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Border disputes between India and China are “ancient”, where Beijing will continue to improve its territorial position, but in the long run, Chinese President Xi Jinping will make strategic decisions to make a border resolution with the new one with the new Delhi, according to the former Perdana Australian Minister Kevin Rudd.
In an interview with The Print, Rudd, who is now the President of the Asia Society, a global non -profit organization, said Xi will never be satisfied with “diplomatic compromise”, be it in the case of India, Taiwan or the South China Sea.
This is an ancient border dispute. This preceded the 1962 War. Zhou Enlai (First Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China) and (former PM India) Pandit (Jawaharlal) Nehru began to see what compromise was like. The border war in 1962 destroyed it. And that is now 60 years ago, “said Rudd, who was in India to launch his new book, The Haveable War: The dangers of disaster conflict between China and Xi Jinping’s China.
He said: “Evidence lately, and because (politicians) with Xiaoping and of course under Xi Jinping, is from time to time to change the reality on the field with the border, to increase the territorial position of China as a whole along the border and,, Of course, this is reinforced by infrastructure construction on the China side. “
“Therefore, I do not see evidence of Chinese generic strategic behavior, both on the Sino-India border, in the South China Sea, above Taiwan or in the East China Sea that China will land on diplomatic compromise,” Rudd added.
However, he did not rule out the possibility that Xi took a strategic call after five or 10 years to end the border dispute with India.
I do not rule out the possibility that in the long run, after five or 10 years, maybe if Xi Jinping reaches a strategic decision that it is better for him to finally complete the border for various other strategic reasons … So, we should not rule out the possibility. But that is the possibility, not the possibility, “he said.
Rudd, who was on his way for a week to India, also said that India finally realized that its main strategic challenges remained China, and that New Delhi had to take effective steps to face it going forward.
India seems to have reached the conclusion that its main strategic challenges lies in China, whether it is on the Sino-Indian border, whether it is above Kashmir, whether it is more than Pakistan and the alliance of all Chinese weather with Islamabad or above the Indian Ocean,” Rudd said , adding that he believes this is why India’s strategy has now become “clearer”.
“Indian strategic partners have become clearer and this will be revealed from time to time but without breaking up immediately with Russia,” he added, in the context of the establishment of India in the Russian-Ukraine War and its impact on Indo-Pacific.
He said this was why India would conduct several maritime security initiatives such as Quad, and participated in Malabar training with the Australian Navy, Japan and the US – Indian quad partners.
When you see the pattern of purchasing of the Indian Navy and Military in the future, there will be an increase in the tendency to look at the US in terms of long -term supply,” he said.
Quad grouping, said Rudd, has been designed as a “flexible vehicle” that sees the future, and will be made effectively as and when needed.
This can develop vertically or horizontally in the future and become more military from time to time according to the request of the situation,” said Rudd.
