{"id":34530,"date":"2018-10-31T11:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34530"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:11:31","slug":"will-engage-with-china-to-avoid-doklam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/will-engage-with-china-to-avoid-doklam\/","title":{"rendered":"Will engage with China to avoid doklam\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/will-engage-with-china-to-avoid-doklam-repeat-govt-tells-mps-4897331\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will engage with China to avoid doklam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India will remain firm and will continue to engage with China to avoid another Doklam-like situation along the border.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The Doklam Issue: an overview<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Doklam conflict started when India (Indian Army) objected a road construction by the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) of China in the Doklam plateau which China claims to be a part of its Donglang region. However, India and Bhutan recognise it as Doklam, a Bhutan territory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, China accused Indian troops of entering in its territory and India accused the Chinese of destroying its bunkers (People\u2019s Liberation Army bulldozed an old bunker of the Indian army stationed in Doklam).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thereafter China stopped the passage pilgrims heading toward Kailash-Mansarovar through the Nathu La pass, Sikkim.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Doklam standoff, which <\/span><b>began on June 16, was resolved on August 28,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with both sides pulling back troops, and China stopping construction of a road which India had objected to.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the common interest of India and China as far as Asian affairs are concerned?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has acquiesced in India\u2019s participation in the East Asia Summit and India has joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the <\/span><b>international economic system, there is no difference between the two countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both aim to pursue long-term objectives of broad parity between the developed countries and the developing and transition economies in international financial institutions. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Interlocking economic and trade relationships<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> could knit China and India closer together.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two countries have already <\/span><b>begun working together in multinational forums on such issues as climate change and environment protection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and have no real differences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They further <\/span><b>encourages international biodiversity, promote dialogue among civilizations, combate transnational crime and deals with challenges from non-traditional threats to security<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two countries also share a <\/span><b>mutual interest in keeping open the sea lanes of communication in the Indian Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, since the goods that flow from there to China go past India as well.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s and China\u2019s broad strategic goals are essentially the same, i.e. <\/span><b>preserving our strategic autonomy, protecting our people and responsibly helping shape the world.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><b>cannot be achieved by conflict, but only through cooperation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will engage with China to avoid doklam Context: India will remain firm and will continue to engage with China to avoid another Doklam-like situation along the border. The Doklam Issue: an overview The Doklam conflict started when India (Indian Army) objected a road construction by the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) of China in the Doklam&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/will-engage-with-china-to-avoid-doklam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will engage with China to avoid doklam\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704710140},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34530","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}