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INDIA PERSPECTIVE
BEIJING PLAYS BOTH SIDES: XI HOSTS TAIWAN'S OPPOSITION WHILE WANG YI STRENGTHENS THE CHINA-NORTH KOREA AXIS
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DOMINANT ANGLE
New Delhi reads the Beijing-KMT rapprochement as a potential freeing of Chinese resources threatening the Himalayan border
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
ANALYSIS
New Delhi covers the Xi-Cheng Li-wun meeting through the prism of its own rivalry with Beijing. The Times of India reports the meeting factually but insists it was 'Chinese state media' that announced the news — an attribution distancing India from the Chinese narrative. For India, which shares a disputed 3,400-km border with China and experienced deadly clashes in Ladakh in 2020, every Beijing diplomatic advance is a power parameter to integrate. If China manages to neutralize the Taiwan question through diplomacy, it frees military and diplomatic resources that could be redirected to other theaters — including the Himalayan border.
KEY POINTS
- Times of India insists on attribution to 'Chinese state media' — distance
- India integrates every Chinese diplomatic advance into its security calculus
- A Beijing at peace on Taiwan could become more aggressive in South Asia
COGNITIVE BIASES IDENTIFIED
Reading through the Sino-Indian rivalry prism
Projection of Himalayan anxiety onto Taiwan diplomacy
SOURCES (1)
Times of India
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