China-India discourse

.The Xi -Modi meet came with new expectations, as both are young, in their sixties and elevated to top office within a year of each other.They were seen to be forward looking and relatively free from burdens of history.That said ,our equations be it with Pakistan or China ,are necessarily entangled in a long and shared history of lost opportunities.Sadly, bipartite talks have always been largely hijacked by hawks. If an ascendant military contributes to a hard line in Pakistan ,the communist high echelons in China,have had a set thought process .The very recent Chinese incursion and its timing on the eve of a dialogue,is not new .It seems that the Mao Red book with its ideological hard line and provocative might ,remains their primer while we go by pragmatism laced with firmness.China is India’s largest trading 
partner.  With both sides looking to scale up bilateral trade from around $66 to $100 blln by 2015, Xi and Modi must persist with their dialogue and  break newer grounds over time, with mutually complementary statesmanship. Sino -Indian equations stay set for the long haul.