Source:-Japan misleading India against China: Chinese state media
State-run Chinese daily, Global Times, has slammed Japan for misleading India against China, saying that the timing of Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s visit to India, right on the heels of the Doklam standoff, was suspicious.
Abe had visited India last week to inaugurate the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, a 508-km railway line that will run on the Japanese Shinkansen technology.
The article in the Global Times also downplayed the role of the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor that was spoken about by Modi and Abe, saying that its basic concept and the spirit was similar to China’s Belt and Road initiative.
The piece written by Long Xingchun, director of the Center for Indian Studies at China West Normal University, said that Abe was in conjunction with the USA and they were misleading India. Xingchun said that this was exemplified by the fact that Japan and the US had representatives attending the Belt and Road Forum in May, amidst India’s boycott of the event.
It said Japan was using India as a tool to confront China, as Japan doesn’t really want to confront it directly.
It took a dig at India too, saying that despite India building expressways and bullet trains, the roads in large parts of India were akin to “dirt tracks”.
The article also questioned the entire logic behind the talks between the two countries.
“The better India-Japan ties have mutual self-serving interests. Japan, as the second-largest economy for long, is competitive in export of commodities, technology and global investments. While India is a key emerging market seeking foreign direct investment and technological know-how. Huge potential exists in the cooperation between the two countries,” he said before stating that in such circumstances, it was perplexing to see that China was the dominant agenda in the talks between the two sides.
The article called upon both India and Japan to boost regional co-operation, saying the three major Asian powers could foster pragmatic cooperation which could be a win-win situation for regional progress and development as well.
source:-ET
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