Thread by @China_Amb_India

Delighted to attend the Opening Ceremony of the 4th High-level Track II Dialogue on China-India Relations, delivered a speech:
in.china-embassy.org/eng/embassy_ne…

As 2 major oriental countries, China&India should avoid falling into the trap of outdated western thinking. Western mindset of power politics&law of the jungle runs counter to the trend of 21st century——peace, development&win-win cooperation. It gains no support from the peoples.

China&India should take the path of peaceful development to deliver a better life for our peoples, rather than repeat the mistake in history and choose a wrong path of confrontation and conflict between two major developing countries.

However strong it may grow, China will never seek hegemony or expansion. Some Indian people think that China has become India's “major threat” and “strategic rival”. It is a serious strategic miscalculation.

Containing others will not benefit a country with better development, nor will ganging up with others make one more secure. Once getting on someone else’s ship, one is no longer able to have the steer in control.We should uphold true strategic autonomy.

We should bear in mind the fundamental interests of our two countries, and explore ways for the two neighboring major countries to live in harmony and achieve common development and rejuvenation.

We need to uphold the strategic consensus of being opportunities of development and cooperation partners to each other instead of being threats or competitive rivals.

It is hoped that India will respect China’s core interests on issues related to Tibet, Taiwan, South China Sea etc., take a prudent attitude in words and actions, and keep its commitments.

Both sides should refrain from interference in each other’s internal affairs or engagement in any ‘alliance’ or ‘quasi alliance’ targeting the other, and avoid being alienated by third party.

Current overall situation in border area was gradually de-escalated. Hope the Indian side meet us halfway to move the situation towards stability&shift it from urgent dispute settlement to regular management&control, so as to jointly safeguard peace&tranquility in border area.

China and India should work together to take the broad road of mutual respect, dialogue, cooperation and mutual benefit, rather than the narrow log bridge of mutual confrontation, suspicion, attrition and zero-sum competition.