From the Times of India:
India is suspicious of China’s economic growth, a new newspaper close to the Communist Party of China has said in an editorial. The paper, Global Times, made the comment while discussing New Delhi’s reported decision to disallow China from attending this year’s Indian Ocean Naval Symposium.
India’s ministry of foreign affairs is simply afraid that China might “intervene” in its sphere of influence in the Indian Ocean, it said. New Delhi’s decision was also prompted by “India’s suspicion of China’s rise”, it said.
“Many people in India, the earliest industrialized country in Asia, could not accept China’s rapid rise in the past decades. Their bruised egos made them reluctant to get more intimately acquainted with China,” the newspaper said. “A lack of people-to-people exchanges between China and India has also contributed to the estrangement and mutual distrust,” it said.
See also past CDT posts on Sino-Indian relations.
