Chinese President Xi Jinping's decision to skip the G20 summit is being seen in host India as a snub to New Delhi and a new setback to the already frozen relations between the nuclear-armed Asian giants.
Neither country has commented on Xi deciding to stay away, but analysts said the decision added to existing irritants, including a military stand-off on their Himalayan border and India insisting that the rest of the relationship cannot move forward without a resolution on the frontier.
"It may be hard for them to swallow that for four decades they were the fastest growing economy and now it is India,” he said. India wants disengagement at two more disputed points and a return to positions held before the summer of 2020. Meanwhile, both militaries have amassed tens of thousands of soldiers, arms and equipment in the mountains.Modi and Xi spoke on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg last month but versions of the conversation put out by the two countries on tackling the border issue differed, another sign of how they do not see eye to eye.to the border conflict in the western Himalayas.
Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at China's Renmin University, said the major issues between China and India include the military confrontation in the Himalayas and India's participation in the four-nation Quad grouping."It displays stronger opposition to China’s claims over South China Sea, and more broadly builds up its navy fleets to compete with China...
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