The American magazine Foreign Policy suggested, the United States President-elect Donald Trump should take strategy lessons from one Asian country (India) on how to effectively deal with China without the latter blowing its gasket.
Foreign Policy magazine suggests Trump and US State Department mandarins learn a thing or two from New Delhi and the Indian Foreign Service.
The magazine writes, that, "In an era when global powers are shunning both Taiwanese and Tibetan leaders (like the Dalai Lama) under the weight of Chinese pressure, one country has been openly challenging Beijing's One-China policy for more than six years India."
Foreign Policy points out how joint statements between India and China continued to omit the One-China policy.
In September 2014, the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said right before Chinese President Xi Jinping's first trip to New Delhi, that, "For India to agree on a one-China policy, China should reaffirm a one-India policy."
"When they raised the issue of Tibet and Taiwan with us, we shared their sensitivities. They should understand and appreciate our sensitivities regarding Arunachal Pradesh," the minister added.
"More important, six years after India's change of heart on One-China policy, it has suffered no discernible political or economic backlash that can be tied to the policy shift. It's notable, then, that beyond its broad refusal to endorse the One-China policy, New Delhi has given no indication that it plans to walk back its repeated reaffirmations of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet (much less Taiwan). On the other hand, Prime Minister Modi has adopted several initiatives short of that threshold to signal a more defiant posture on Tibet and the border dispute," notes Foreign Policy.
"It's notable, then, that beyond its broad refusal to endorse the One-China policy, New Delhi has given no indication that it plans to walk back its repeated reaffirmations of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet (much less Taiwan). On the other hand, Prime Minister Modi has adopted several initiatives short of that threshold to signal a more defiant posture on Tibet and the border dispute," the US magazine said.
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