China, led by President Sheena, adopts aggressive foreign policy against India: US Commission report

Washington, Ta. 3 July 2020, Friday

A commission appointed by the US Congress said in a report that China, led by President Xi Jinping, has pursued an aggressive foreign policy towards India and halted efforts to clarify the Line of Actual Control (LoC) in order to maintain peace. Tensions between Indian and Chinese forces have been high in several parts of eastern Ladakh for the past seven weeks, with tensions escalating after 20 Indians were killed in a violent clash in the Galvan Valley on June 15.

According to a report by the US-China Economic and Security Review, Beijing, led by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP), has adopted an aggressive foreign policy towards New Delhi. Since 2013, China has had five major conflicts with India along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

According to the report, Beijing and New Delhi made several agreements to maintain stability on their border and took steps to build mutual trust but China stopped trying to clarify the LAC so that maintaining peace was hampered.

"The Chinese government is apprehensive about India's strengthening ties with the United States and its allies," Will Green, a policy analyst for the commission's security and foreign affairs team, wrote in the report. Clashes have escalated since Shi came to power in 2012. However, on several occasions, he met Prime Minister Modi and agreed on a number of arrangements to restore mutual trust to reduce tensions between Beijing and New Delhi.

The last major border clash before 2013 was reported in 1987. "The 2020 clash is the result of Beijing's aggressive foreign policy," it said. The clash comes at a time when Beijing is aggressively asserting its sovereignty over the Indo-Pacific region, such as Taiwan and the South and East China Seas.