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| Modi to meet XI Jinping but Rajnath has no plan to meet Pak counterpart | | |
While on one hand India to continue its efforts for promoting cordial ties with China, on the other had New Delhi is dead set to leave the channels of talks with Pakistan choked. This is evident by two developments. One, the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, has no plan to meet either his counterpart in Pakistan or Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif during his visit to Pakistan where he will be attending the SAARC meeting on August 4. In fact there were reports indicating that Rajnath Singh may meet either his counterpart or Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the SAARC meet. But official reports indicated that the Indian Home Minister is not willing to meet his counterpart in Pakistan or Nawaz Sharif which could be construed as reopening of the channels of bilateral talks between India and Pakistan. It means that India has toughened its stand vis-a-vis Pakistan because New Delhi is convinced that Pakistani agencies besides the establishment are behind moral, diplomatic and material support to separatists, militants operating in Kashmir who continue to keep peace in the valley derailed. Hence for the time being India is not willing to reopen the channels of talks with Pakistan unless it stops aiding terrorists and infiltration.
On the other hand Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, plans to hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit at Hangzhou in China on September 4-5. Though the details of the meeting have not yet emerged, if it does take place, it would be the first meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Jinping after their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit held in the Uzbekistan capital Tashkent, where the Prime Minister had urged China to make a "fair and objective assessment" of India's application on merit for India's membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Modi is also expected to hold a bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama, which is likely to be their last official engagement with Obama's presidency set to end on January 20, 2017. Both the leaders are likely to discuss among other issues concerning terrorism and the NSG.
Though China too has been playing politics with India, still it has not created a situation in Kashmir which is backed by Pakistan. India has a grouse against China on the ground that it did not support India's claim for a membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) even when Modi had suggested Jinping and Chinese troops were trying to make their intrusion into Ladakh and other areas of India a matter of its policy. But hitherto, India has been able to push back the Chinese intruders in Ladakh and there could be other occasions when India's case for membership of the NSG could be accepted. But Modi seems to be keen to bend fences with China who is a difficult neighbour with bigger muscle power than India. India does not want to have bad relations with both Pakistan and China. For New Delhi it is better to keep China in good humour though China's proximity with Pakistan is a metter of concern not only for India but for the US, Russia and other super powers. |
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