As the current G20 presidency, India's move has attracted worldwide attention. According to media reports, India recently announced that the G20 Tourism Working Group meeting will be held in Indian-controlled Kashmir. As soon as this news came out, it detonated global public opinion. Modi warned that 19 of the G20 countries participated but no China. However, the Indian side did not expect many countries to support China.
India holds summit in Indian-administered Kashmir
India has previously hosted the G20 Finance Ministers' Summit and the G20 Foreign Ministers' Summit, both of which were held in the Indian capital New Delhi. This time, India announced that it would hold a G20 tourism working meeting in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
It is clear that India's move is digging a hole for China, which is now divided into Indian-controlled Kashmir, Chinese-controlled Kashmir and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, of which Indian-controlled Kashmir is the largest.
There is a common principle around the world not to hold any international multilateral summits in disputed regions. To take a very simple example, if Russia holds a summit in Crimea, then the country that arrives in Crimea to participate in this summit is sending a signal to the outside world that Crimea belongs to Russia. However, Crimea has always been disputed, and likewise, regions including Kosovo and Kashmir are facing disputes.
China's refusal to participate in Modi's warning
India has previously held multilateral summits in many cities such as the capital New Delhi, which means that other cities clearly have the conditions to hold multilateral summits, but India has put the tourism work conference in Kashmir this time to hold the conference is drunk.
China has made it clear that it will never attend such a meeting. Unexpectedly, this time India seems to be iron-hearted to set a trap for China. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi even publicly said that if China does not sit down with India to talk, there will be no peace on the Sino-Indian border... Modi's warning came after attending the recent G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.
Indian officials have publicly stated that even if China does not participate, representatives of 19 countries and 64 countries will attend the G20 tourism task force meeting. India was too optimistic about the situation, and after China's statement, eight countries, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, made it clear that they would refuse to attend the summit.
Now under India's manipulation, the current G20 summit has become a "G8 summit". This move by India will not give itself face in the world, it will only make people feel that there is no pattern. China has always advocated resolving the Sino-Indian border issue through dialogue and consultation, and India's move will only complicate the Sino-Indian border issue.
Part of the information reference source: Global Times