Fewsmith Quoted in AP Article on China-India Relations
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was quoted in an Associated Press article covering a recent clash between China and India as well as escalating tensions between the two countries.
The article describes a violent confrontation on Monday, June 15, 2020, that left 20 Indian soldiers dead in the Galwan Valley near the Line of Actual Control that separates China and India. This latest incident is one of many that has put strains on the diplomatic relationship between Beijing and New Deli. Fewsmith notes that, up until this point, Chinese-Indian relations were improving; however, this clash and changes by India to the political status of Kashmir have compromised that progress.
An excerpt:
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have met more than a dozen times for talks, most recently in October in India, to smooth relations and build up trade. But India’s unilateral decision in August to split Kashmir rankled Beijing.
‘I think what is interesting is how quickly Sino-Indian relations have deteriorated,’ said Joe Fewsmith, a China politics expert at Boston University. ‘A few years ago, Xi Jinping expressed hope that China and India could build cooperative relations. (That’s) not likely now.’
The full article can be accessed here.
Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013). Read more about him here.