{"id":117252,"date":"2021-07-09T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=117252"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T04:42:32","slug":"confronting-xi-india-should-engage-both-the-dalai-lama-and-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/confronting-xi-india-should-engage-both-the-dalai-lama-and-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting Xi: India should engage both the Dalai Lama and Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/toi-editorials\/confronting-xi-india-should-engage-both-the-dalai-lama-and-taiwan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/toi-editorials\/confronting-xi-india-should-engage-both-the-dalai-lama-and-taiwan\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Synopsis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has adopted a confrontational attitude against India as seen from last year\u2019s unilateral aggression in the Galwan Valley region of Eastern Ladakh. In this scenario, India needs to recalibrate its China strategy and engage with both the Dalai Lama and Taiwan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dalai Lama\u2019s 86th birthday made headlines after the Indian PM <\/span><b>greeted the Tibetan spiritual leader<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The public acknowledgement is a <\/span><b>subtle recalibration in the China policy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as he\u2019s persona non grata for China.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In literal terms, the phrase is Latin for &#8220;an unwelcome person.&#8221; The term in a diplomatic sense refers to a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a certain country is prohibited by that country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Dismal state of India- China relations in recent times<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, China unilaterally invaded the Eastern Ladakh region and violated the border agreements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India negotiated a disengagement this year at one friction point \u2013 Pangong Tso. However, there has been no progress on disengagement in Demchok, Gogra, Hot Springs and Depsang.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese President\u2019s speech, delivered on the occasion of centenary celebrations of Communist Party of China (CPC), signalled a strong confrontational attitude against India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China\u2019s actions and their scale have altered the bilateral relationship. Due to this, the Indian Government has begun to <\/span><b>scale back the economic engagement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Noticeably, in keeping China out of the forthcoming 5G transition and parts of the tech market.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Lesson for India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important takeaway for India is that the size and the sophistication of the domestic economy matters in securing strategic interests.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China\u2019s increasing belligerence has accompanied its growing economic clout that is backed by a $14.7 trillion GDP.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Way Ahead<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As India works on its economic transformation, it should <\/span><b>deepen its ties with Taiwan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a global leader in semiconductors. Deepening ties will simultaneously serve India\u2019s economic interests and send China a message.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Military commanders from both the countries are scheduled <b>to meet for the 12th time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The meeting should be duly leveraged by India to work out a disengagement plan from the remaining friction points on the LAC in eastern Ladakh.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/toi-editorials\/confronting-xi-india-should-engage-both-the-dalai-lama-and-taiwan\/\u00a0 Synopsis: China has adopted a confrontational attitude against India as seen from last year\u2019s unilateral aggression in the Galwan Valley region of Eastern Ladakh. In this scenario, India needs to recalibrate its China strategy and engage with both the Dalai Lama and Taiwan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Background: The Dalai Lama\u2019s 86th birthday made headlines after the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/confronting-xi-india-should-engage-both-the-dalai-lama-and-taiwan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confronting Xi: India should engage both the Dalai Lama and Taiwan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704808323},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}