00:00This is that big bilateral everyone is looking forward to.
00:05Why? Because this is happening after a gap of seven years in India.
00:09This is being seen as a reset in ties.
00:13The last bilateral that happened in India, that informal summit,
00:16was at Mahabalipuram in 2019.
00:19Before that in Wuhan 2017.
00:22Before that 2014 in Ahmedabad.
00:25So, India and China, they've repeatedly tried.
00:30And India has tried very hard to improve relations with China.
00:34Somewhere down the line, it's two steps forward, one step back, Preeti.
00:39Well, you are right there.
00:40You know, do we already start using words like reset?
00:43You know, Gaurav and I are going to be more realistic.
00:46Yes, after seven years, we've had the visit of the Chinese president to India.
00:51It comes especially after Operation Sindhu.
00:53From the Dirty Declaration.
00:55From the Dirty Declaration.
00:59From the Dirty Declaration.
01:01I will be working with China.
01:03I will work with you.
01:06Now we have to take part of the Dirty Declaration.
01:18Thank you so much for joining us.
01:48Thank you very much.
02:15Thank you very much.
06:49Well, thank you very much for having me. And I want to just start off by saying that India, Parat,
06:55is an incredibly, incredibly important player in global geopolitics today.
06:59It is a strategically ambitious, a multi-aligned and also dexterous power that delivers and is seeking to deliver for
07:07its 1.5 billion population.
07:10And I think Beijing has come to the recognition, as it really ought to have long ago, that not only
07:16is peaceful coexistence a must, but pragmatic cooperation with its southwestern neighbour is in the interest of not just its
07:23own economy, but also for the hundreds of millions, the billions of individuals who inhabit the global south today.
07:30And that is why this visit by President Xi to New Delhi, I hope, will hear and is also a
07:36signal to many in the Chinese political establishment that not only is it high time to take India seriously as
07:41a collaborator, as a partner and as a co-operator, but also fundamentally that India's strategic autonomy is not fundamentally
07:50a negotiable part of a new global south-oriented order.
07:53That the world is to become more equitable, there needs to be more recognition and acknowledgement of the interests of
07:59India, as well as, of course, all those the Indian government resents.
08:03And that's, therefore, a key takeaway to have from this very important meeting.
08:05You know, Mr. Wong, bang on there, because at one level, of course, you know, there are certain issues that
08:11we can't really look away from, and the border remains a sticking point there.
08:15And you are right that a lot will also depend on how comfortable China is with the rise of India
08:20as a global superpower,
08:22and they will have to accommodate and accept that, and a lot will depend on the, you know, what really
08:26comes out of this bilateral.
08:28To stay with us, cut across to the opening comments that came in the bilateral between India and China.
08:34Listen in to Prime Minister Modi.
08:45And you will be right back to China.
08:54So, what about the opportunity of the nation has led by the war?
08:56The war is led by the war.
08:57I hope it is in the war.
08:57I hope it will be, I hope that there is a war.
09:00I hope it will be, I hope not.
09:01I am a war.
09:04If I hope it will be, I hope it will be.
09:16right now it's the bilateral aspect of the conversation that is being taken forward
09:22and sandeep bilaterally borders very significant trade and access to chinese markets equally
09:32important because that would be evidence that it's not just words it's action on ground on which
09:37india and china intend to reset their ties absolutely and you know that is the big gorilla
09:43in the room really that huge deficit that we're looking at in our trade with china it's the
09:50bilateral trade is about 150 billion dollars the uh deficit is massive it's over 100 billion dollars
09:56and that is what india has been trying for several years now to reverse by asking for
10:01market access into china now china is not uh it suddenly you know it's hard of hearing when it
10:07comes to indian market access into china they are pushing for chinese market access and investments
10:13into india as they see india as a huge market they have an over capacity they have few markets that
10:18they can send sell their products to india is a huge consumer market but they are unwilling to open up
10:24their markets or whether it is pharma it enables services uh you know agricultural products all of
10:30that the chinese market is close to us so that is going to be one of the big uh you
10:35know us from
10:36india's side as we have uh been asking over the last couple of years gaurav
10:42cut across uh to president chinese president mr xi jinping on his opening comments we finally have
10:48the translation of that let's quickly dip into that and we're back with our panel of guests
11:21all right so what
11:36we have met for over 20 odd times
11:46and the sino-indian relationship has steadily developed over the years
11:54beijing views relationship through lenses of strategic importance
11:58and it calls the great weight
12:07china recognizes and appreciates the centrality of achievements by both sides
12:12in achieving economic development
12:22and it is in the interest of global south countries for the two powers to maintain a stable and constructive
12:29relationship
12:39and indeed we should channel our efforts towards the fostering of high quality development
12:50and that both countries ought to play a more proactive role in fostering global stability and peace
12:56and thank you so much for coming all the time
12:56please
12:56let's go to the side
12:57please
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