China Under President Xi Stepped Up ‘Aggressive’ Foreign Policy Towards India: US Congressional Commission

China under President Xi Jinping has stepped up its “aggressive” policy toward India and “resisted” efforts to clarify the road of Actual Control that prevented an enduring peace from being realised, consistent with a report released by a Congress appointed commission.

The armies of India and China are locked during a bitter standoff at multiple locations in eastern Ladakh for the last seven weeks, and therefore the tension escalated after 20 Indian soldiers were killed during a violent clash within the Galwan Valley on June 15.

Under General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping, Beijing has stepped up its aggressive policy toward New Delhi. Since 2013, China has engaged in five major altercations with India along the road of Actual Control (LAC), said a quick issued by US-China Economic and censoring Commission.

“Beijing and New Delhi have signed a series of agreements and committed to confidence-building measures to stabilise their border, but China has resisted efforts to clarify the LAC, preventing an enduring peace from being realised, said the report and was prepared at the request of the Commission to support its deliberations.

Authored by Will Green, a Policy Analyst on the safety and Foreign Affairs Team at the Commission, the report says that the Chinese government is especially scared of India’s growing relationship with the us and its allies and partners.

The latest border clash is a component of a broader pattern during which Beijing seeks to warn New Delhi against aligning with Washington, it said.

After Xi assumed power in 2012, there was a big increase in clashes, despite the very fact that he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi several times and Beijing and New Delhi have agreed to a series of confidence-building mechanisms designed to mitigate tensions.

Prior to 2013, the last major border clash was in 1987. The 1950s and 1960s were a very tense period, culminating in 1962 with a war that left thousands of soldiers dead on each side , consistent with the records of China’s People’s Liberation Army, the report said.

The 2020 skirmish is in line with Beijing’s increasingly assertive policy . The clash came as Beijing was aggressively pressing its other expansive sovereignty claims within the Indo-Pacific region, like over Taiwan and within the South and East China seas, it said.

China is engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes in both the South China Sea and therefore the East China Sea. Beijing has built up and militarised many of the islands and reefs it controls within the region. Both areas are stated to be rich in minerals, oil and other natural resources and are vital to global trade.

China claims most of the South China Sea. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have counter claims over the world .