Just after the SCO summit, the Chinese side issued two invitations, and Jaishankar approached Wang Yi and made two commitments to China. What is special about the invitation extended by the Chinese side? What sensitive topics did Wang Yi and Jaishankar discuss in their meeting? What kind of commitment has India made to China?
The two-day SCO summit came to a successful conclusion, and the Chinese side further promoted multilateral cooperation during the summit and sent two special invitations.
First of all, at the joint press conference held at the highest level between China and Kazakhstan, the Chinese side made it clear that it will support Kazakhstan's accession to the BRICS cooperation mechanism.
It should be pointed out that not long ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov just announced that after the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting studied and discussed, the BRICS mechanism will suspend the expansion of the BRICS mechanism. China's invitation to Kazakhstan to join the BRICS is not only an exception, but also a reflection of the rapid progress made in bilateral relations.
Second, the day after the summit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Belarusian Foreign Minister Rezhenkov would pay an official visit to China from July 6 to 9 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Coincidentally, Belarus has just become a new member of the SCO during the SCO summit, and the first thing it does now is to visit China, which is enough to show China's influence in the SCO and the importance that Belarus attaches to China.
On the one hand, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar was absent from the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Russia and did not directly participate in the discussion of the decision to suspend the expansion of the BRICS; On the other hand, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's absence from the SCO summit again has also caused a lot of controversy.
So we saw that on July 4, Jaishankar also took the initiative to find China and held talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
He pointed out that China and India, as "representatives of two ancient civilizations, large developing countries and emerging economies", are at a critical juncture of national rejuvenation, and that upholding good-neighborliness and friendship and achieving common development is in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples and the correct historical logic.
And we note that Jaishankar has also changed his previous hardline attitude towards China and made two commitments to China.
First of all, on the issue of the China-India border, Jaishankar agreed with China's judgment that China-India relations are in the interests of both sides and will benefit the region and the world, and he also hopes that the differences can be resolved as soon as possible and a new page in India-China relations can be opened.
Secondly, on the issue of the development of the SCO, Jaishankar also made it clear that he would support China in taking over the next SCO chairmanship, and promised that India would adhere to an independent foreign policy and be willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with China in multilateral mechanisms.
Of course, although Jaishankar's statement was relatively positive, Jaishankar did not give a positive answer to China's core concerns.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed that China and India should actively resume normal exchanges on the one hand, and properly handle and manage the situation in the border areas on the other, and that the two things should be handled in parallel, but in Jaishankar's statement, he only emphasized the resolution of differences, which is equivalent to putting the China-India border issue above China-India relations.
In addition, Foreign Minister Wang Yi also mentioned that China and India are both countries in the "Global South" and should work together to oppose unilateral bullying and resist bloc confrontation. In his response, Jaishankar only emphasized the need to safeguard the common interests of developing countries.
As for India's idea of "left and right", in fact, through a series of recent performances, including the member states of the BRICS, the SCO and other organizations, have clearly seen that India's so-called independent foreign policy is actually between the East and the West, and it is more about how to expand India's own interests, while the collective interests of the vast number of "southern countries" here in India will have to stand a little back.