Global Political Relations: China and India

Brian England

Global Political Relations: China and India

http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/jan/17guest.htm

The article I chose deals with the progressive relation between China and India through their prime ministers meeting over the last five years. It is a criticized view of the agreements on such topics as boundary, nuclear cooperation, and the Security Council. Boundary agreements were discussed at the last meeting in Beijing on January 14^th. But all that was concluded was that maps would be exchanged to understand the opposite nation’s views on the area. The same outcome was a result in the nuclear topic; the nations agreed to work together but with no specific guidelines. The writer shows criticism of any real progression between the two stressing that these meetings were a “grand illusion of a monumental achievement”. He defends this by giving examples from past meetings showing that the topics have remained the same, just reworded for the medias benefit.

The viewpoint of the writer is helpful in seeing the progression in the national relations. But, even though he makes a good point, I have read other articles in searching for my current event that dealt with this same topic and have found that China is now India’s main trader, taking over the US’s spot. In addition India is said to have be given a larger role in the UN and Security Council. Their role is not clearly depicted, but we must keep in mind that Government activity is not always shared with the public as much as they say it is. One thing we can be happy about with these meetings is that both nations agree to work their disagreements out through peaceful negotiations. The writer seems like they want an immediate response to the relationship between China and India. It would be understood that these issues take time, but after his comparisons from the last five years of meetings, many may agree with his view of it being a benefit for the media.