00:00Prime Minister Modi visited China and met Xi Jinping there, a lot of criticism is coming
00:05that one should never trust China. Looking at the history we have had, New Delhi and Beijing,
00:09the history that we share, China is not someone you can trust. They are always going to backstab
00:14you. They are always going to kill you in a sense at the border. They would do anything
00:18to encroach your land. How should India deal with it in the entire fiasco with Trump and United
00:24States? It seems so that China in New Delhi is moving towards China. Is it a good thing or bad
00:29thing? So the criticism seems to be that India is trusting China. Is India trusting China? Is
00:34the question I would like to ask. You can't trust anybody in geopolitics, even your so-called best
00:40friends. Geopolitics is all about national interest first. So my national interest comes first and
00:47wherever my national interest aligns with another country's certain national interests, in those
00:54matters, in those sectors we can cooperate. But if you look at the track record of China, it seeks,
01:01it's an adversary of India. We know that very well. We have gone to war with them in 1962. We had a war in
01:051967. We had clashes in 1987. The last 10 years we had more clashes with the Sundarong Chu 2020 also Galwan.
01:12So we know what China represents for us and the Chinese military has published in the past that they would
01:18like to see India be fragmented, balkanized. So we know exactly what China seeks to do. First of all,
01:24we have to understand the nature of the nation. What is China and what does it seek? What are its ambitions?
01:32China's ambition is to replace and displace the United States as the global superpower by about 2050.
01:39And it can't do that as long as there is another major power in Asia. So it would like to undermine India.
01:46China. I don't think Mr. Modi is at all trusting China. You have to deal with your adversaries also.
01:54I mean look at in the US and China. They are always communicating. They have summit meetings from
02:00time to time. Despite being at loggerheads. Despite being at loggerheads. Look at Pakistan and China.
02:05Even now that now that Pakistan is completely in the US camp, the Chinese and Pakistanis are still
02:10talking. Shabazz Sharif still goes to the Sanghai cooperation summit. You have to be practical and
02:15pragmatic in geopolitics. China is a long-term adversary. As long as the Tibet region is under
02:22Chinese control, India and China will never have long-lasting peace. Tibet was historically never
02:27part of China. Right now it is under Chinese occupation which is why for the first time in 2000
02:32years we have a common border between India and Chinese occupied territory. And that is the issue.
02:36The Chinese don't want to resolve the undemarcated border issue, the India-Tibet border. And that is the
02:41root cause of all the problems. Right? So right now why are India and China seeming to align to some
02:47extent? Why is that? Because both are facing tremendous pressure from a much more powerful
02:51nation which is the US. The US has gone all out against China. Tremendous tariffs have been imposed
02:56on China. The US used to export semiconductors and chips and whatnot to China. They have imposed
03:01massive restrictions on that. Right? And so much more. So the US is going all out against China. The US is
03:08going all out against Russia. And now India also. It makes sense for the three nations at the receiving
03:13end to kind of find some common ground. India and Russia are tremendous common ground. India and Russia
03:18have no rivalry, no issues where we have disagreements, major issues and so on. India and China almost
03:24everything is a disagreement. But maybe we can cooperate in some ways. The Chinese recently imposed
03:28sanctions that people don't know of, rare earth sanctions on India. So they are playing a double
03:34game. On the one hand we meet and we talk. On the other hand they are stabbing us like that. It's not
03:38like we are not aware of it. Mr. Modi is not a new player in the game of geopolitics. He understands
03:43exactly what's happening. But we have to talk to our adversaries also. We have to try and find a way
03:49to maybe establish some common ground in some places and maybe take the relationship forward.
03:54Maybe put the rivalry on hold for about a decade or so etc. So it is not that we are blindly trusting
04:01China. We are cautiously seeking the way forward and that is the right thing to do.
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