A senior Chinese official visited Tibet on Friday to discuss national security issues and provide a solid picture of the unresolved along the disputed Indo-Tibetan border.
The scale of China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi over the weekend was described as a rare and symbolic gesture in comments to the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Five years had passed since Wang’s last stopover in the mountainous country.
A political scientist at Nanjing University, Gu Su, said: “When visiting the border region, Wang sent a vital message to the national and foreign public that Beijing needs to reassert its sovereignty over the disputed border areas.”
Wang’s statements saturday came with no direct mention of India, however, video of a three-month army clash on the Tibet-India border, where diplomatic talks failed.resulted in no solution.
In May, Chinese and Indian troops clashed along the Galwan River Valley.No shots have yet been fired, the use of batons and knives and the falls from the steep terrain caused the deaths of 20 Indian infantrymen and an estimated 35 to 43 Chinese infantrymen.The incident has become a bigger and more bitter dispute over trade, technology, investment and geopolitics.
Instead of India, Wang spoke about the security and stability of Tibet and how it is vitally important for China’s overall development.He suggested that diplomats and local officials combine paintings to protect national security from “demanding situations unprecedented in the post-coronavirus world.”
Another complication is that Tibetans, with their government in exile in India under the leadership of The Dalia Lama, their country is an independent country while the Chinese government says it is part of China.Wang praised Tibet’s achievements under Xi Jinping’s presidency in the security of the southern border.
He also said that Tibet had played a key role in the progression of economic and industrial relations with neighbouring countries.He attributed his “paper” to Mr. Xi, the Strip and Route Initiative.
Wang’s to Tibet was followed on Saturday, India’s Independence Day, with a speech through Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who promised to build an army of 1.4 million soldiers to protect the country’s sovereignty.
The timing of Wang’s scale and Modi’s speech the opinion of another expert Wang Dehua, an Expert in India at the Shanghai Municipal Center for International Studies, said he showed that China did not need to look weak in the face of what it sees.like India’s bellicose position.
“Wang’s vacation obviously aimed to rally and formulate policies on how to deal well with India, especially when New Delhi still doubts between China and the United States,” Dehua told SCMP.”While China obviously doesn’t need to move to war with India, however, we’ll have to be fully prepared for all sorts of scenarios and that’s what Wang probably did in Tibet.
Protesters shout a pro-Tibet march as Chinese President Xi Jinping attends occasionally in Seattle, Washington, September 22, 2015 Photo: Reuters/David Ryder