China perceives India as rival: US State Department report

China perceives a rising India as a rival and wants to constrain its strategic partnership with the US its allies and with other democracies the US State Department said in a report emphasising that Beijing intends to displace America as the worlds foremost powerComing ahead of the transition of power from Donald Trumps administration to Presidentelect Joe Bidens administration after the November 3 US presidential election the detailed policy document highlights that China is undermining the security autonomy and economic interests of many nations in the regionChina perceives rising India as a rival and seeks to impel it to accommodate Beijings ambitions by engaging economically while constraining New Delhis strategic partnership with the US Japan Australia and its relations with other democracies the report saidChina is undermining the security autonomy and economic interests of many others in the region such as member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN including those in the vital Mekong Region as well as the nations of the Pacific Islands the report addedThe 70page report states that awareness has been growing in the US and in nations around the world that the ruling Chinese Communist Party CCP has triggered a new era of greatpower competitionYet few discern the pattern in Chinas inroads within every region of the world much less the specific form of dominance to which the party aspires said the reportThe Chinese Communist Party aims not merely at preeminence within the established world order an order that is grounded in free and sovereign nationstates flows from the universal principles on which America was founded and advances US national interests but to fundamentally revise world order placing the Peoples Republic of China PRC at the center and serving Beijings authoritarian goals and hegemonic ambitionsIn the face of the China challenge the US must secure freedom said the reportChina it said seeks to diminish US influence by fostering a sense in the regions nations that Chinas dominance is inevitablePrime targets include US treatybased allies Japan South Korea Australia Thailand and the Philippines as well as emerging strategic partners such as India Vietnam Indonesia and Taiwan it saidThe Peoples Liberation Army the report said recently provoked skirmishes along its disputed border with India which killed dozens on both sides and remains in a tense standoff with Indias militaryIndian and Chinese troops have been locked in a bitter standoff in several areas along the Line of Actual Control LAC in eastern Ladakh since May 5 The situation deteriorated after the June 15 Galwan Valley clashes in which 20 Indian Army personnel were killed and an unconfirmed number of Chinese soldiers diedThe report also highlighted Beijings hard relations with Taiwan which it claims as its territoryBeijing menaces democratic Taiwan which it considers a renegade province intending to reunify Taiwan with the Mainland by force if necessary And the PLA Navy and Chinese Coast Guard increasingly challenge Japans administrative control of the Senkaku Islands it saidThe Trump administration achieved a fundamental break with conventional wisdom It concluded that the CCPs resolute conduct and selfprofessed goals require the US and other countries to revise assumptions and develop a new strategic doctrine to address the primacy and magnitude of the China challenge according to the documentThe report also highlighted the outbreak of contagious coronavirus from Chinas Wuhan city The disease has so far infected 56178 674 people and killed 1348348 others across the world The US is the worst affected countryThe Chinese Communist Partys recklessness in allowing the novel coronavirus born in Wuhan to develop into a global pandemic coupled with the concerted disinformation campaign that Beijing undertook to conceal Chinas culpability should put doubts to rest Yet many people lack a proper understanding of the character and scope of the China challenge it saidKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever