The “Chindia reset” may gradually have a transformative effect on China—leaving the founding vision of America for a “Pacific” Asia behind.
May 6.– For all the global attention paid to the historic inter-Korean summit at Panmunjom, a less covered and informal summit is likely to be as consequential.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met at Chairman Mao Zedong’s summer villa in Wuhan of Hubei province in central China to opt for a “reset” the Sino-Indian relationship which goes back for millennia.
Closer neighbors and distant friends
China and India—the second and seventh-largest economies in the world—represent almost 40% of the world population. They see each other as leaders of the “Asian century” in the “new era” of President Xi that drive the engines of global economic growth.
Meanwhile, the United States and Europe are busily preoccupying themselves with the 20th century’s outdated game of geopolitics focusing on Russia and the Middle East.
A key reason for China advancing its foreign policy—with the Belt and Road Initiative, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the South and East China Sea disputes—in an assertive fashion ...
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