Delhi and Beijing join forces against the the West regarding Climatic changes
Mumbai (AsiaNews) - From delimitation of borders, to the commercial competition in Africa; from the support to the guerillas in the north-eastern states of India to the support of Pakistan in military, nuclear and political fields, many are the contentious issues that keep separated India and China, but now they are getting together to face the pressure of the industrialized nations on the reduction of emissions.
Rajiv Gandhi, as prime minister, took a major step to ease tensions and dispel suspicions when he shrugged off conventional advice and traveled to Beijing in December 1988. With this single gesture he broke the ice that had frozen bilateral relations for 34 years. China acknowledged it as a major event.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit in January 2008 was equally important. It signaled India commitment to continuing the normalization process and highlighted the economic benefits of the relationship
For the borders issue they had 13 round of talks, but the impression in India is that China is gaining time to consolidate its military presence and build up. Just before the13 round, the Chinese ambassador in new Delhi, Zhang Yan, has lent his name to a highly favorable editorial in August by the People’s Daily, saying that Sino-Indian relations had advance in all round way and with a fast pace in recent years and that the two countries complemented each other.
But only two months before, in June, an article in the Global Times, ran an aggressive attack reprimanding India for unwise military move of marshaling forces along the Arunachal border.
On the positive side, Zhan’s article talked about how India an China were jointly influencing global affairs by taking similar approaches on issues concerning environmental protection, climate change, food an energy security at the Doha round of trade talks.
The two countries largely agree regarding the climatic changes. On a recent visit to China, , India’s environment and forest minister, Jairam Ramesh, met with Chinese authorities to discuss a strategy to shift the blame on large development countries for their own failure to control carbon emissions.
Western nations are calling for emission reductions in developing countries but have not made credible commitment to do so themselves. This, despite the fact that the West bears both historical and current responsibility for the bulk of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Nothing much has transpired on the promise made by developed countries to provide substantial financial aid as well as subsidized technology transfers to developing countries to help the to leapfrog to cleaner development processes while simultaneously addressing poverty.
The recently passed US Climate Bill, for example, seeks to impose a carbon tax on goods imported from developing countries like India.
India has only just begun honing its negotiating skills at international climate change conferences where the tendency for long has been for large and formidable delegations from the West to take over the proceedings. Both nations. India and China, can make a common bargaining front since they represent one third of the global population.
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