China issued a condemnation of retired Indian military officials over a recent visit to Taiwan, adding to a flaring pattern of disputes between the communist power and India that complicate Beijing's plans to undercut the United States and its allies.
“China firmly opposes all forms of official interaction between the Taiwan authorities and countries having diplomatic relations with China,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Thursday. “This is our consistent and clear position. We hope the country concerned will abide by the one-China principle, prudently and properly handle Taiwan-related issues, and refrain from having any form of military and security cooperation with Taiwan.
Even Xi’s meeting with Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit last week ended on a sour note, as the two governments engaged in a public dispute about which side requested the conversation. If the experience in New Delhi appears less-than-amiable to Xi, his management of China’s relationship with India would hold at least part of the explanation. A border dispute dating back to a Sino-Indian war in 1962 has broken out into multiple melees between Chinese and Indian forces in recent years, including a violent clash in 2020 that resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers, according to Indian defense officials, which sharpened India’s mistrust for its Chinese Communist neighbor.
“I think organizations like BRICS are becoming more of a friction point between India and China than a binding agent,” the Heritage Foundation’s Jeff Smith, who directs the conservative think-tank’s Asian Studies Center, told the Washington Examiner. “I think they're increasingly seeing India as a pro-U.S. spoiler that is undermining progress.”
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