India-China Relations: It’s the economy, and no one’s stupid
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Joe Thomas Karackattu
Archive data: Person was Associate Fellow at IDSA from August 2010 to August 2012 Joined IDSA August 2010 Expertise PRC’s foreign and economic policy; Democratization and economic development in Republic… Continue reading India-China Relations: It’s the economy, and no one’s stupid read more
The recent visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao clearly had a productive focus – Sino-Indian economic ties have been re-enforced, and there has been an effort to re-balance the trading relationship. This Brief uses irony to communicate five propositions (i.e. the intended meaning of these five statements is the opposite of what is stated), that can be found in several discourses on Sino-Indian ties. It evaluates these propositions in the light of the tangible and intangible gains from Premier Wen Jiabao’s second official visit to India.
