My dear, I can't tell you how deeply I desire India and China to have friendly relations.
There's just so much we can contribute to each other.
India can learn soooooooo much from China. The number of people China has pulled out of poverty in such a short period of time has no parallel in human histroy.
It's simply too mind boggling a feat to even think of.
Let me tell you something that not many Chinese members here believe.
The common Indian is very admiring of China and a little scared of China. Admiring because of what China has achieved, scared because of our checkered past.
But hopefully things are taking a turn for the better with trade increasing.
What we need right now is:
1. More people to people contacts.
2. More businesses venturing into each others' country.
3. More trade. This will reduce the hostility and increase our reliance on each other, thereby reducing the itch to go to war/confrontation.
4. Indian media, I accept, needs to exercise restraint while reporting about China but our Chinese friends must also understand that India being a democracy, we can't really tell our media what to do and what not to do.
5. We need to be much more proactive diplomatically in order to resolve our disputes and sort out the irritants.
I really wish to see a friendly relationship between India and China but sadly, right now, things look dismal.
however, good wishes