“If India doesn’t take practical actions to ease tension with China and Pakistan, the consequences will be India’s security being threatened”
BEIJING – A senior Chinese expert, Qian Feng, director of the research department at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University, has advised India to take practical actions to ease tension with China and Pakistan if it wants to integrate itself in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) mechanism.
In a comment to China’s leading newspaper Global Times on September 17, 2021, Mr. Qian Feng also added that India has clearly seen the significance of the SCO, which is expected to include Iran as a member, making it the most important platform on the Afghan issue with all of Afghanistan’s major neighbors as members.
Global Times quoted experts as suggesting that India could cooperate with other SCO members on humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and counter-terrorism cooperation to prevent the spillover of terrorism.
But If India doesn’t take practical actions to ease tension with China and Pakistan, it cannot integrate itself in the SCO mechanism, and the consequences will be India’s security being threatened, Qian said.
Analysts also called on India to seriously reflect on itself and not be a troublemaker for multilateral cooperation.
According to Global Times report on the sidelines of the SCO summit, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday, during which Wang said China hopes India will work with China to stabilize the border situation and the two sides should jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in border areas and prevent the recurrence of border-related incidents.
But If India doesn’t take practical actions to ease tension with China and Pakistan, it cannot integrate itself in the SCO mechanism, and the consequences will be India’s security being threatened, Qian said.
Analysts also called on India to seriously reflect on itself and not be a troublemaker for multilateral cooperation.
Global Times added that Chinese analysts also reminded SCO members to be vigilant of India, which may undercut the efficiency of the SCO by bringing its disputes with some members into regional cooperation, and urged India not to be “poison of the multilateral mechanism.”