On June 15, Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (ret.), a senior fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and a China Forum expert, attended a seminar of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) themed “Two years after Galwan, the state of China-India ties.”

Zhou took stock of the root cause of the Galwan clash—Indian troops crossing the Line of Actual Control (LAC)—and pointed out that one of the future challenges for China and India is to ensure peace and stability in the border area along the disputed LAC, which is not entirely impossible. The two sides should move forward and avoid the border issue from hampering their political and economic cooperation, he stressed. In the panel discussion, Zhou said that amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the evolving China-US dynamics, shifts in India’s relations with the US and Russia will not only affect its own development, but will also, to some extent, sway its ties with China.

Moderated by Sushant Singh, senior fellow at CPR, the event featured Vikram J. Singh, senior advisor at the Asia Center of the US Institute of Peace; Shyam Saran, former Indian foreign secretary; and Suhasini Haider, diplomatic affairs editor at The Hindu.