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In the past few days, the "little overlord of South Asia" India has not been very quiet, following the Maldives, Bangladesh has also begun to appear "anti-Indian" voices, seeing that India's speech in South Asia is useless, and recently Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has "dumped" China's influence to expand.
According to a report by the global network, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar attended an exchange event at the Indian Institute of Management on the 30th.
Commenting on China-India relations and China's influence over India's neighbours, Jaishankar said the Indian side is aware that China "influences India's neighbours in many ways."But the impact "should not scare India", but rather say that "India can do better".
Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar S Jaishankar's "India's neighbors" naturally refer to South Asian countries such as Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the Maldives, but recently these small South Asian countries, which India regards as their "own backyard", have begun to have "anti-Indian" voices one after anotherThe most typical example is that the new Maldives ** Mouiz abandoned the "India First" line and chose China as the first country to visit after taking office.
Jaishankar believes that this is a manifestation of the spread of China's influence in South Asia, and that "global politics is a game of competition" and that India "welcomes this competition" and has the ability to compete with China.
It can be seen from Jaishankar's statementHe continues to link the growing "anti-Indian" wave in India's neighbors to what he calls "Chinese influence."This mentality can be regarded as the consistent thinking of Indian politicians, which is exactly the same as the practice of Western politicians who "dump China when they are indecided".
India should reflect on itself and blame China for everything, but in fact, Jaishankar's argument can be called nonsense, and the recent "anti-Indian" voices in South Asian countries have nothing to do with China, but India itself has messed up relations with its neighbors.
Take the Maldives as an exampleIndia has long taken the Maldives' "India First" route for grantedEven the Indian media themselves have openly admitted that India enjoys a "special status" in this small South Asian country - it can be seen that in India's eyes, the Maldives is not so much an independent sovereign country as just a "vassal" of India.
And that's not even mentioning India's oppression of Sri Lanka. In his speech, Jaishankar boasted that India was "the first country to help Sri Lanka in a crisis".But if compared with the oppression suffered by Sri Lanka, India's "help" can be called a drop in the bucket, for example, before the Chinese scientific research ship planned to dock in Sri Lanka, before the matter was skimmed, India could not wait to jump out and pressure Sri Lanka to refuse the matter.
Where does the Chinese research ship stop, what does it matter to India? It stands to reason that whether the Chinese scientific research ship can dock in Sri Lanka should be decided by Sri Lanka and has nothing to do with India, but the crazy hype of the Indian media and the pressure of IndiaOn the contrary, it exposes the fact that India has interfered in Sri Lanka's internal affairs for many years.
Over the years, the Indian media have always complained about the "lack of respect" of neighboring countries for India, but is it really other countries that "disrespect" India? When India reached a territorial swap agreement with Bangladesh in 2015, some Indian media outlets boasted that "if India opens up its citizenship to Bengalis, Bangladesh will lose half of its population." ”
India and Bangladesh leadersIndia and Bangladesh should have been equal and mutually beneficial in resolving territorial disputesBut these statements by the Indian media are not only full of arrogant tone, but also offensive in meaning. If you look through the reports of Chinese and foreign ** and think tanks on the South Asian region over the years, there are many articles criticizing India's arrogant attitude towards its neighborsThere is a "big brother" mentality in Indian diplomacy.
India, the largest country in South Asia, is supposed to play a leading role in the development and stability of South Asia and the Indian OceanBut the opposite is true, India's mind is not as broad as its territoryThis kind of calculating and condescending attitude doomed India to no friends in South Asia.