China has used its economic clout and superpower status with increasing sophistication. The adeptness of China in flipping the international outcry on COVID originating from its lands into a sophisticated pandemic diplomacy, with the sharing of equipment and medicines, across the world, was evident. With everything from the world’s biggest trade deal the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) or new `Silk Road\', China is growing by leaps and bounds. India\'s engagement with China has involved friction lately, particularly after the Galwan valley confrontation. In this interaction, Prof. Vaidyanathan and Dr. Guha Majumdar speak of going beyond rhetoric and jingoism, particularly when such banter is for suiting the narrative of certain international factions such as that around the United States or for needless self-righteousness, and understand the evolving geopolitics and international economics in play. They close their interaction with a discussion of huayuquan, which approximately translates as discourse power, in Chinese foreign affairs, along with need for India to use its soft power as well as promote increasing awareness as well as engagement with China.
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