EFSAS comments on Chinese aggression pushing India to the crossroads
July 3, 2020
The initial responses by the Indian government sent out two critical messages to China. It firstly demonstrated India’s resolve to ensure that China’s excesses at the border come at a sharp cost, and showed that India would not back down in the face of a Chinese offensive. The second and strategically equally important message was that India was choosing, in the larger interest of peace in its neighbourhood and workability of its relationship with China, to still deal with China within the confines of the bilateral relationship. India consciously did not, at least for the moment, wade into the choppier waters of the international arena where myriad calls for a boycott of China and several things Chinese are actively doing the rounds.
