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Beijing, July 4: China would be forced to use a “military way” to end the standoff in the Sikkim sector if India “refuses to listen” to it, a Chinese expert has warned.
As the standoff at the Doklam area continued for the third week, the longest between the two countries, the official media and the think-tanks here have said that “war is possible if the conflict between India and China is not handled properly”.
“China is trying its best to use historical lessons to reason with India+ and show sincerity in peacefully solving the problem, but if India refuses to listen, then China would have no other choice than to use a military way of solving the problem,” Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told the state-run Global Times.
Hu claimed that India is provoking China because it wanted to prove to the US that it could contain China while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the US.
But Hu said Trump was not like his predecessor Barack Obama.
“Obama believes India is important only because they share the same values, but Trump is very pragmatic, and he doesn’t treat India as a valuable ally because New Delhi is too weak to confront Beijing,” Hu opined. Continued on P4
