The Editorial Analysis: The Chinese challenge uncovers India's fragilities

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India China relations: Relevance

China has recently renamed 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh, following the six it had done in 2017.
Beijing’s new land border law: It provides the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with full responsibility to take steps against invasion, encroachment, infiltration, provocation” and safeguard Chinese territory.
The law supports — and mutually reinforces — the construction of 628 Xiaokang border villages by China along its disputed border with India.
As per available satellite imagery, at least two of border villages have been constructed on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh.
These villages would come under the jurisdiction of Beijing when the principle of ‘settled areas’ is invoked to resolve the border dispute in the future.
Recently, Political Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy, wrote a letter to Indian Members of Parliament for attending a meet organised by the Tibetan government-in-exile.
QUAD—a regional grouping involving Australia, India, Japan and the U.S.—remained a non-military grouping while Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. AUKUS, a military pact.
The unplanned withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan has also made India cautious of US tactics in case border issue with China arises in future.
The two countries have an increasingly lopsided trade relationship driven by Indian dependency on Chinese manufacturing, thus widening the trade deficit.

Informal summits like Wuhan Summit and Xiamen Declaration should not be halted.
Both India and China represent the voice of developing nations at global platforms like WTO and G20.
There should be increased P2P and cultural exchanges.
The founder and mentor of Singapore has famously said that China and India are twin engines of Asian aircraft which together can lift the continent as a whole on the new trajectory of growth.

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