Why India-US Bond Doesn’t Worry China –
The India-China border crisis is the toughest foreign policy challenge facing Modi who invested time and effort in building a personal relationship with President Xi Jinping, only to be faced with China’s notorious salami slicing tactics and territory grab.
Despite growing economic relations and Modi directing Indian diplomacy from the very top, when push came to shove, the Chinese were “brutal” in defending their interests, Tellis said. “And they did so without regard to India’s equities, even without regard to the loss of life that they inflicted on India.”
An even more critical insight from Tellis came when he talked about how China reads India and its growing relations with the United States. Closer India-US relations neither worry Beijing, nor do serve as a threat in any meaningful way.
Beijing believes that India’s penchant for strategic autonomy will prevent New Delhi from “making that bridge towards a new…