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NEW DELHI: With the hoopla of the US elections over, the attention of the world is now fixed on a very different kind of leadership change in China a once-in-a-decade affair that will have a global effect almost as far-reaching as the American presidential poll.
As Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang prepare to take the reins of the world's second largest economy from Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, India is preparing to enthusiastically engage the new leadership, even though the new Chinese government will only take over in March, 2013. By next week, the top seven (or nine) men who lead the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be changed, and that will indicate who will take over in the government.
Shivshankar Menon, national security adviser, will travel to Beijing in a few weeks for talks on "strategic issues" with his counterpart Dai Bingguo an exercise that promises to be much bigger than the border talks. Menon will meet a clutch of new leaders with Dai, who, too, will retire by next March. The talks, said sources, are expected to ensure continuity in the engagement between India and China, and has been proposed by the Chinese side.
Next week, PM Manmohan Singh will meet Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh possibly for the last time. Wen will make way for Li Keqiang as the next premier, who will also take over in March. In the last week of November, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, will meet chief of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Zhang Ping, for the next strategic and economic dialogue. India is trying to get China interested in investing in infrastructure creation in India, particularly railways.
While the Indian government too is engaged in the new "Kremlinology" of trying to gauge who will make the cut in the all powerful politburo standing committee in China, there is a general feeling that despite outstanding issues and a subterranean rivalry running through the relationship, the ties with Beijing are reasonably stable.
An increasingly aggressive and nationalist China has been picking fights with almost all its neighbours in the past year as the Chinese party leadership began their internal jockeying for the transition. From Japan to Vietnam and the Philippines and even the US, China has been very prickly and feeling threatened. Ironically, China's relations with India have been uneventful, which is interesting since it's the only neighbour with which Beijing has a festering border dispute and other attendant problems.
The real question that India would be asking is: what kind of a leader would Xi Jinping be? There was an attempt to get Xi over to India last year, but that never quite worked out. Indian leaders will only engage Xi after his anointment.
Xi belongs to a very different class of leaders in the Chinese hierarchy than Hu, whom he will replace as the party general secretary next week and as the president in March. As a so-called "princeling" Xi, whose father fought with Mao Zedong, is believed to be close to former Chinese president, Jiang Zemin. But from all accounts, the politburo standing committee, the seven (or nine) leaders, who will collectively rule China for the next decade, is peppered with many faces who owe allegiance to the Hu faction as well. India, like other nations, will be watching closely to see what the composition of the standing committee and the refashioned Central Military commission will be. For instance, in the recent reshuffle in the Central Military Commission (CMC), the edging out of some "political commissars", or pol-coms by people from the armed forces is believed to be a good sign.
Ultimately, India's wants to work out a border agreement with China, open Chinese markets for Indian products and keep Beijing's influence in India's neighbourhood in check. On a larger canvas, a growing India will come up against an even bigger China. That's why the relationship needs to be managed more cleverly.
Why India needs to maintain ties with China cleverly - The Times of India
As Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang prepare to take the reins of the world's second largest economy from Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, India is preparing to enthusiastically engage the new leadership, even though the new Chinese government will only take over in March, 2013. By next week, the top seven (or nine) men who lead the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be changed, and that will indicate who will take over in the government.
Shivshankar Menon, national security adviser, will travel to Beijing in a few weeks for talks on "strategic issues" with his counterpart Dai Bingguo an exercise that promises to be much bigger than the border talks. Menon will meet a clutch of new leaders with Dai, who, too, will retire by next March. The talks, said sources, are expected to ensure continuity in the engagement between India and China, and has been proposed by the Chinese side.
Next week, PM Manmohan Singh will meet Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh possibly for the last time. Wen will make way for Li Keqiang as the next premier, who will also take over in March. In the last week of November, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, will meet chief of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Zhang Ping, for the next strategic and economic dialogue. India is trying to get China interested in investing in infrastructure creation in India, particularly railways.
While the Indian government too is engaged in the new "Kremlinology" of trying to gauge who will make the cut in the all powerful politburo standing committee in China, there is a general feeling that despite outstanding issues and a subterranean rivalry running through the relationship, the ties with Beijing are reasonably stable.
An increasingly aggressive and nationalist China has been picking fights with almost all its neighbours in the past year as the Chinese party leadership began their internal jockeying for the transition. From Japan to Vietnam and the Philippines and even the US, China has been very prickly and feeling threatened. Ironically, China's relations with India have been uneventful, which is interesting since it's the only neighbour with which Beijing has a festering border dispute and other attendant problems.
The real question that India would be asking is: what kind of a leader would Xi Jinping be? There was an attempt to get Xi over to India last year, but that never quite worked out. Indian leaders will only engage Xi after his anointment.
Xi belongs to a very different class of leaders in the Chinese hierarchy than Hu, whom he will replace as the party general secretary next week and as the president in March. As a so-called "princeling" Xi, whose father fought with Mao Zedong, is believed to be close to former Chinese president, Jiang Zemin. But from all accounts, the politburo standing committee, the seven (or nine) leaders, who will collectively rule China for the next decade, is peppered with many faces who owe allegiance to the Hu faction as well. India, like other nations, will be watching closely to see what the composition of the standing committee and the refashioned Central Military commission will be. For instance, in the recent reshuffle in the Central Military Commission (CMC), the edging out of some "political commissars", or pol-coms by people from the armed forces is believed to be a good sign.
Ultimately, India's wants to work out a border agreement with China, open Chinese markets for Indian products and keep Beijing's influence in India's neighbourhood in check. On a larger canvas, a growing India will come up against an even bigger China. That's why the relationship needs to be managed more cleverly.
Why India needs to maintain ties with China cleverly - The Times of India
