The recent standoff between the two Asian nuclear powers, India and China, spawned 20 dead Indian soldiers alongside a shackled prime minister in Delhi seeking to save face.
As a retaliatory measure, seemingly nothing short of charade though, India’s Modi mandated banning 50 Chinese mobile applications including TikTok and WeChat. Considerable number of analysts recount India’s response as sheer symbolic for it cannot go any further in sanctioning the Chinese economy, for instance, that Beijing’s tentacles are well entrenched in the Indian economy.
The ubiquitous Chinese presence in the global market did not exclude the African continent. However, the Sino-African partnership has not yet culminated in a conflict for the actual imbalances or political leverage to be revealed….
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