China and India share a contested border and an uncomfortable neutrality in the Ukraine War — but not much else
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations and associate professor of political science at Boston University; and Manoj Kewalramani, chairperson of the Indo-Pacific Research Programme and a China studies fellow at the Takshashila Institution, a leading Indian public policy education center. They offer fascinating analysis and insight into the complex relationship between China and India in light of the Russo-Ukrainian War, as powerful and populous Asian nations caught between their commitments to Russia and their well-founded fear of alienating the West. Their predicaments, however, are about all they have in common: despite Chinese overtures, New Delhi and Beijing have too much historical baggage, too many open wounds, and visions for a post-war geopolitical map that are too divergent to allow them to make anything like common cause.
3:31 – Indian media positions, political elite takes, and popular opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian War
9:05 – Is there a partisan divide in India on the Ukraine War?
12:44 – Manoj's amazing potted history of Soviet/Russian relations with India, from 1947 to the eve of the war
29:38 – Manjari on how China figures into the Indo-Soviet/Indo-Russian relationship
35:33 – China as a factor in Indo-U.S. relations
43:17 – China's relative tone-deafness when it comes to India
55:56 – Sources of tension in the Russia-India relationship
A full transcript of this podcast is available at SupChina.com
Recommendations:
Manjari: Bridgerton on Netflix
Manoj: The 1995 Bollywood film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Kaiser: The high school comedy Metal Lords on Netflix; and Matt Sheehan, "The Chinese Way Of Innovation: What Washington Can Learn From Beijing About Investing In Tech" in Foreign Affairs
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| 0:50.3 | It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:56.9 | We cover China with neither fear nor favor. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm Kaiser Guo coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 1:04.0 | This week on Seneca, we continue to examine the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 1:09.1 | The impact on the geostrategic landscape is viewed from Beijing, |
| 1:12.9 | of course, and today, though, we're going to be looking at one of the most significant pieces |
| 1:16.6 | of that landscape, which is India. If there's another major power that is as conflicted as China |
| 1:23.2 | is over the Russian invasion, then it's probably India. Like Beijing, New Delhi has tried to have it both ways, but the similarities, as Beijing may |
| 1:31.2 | have found out the hard way, don't go much further than that. |
| 1:34.9 | If there's strategic empathy between New Delhi and Moscow and there's strategic empathy |
| 1:38.5 | between Beijing and Moscow, the simplistic view might be that by some commutative property |
| 1:43.9 | there should be the same between |
| 1:45.8 | New Delhi and Beijing, but it is not at all that simple, especially given India's deepening |
| 1:50.5 | security relationship with the United States and, of course, the recency of the brutal clashes |
| 1:55.1 | in the Galwan Valley between Chinese and Indian troops in the disputed border area of Ladakh. |
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