next 20-30 years,” says Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo of China’s Academy of Military Science.
The war in Ukraine has provided another spur. Indian commanders fret about their dependence on Russian arms. India wants to buy advanced American weaponry and to make more in India. In Washington in June the prime minister, Narendra Modi, made progress, with deals to buy armed aerial drones and to jointly manufacture fighter-jet engines in India.
China is pushing for another round of talks and urging India not to let the border issue define the bilateral relationship. India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, met his Chinese counterpart in Jakarta on July 14th and discussed the frontier. In recent weeks he has stressed that without a peaceful and stable border, normal business ties cannot be resumed.
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