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VOL.8 NO .3 | MAY - JUNE 2017 国内零售价：10 元 / India 100 www.chinaindiadialogue.com CONTENTS CHINA-INDIA DIALOGUE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY: 主管： China International 中国外文出版发行事业局 CHINDIA NEWS / p.02 Publishing Group （中国国际出版集团） PUBLISHER: 主办、出版： China Pictorial 人民画报社 ADDRESS: 地址： OPENING Belt and Road: Sharing Opportunities 33 Chegongzhuang Xilu, Haidian, 北京市海淀区 ESSAY 04 Beijing 100048, China 车公庄西路33号 Belt and Road: India’s Reluctance Could EMAIL: Be to Its Detriment / p.11 [email protected] PRESIDENT: Yu Tao 社长：于涛 EDITORIAL BOARD: 编委会： COMMENT Yu Tao, Li Xia, 于 涛 、李 霞 、 He Peng, Wang Lei , 贺 鹏 、王 磊 、 It’s High Time for China and India to Rebuild Climate Yu Jia, Yan Ying 于 佳 、闫 颖 Cooperation / p.14 EXECUTIVE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Li Xia 执行总编：李霞 EDITORIAL DIRECTORS: 编辑部主任： Wen Zhihong, Qiao Zhenqi 温 志 宏 、乔 振 祺 Can the Dragon and the Elephant Dance Together? / p.18 ENGLISH EDITOR: 英文定稿： Xu Mingqiang 徐明强 EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS: 语言顾问： SPECIAL REPORT Scott Huntsman, Nicholas Lanigan 苏 格 、丁 文 EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS: 编辑、翻译： Doklam Standoff: India’s Obsession with Pursuing “Absolute Gong Haiying, Hu Zhoumeng, 龚海莹、胡周萌、 Liu Haile, Li Zhuoxi, 刘 海 乐 、李 卓 希 、 Security” / p.22 Li Yiqi, Mithila Phadke, 李 艺 琦 、弥 萨 罗 、 Wang Dongmei, Wang Shuya, 王 冬 梅 、王 舒 雅 、 Xu Shuyuan, Yin Xing, 许 舒 园 、殷 星 、 Zhang Xue, Zhao Yue, Zhou Xin 张 雪 、赵 月 、周 昕 EDITOR-VISUALS & PHOTOGRapHS: 视觉编辑： Li Zhuoxi 李卓希 STRATEGY DESIGNED BY: Alinea Productions 设计：Alinea Productions WEB MAINTENANCE AND GRapHIC 网络运维与图表 DESIGN SPECIALIST: 设计专员： WHAT BELT AND ROAD FORUM FOR Andrey Maleev 安德烈 REMITTANCE TO: Publishing and 邮购收款人： INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION MEANS FOR Distribution Department, 人民画报社 CHINESE COOPERATION IN SOUTH ASIA 28 China Pictorial 出版发行部 TELEPHONE 电话: +86-10-68413849, +86-10-68412166 POSTAL CODE 邮编: 100048 LEGAL ADVISER: Yue Cheng 法律顾问：岳成 PRINTING: 印刷： Toppan Leefung Changcheng 北京利丰雅高长城 Printing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. 印刷有限公司 OVERSEAS DISTRIBUTION: China International Book Trading Corporation (Guoji Shudian), 35 Chegongzhuang Xilu, P.O. 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Advertising Business Registration No.20170199 CASE STUDY YOUNG VOICES PRICING: ¥10 / India ₹ 100 Empowering India / p.40 Learning in and out of Class: Studying in China and Battling the Imbalance: India / p.58 India’s Growing Trade Deficit with China / p.43 COLUMN DISCUSSION Chinese Take on Indian VOL.8 NO.3 | MAY - JUNE 2017 Buddhism / p.62 What Are India’s Concerns about Visit China-India Dialogue on the Internet: the BCIM Economic Corridor? / p.46 www.chinaindiadialogue.com BOOKS Follow us on: BCIM-EC: Reviving the Traditional India: Roads / p.50 A Floating Subcontinent / p.64 CONSULTANTS OF THE CHINA-INDIA DIALOGUE ADVISORY BOARD Alka Acharya Professor and director of the Institute Ma Jiali Deputy Director of the Center for Tarun Vijay Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, of Chinese Studies, Delhi International Strategic Studies of China Reform Forum member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Hu Shisheng Director of the Institute of South and Ma Weigong Consultant of the National Institute Defence, member of Parliamentary Consultative Southeast Asian and Oceanian Studies under China of Strategic Communication at Peking University Committee on External Affairs, president of Institutes of Contemporary International Relations and former deputy editor-in-chief of China Radio Parliamentary Group on India China Friendship. Li Daokui Economics professor and director of the International T. C. A. Rangachari Former Indian Ambassador to Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua Sun Shihai Former director of the Chinese France and Germany, dealt with India’s relations University Association for South Asian Studies and former with China for over 15 years in the Ministry of Lin Minwang Research fellow and Deputy Chief deputy director of the National Institute of External Affairs. of the Center of South Asian Studies, the Institute International Strategy under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yang Yifeng Director of India Broadcast of South of International Studies at Fudan University, and a Asia Center, China Radio International research fellow with the Collaborative Innovation Sun Yuxi Former Special Envoy of the Chinese Center of South China Sea Studies at Nanjing Foreign Ministry on Afghan Affairs and former Zhang Wenmu Professor of the Center for Strategic University. Chinese ambassador to India Studies at Beihang University CHINDIA NEWS CHINA-INDIA DIALOGUE Indian Border Troops coordination with the RGOB, Indian Indian Association for Dangal, the largest Indian Box personnel, who were present at general area Overstepped China-India Doka La, approached the Chinese construction Overseas Chinese Office Hit in China Boundary at Sikkim Section party and urged them to desist from changing Established in New Delhi The Indian film Dangal, starring Aamir Khan, has the status quo. These efforts continue.” The won great popularity in China with box office sales of statement also explained Indian troops’ action: On May 19, the Indian Association for Since mid-June, Indian troops have over 1 billion yuan, the largest ever box office earnings “Such construction would represent a Overseas Chinese was founded in New for an Indian film. First released on May 5, the movie crossed the border with China in an significant change of status quo with serious Delhi. Qiu Kaiyong, a renowned Chinese attempt to block a road construction in has been appreciated by Chinese fans due to its security implications for India.” expatriate in India and the head of an excellent content and production. Dangal’s box office Donglang (Doklam) area by the Chinese The Sikkim section of the China-India overseas Chinese group there, became the side. This is the first time that Indian revenue in China has surpassed that of its home boundary was defined by the Convention first chairperson of the association. country, making China its largest overseas audience. troops have infringed on the settled Between Great Britain and China Relating to Sikkim Nineteen representatives of overseas boundary between two countries, and it and Tibet in 1890. The Indian government has Chinese from all over India, including caused a dangerous standoff between repeatedly confirmed that agreement in New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and two armies. written forms since India’s independence, Bangalore, became members of the India and Pakistan Become Full On June 26, China’s Ministry of National recognizing that it concurs with China on the council. Qiu said that the association Members of SCO Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs boundary alignment at the Sikkim section. would boost Chinese-language education responded to media questions about the Moreover, China has held 24 rounds of talks on in India and help the Chinese in India The 17th Shanghai Cooperation Organization border confrontation. In fact, the Ministry boundary issues with Bhutan since the 1980s. adapt to and become part of (SCO) summit was held in Astana on June 9. During of Foreign Affairs provided information on Although the boundary between those two Indian society, thus the summit, India and Pakistan were granted full the incident for five consecutive days. countries has yet to be settled, both sides have promoting China-India membership of the organization. Founded in 2001, According to China, the road reached basic consensus on the actual situation relations. the SCO now counts China, Kazakhstan, construction in Donglang (Doklam) area is and the alignment of the boundary. China and Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India a sovereign act within its own territory, Bhutan have no disagreement on the point that and Pakistan as its full members. and India has no right to interfere. The the Donglang (Doklam) area belongs to China. The expansion of the SCO carried historic unilateral provocation by Indian troops has significance as India and Pakistan became full violated consensus and relevant members of the bloc, SCO leaders said. agreements on border issues signed by Granting India and Pakistan membership of the Chinese and Indian governments. China is SCO will boost the organization’s development and committed to developing bilateral relations potential, according to a joint press communiqué with India, but it will also firmly defend its released after the summit. legitimate rights and interests. China Exhibition of Pictures of Hundreds of Indians requires India to respect the boundary Donate Blood in Shanghai convention and China’s territorial Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis Held BRICS Film Festival Held in China sovereignty and demands that it Under the theme “Love Shanghai, the immediately withdraw border troops that in India Life Gift from India”, the fifth Indian The second BRICS Film Festival was held in have crossed into Chinese territory. On May 4, an exhibition of pictures of Dr. blood donation drive attracted nearly two Chengdu, capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan On June 30, India’s Ministry of External Dwarkanath Kotnis was held in Delhi. This hundred Indian nationals to donate blood Province, from June 23 to 27, with filmmakers and Affairs released a statement after nearly a year marks the 75th anniversary of the at the Shanghai Blood Center on May 28, government delegates from all five BRICS member week-long silence, saying that the road doctor’s death.