China and India try to repair relations

The World

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4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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China and India are beginning to view each other as possible allies — instead of historic adversaries — one of the side-effects of new US trade policies. Also, Ecuador’s first Indigenous university helps its students promote their ancestral knowledge and languages. And, tensions simmer as rival Greek Orthodox brotherhoods lay claim to a 10th-century monastery. Plus, Ukrainian jazz pianist Fima Chupakhin serenades his home country from afar.

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0:00.0	Over many years, the U.S. and India have grown closer, but President Trump's tariffs against
0:09.6	Indian exports are changing that. If the administration continues in this vein, it is going to lead
0:17.2	to a significant rift in Indo-U.S. relations. I'm Marco Werman. Is that rift, starting with India
0:24.2	getting closer to China? Also, a tense standoff between rival members of the Greek Orthodox Church.
0:29.9	These people have taken a military approach to securing their existence there, and it's really
0:37.0	brightening. We'll also hear from the only
0:39.5	black woman-owned brewery in South Africa. For centuries, women have been the ones that are
0:44.4	bringing beer. It might have been lost somewhere in translation, but we are now reclaiming our
0:49.8	place as brewers. All that and more coming up today, here on the world.
0:58.7	This is the world.
0:59.7	I'm Marco Wurman.
1:01.9	Carolyn Beeler is on assignment in Greenland.
1:03.7	It's good to have you here with us today.
1:08.1	We begin the show with what seemed to be renewed relations between China and India. The two neighbors should be partners, not adversaries or threats. That was a message today from Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, during a two-day visit to Delhi, where he's meeting with India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. China and India have had a tense relationship, seen especially in a deadly border dispute that's persisted for years. Now there is a change in tone. That's thanks
1:29.2	in part to the way U.S. trade policy is hitting both Beijing and Delhi. Shumit Ganguly is a senior
1:35.2	fellow at the Hoover Institution and helped us understand the warmer tenor of Chinese-Indian relations.
1:41.0	China is India's second largest trading partner after the United States. But if the U.S.
1:47.4	continues to impose these tariffs, under these conditions, China will very quickly assume the first
1:56.0	spot as a trading partner. But any trade deals that India reaches with China are not of long-term
2:06.3	consequence. There will be some relaxation of tensions. India will probably resume flights to Beijing
2:15.9	and allow Chinese commercial aircraft to fly into New Delhi.
2:23.1	But these are merely tactical moves because India has been trying to reduce its dependence on
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