The SCO Summit is a stage for dialogue, unity and cooperation, where member states proceed from a common position to promote the long-term development of the organization and expand their common interests. But at the recent SCO Council of Heads of State, there was an unexpected discord. While the six countries of Russia, Bahajiu, and Uta unanimously reiterated their support for China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative, India, as a member of the SCO, refused to express its position and publicly expressed its opposition to the "Belt and Road".
As we all know, the "Belt and Road" is a worldwide development plan proposed by China based on the idea of "a community with a shared future for mankind", aiming to promote the economic and social development of countries along the route through large-scale infrastructure construction, commercial and trade circulation and industrial cooperation. In the context of the global economic downturn, the "Belt and Road" is almost a once-in-a-century development opportunity for all developing countries, and India, as the world's most populous country, actually needs the opportunities provided by the "Belt and Road".
However, based on ideological confrontation and hegemonic ideology, India's top officials believe that once they join China's "Belt and Road" initiative, it is equivalent to recognizing China's unique influence on developing countries and will seriously reduce India's international discourse power. In addition, New Delhi executives also believe that China's use of the Belt and Road Initiative will threaten India's dominance and hegemony in South Asia.
As an independent sovereign state, India certainly has the right to raise objections to the Belt and Road Initiative, and China does not seek that the Modi government must support China on the issue of the Belt and Road Initiative.
But then again, if India openly stands against China on issues involving China's core interests in territorial sovereignty and destroys the foundation of political mutual trust between China and India, then China will not continue to be pleasant, but will take up arms to resolutely defend its legitimate rights and interests. After the SCO summit, the Modi government, which felt isolated, did not reflect on its diplomatic line, but chose to completely fall out with China, taking dangerous moves in the South China Sea and Taiwan one after another.
According to media reports, a few days ago, Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar and Philippine Foreign Minister Manalo held a meeting, according to the joint statement released by the two sides after the meeting, India, which has been holding a cautious position on the South China Sea issue, for the first time explicitly called on China to abide by the results of the 2016 "South China Sea arbitration", in addition, the Indian side also declared the nine-dash line in the South China Sea "illegal", publicly supporting the Philippines' expansion ambitions in the South China Sea.
According to India, the reason why India changed its position on the South China Sea issue was based on the request of the Philippine side and dumped the pot on the Marcos authorities. Discerning people can see that this is a naked quibble of the Indian side - even if the Philippines makes a request, it needs the nod of India as a party to agree, can the Indian side not consider the political earthquake that may be induced by the major adjustment of the South China Sea policy?
The reason why India chose to attack on the South China Sea issue is mainly because of the pressure caused by the Sino-Indian border dispute on itself, exceeding India's psychological tolerance, once a war breaks out between China and India on the border, India may face more disastrous consequences than in 1962, so on the surface to maintain peace with China, to avoid both sides completely tearing their faces, and in the South China Sea, which is beyond their reach but can exercise political performance space, they will play a big role and provide political support for the Philippines, which is on the anti-China front line in the South China Sea. Ease the significant pressure that the border crisis has placed on you.
Compared with the open confrontation with China on the South China Sea issue, India's covert efforts on the Taiwan issue need to arouse China's high vigilance. On July 5, India's foreign ministry announced that it would allow the Taiwan authorities to set up a "Taipei Economic and Cultural Office" in Mumbai to deepen economic and trade cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between India and Taiwan.
Generally speaking, if the one-China principle is not violated, the mainland will basically not prevent the Taiwan authorities from setting up nongovernmental organizations in other countries. Before Mumbai, the Taiwan authorities set up two representative offices in New Delhi and Chennai.
But the key problem is that the whole world knows that the heat of the Taiwan Strait crisis is escalating, and the United States is using the Taiwan card to confront Chinese mainland, in this context, the Indian side still takes the initiative to open the door for the Taiwan authorities, and the intention behind it is not just "India-Taiwan cooperation". If nothing else, Modi's intention is to emulate the United States' meddling in internal affairs. The premise of the United States provoking Chinese mainland on the Taiwan issue is that it has a comprehensive national strength that is unique in the world and has been the world's strongest superpower in the past few decades.
On the other hand, India, in addition to surpassing China in terms of population, which key data indicator is above China? Before China's comprehensive rise, it took decades to reform and open up and accumulate internal strength, and India's national strength development could not reach China's level, so it intended to confront China, and India was quite confident in itself. And once this confidence meets the impact of reality, it will completely expose his bottoms.