Modi can write the second part of Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai?

Janjivan Bureau
Xian: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in China, his first stop the ancient city of Xian, also the hometown of President Xi Xinping.Upon his arrival at the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport, the Prime Minister was received by Shaanxi province Governor Lou Qinjian, among other Chinese dignitaries.He began his tour of China by visiting the Terracota Warriors Museum at Xian. He went around the museum that houses neat rows of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.
The question is arising that Modi can write the second part of Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai? “The key missing commodity in the China-India relationship is trust,” alluding to the unused potential of the countries to tie up. “Both sides need to speak very frankly with each other.”
Just last month China’s Xi visited Pakistan bearing tens of billions of dollars’ worth of deals in infrastructure and energy.There is no topic that is as sensitive for Indians than Pakistan, a state whose creation cleaved the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
Add to that China’s virtual “encirclement” of India, with massive investments in Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Myanmar, and you can get some idea of why New Delhi is mistrustful.
Despite the lack of trust — perhaps mostly on the Indian side of the border — the two countries have managed to broadly get along since fighting a brief war in 1962.
Trade between the two lagged in the 1970s with both countries maintaining restrictive trade regimes.It is only in the last decade that trade has really begun to grow — from $5 billion in the early 2000s to some $70 billion today.
And yet, it is only a fraction of the possibilities: China and the U.S. share trade worth 10 times that of China and India, despite being separated by oceans and thousands of miles.
For anyone who has ever been to India, it is clear that the country needs a complete overhaul of its infrastructure: roads, ports, urban centers, toilets, connectivity.
China, on the other hand, is the world’s infrastructure superpower. Why can’t the two collaborate? Or consider this: China is getting old and may soon face a labor shortage, while India is overwhelmingly young and needs to create more jobs. Again, why can’t the two join forces?