Sino-Indian solidarity is a powerful idea and wells up every now and then. It happened just a few years back with Dangal.
The biggest stumbling block is a few territorial disputes, but more importantly the general terribleness of the ethnonationalist Hindhu Right.
Whatever your thoughts are on CPC and Muslims -- and please let's not go into that -- it's undeniable that the official approach of the CPC is one of assimilation/integration. In contrast, the Hindu right sees Islam as a foreign religion that is incompatible with an Indian ethnostate.
In contrast, the Hindu right sees Islam as a foreign religion that is incompatible with an Indian ethnostate.
The modern Indian state exists precisely because it couldn't coexist with Muslims to the east or west. Endless internal conflict made the old empire ripe for Imperial control, and every new Hindu-Nationalist leader seems to inevitably fall into the lap of Western capitalists.
Hopefully, the Chinese sphere of influence expands and provides a third way between reactionary nationalist oppression and another generation of balkinization.
the territorial disputes are still serious, India and China have had skirmishes for decades. After the Sino-Soviet split India was aligned with the USSR
Sino-Indian solidarity is a powerful idea and wells up every now and then. It happened just a few years back with Dangal.
The biggest stumbling block is a few territorial disputes, but more importantly the general terribleness of the ethnonationalist Hindhu Right.
Whatever your thoughts are on CPC and Muslims -- and please let's not go into that -- it's undeniable that the official approach of the CPC is one of assimilation/integration. In contrast, the Hindu right sees Islam as a foreign religion that is incompatible with an Indian ethnostate.
The modern Indian state exists precisely because it couldn't coexist with Muslims to the east or west. Endless internal conflict made the old empire ripe for Imperial control, and every new Hindu-Nationalist leader seems to inevitably fall into the lap of Western capitalists.
Hopefully, the Chinese sphere of influence expands and provides a third way between reactionary nationalist oppression and another generation of balkinization.
the territorial disputes are still serious, India and China have had skirmishes for decades. After the Sino-Soviet split India was aligned with the USSR