China and India, with a combined population of more than 2.8 billion accounting for more than 35 percent of global population and 60 percent of Asia's population according to World Bank's statistics, are the world's two largest developing countries. What could be accomplished if the two countries worked together?
For the past couple of years, China-India relationship has been strained by the border clashes, economic conflict and geopolitical confrontations. Answering the question above became a distant dream as both countries struggled to salvage their ties with each other.
On March 25, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi. Both sides agreed in the meeting that multilateralism should be held, UN Charter and international law should be abided by and that disputes should be settled peacefully through dialogue while expressing their grave concerns over the impact of unilateral sanctions on global economy and supply chain security.
It is a clear rebuttal to the sanctions imposed by the United States against Russia over the Ukraine conflict. For India, a country that has grown exponentially closer to the United States during the past several years, it is a stunning and significant geopolitical choice of risk being seen by the West as "aligning with China and Russia" rather than standing with the Anglo-centric axis of the world.
China and India actually have a history of non-alignment with the West. India was one of the initiators of the Non-Aligned Movement that saw a group of developing countries that aligned with neither of the superpower-led blocs during the Cold War. And later, China became an observer country. Even as India's relationship with the West warmed over the years, it has maintained close ties with Russia through trade and military exchanges. And during the last couple of years, the border conflicts didn't stop China-India trade volume to surpass the $100-billion mark.
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