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BASICS
- For the first time, India and China will sign an Internal Security Cooperation Agreement
NOTES
Zhao Kezhi, China’s Minister of Public Security, who is set to visit India on October 22, will hold meetings with Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The duo is slated to discuss various aspects of security cooperation between the two countries. During the visit, an agreement on internal security cooperation between the two countries will be signed
- While Mr. Singh is the head of eight central armed police forces with a combined strength of about 10 lakh personnel, Mr. Zhao is responsible for day-to-day law enforcement in China and commands about 19 lakh personnel.
- The scheduled meeting may lead to a future India-China agreement on exchange of sentenced prisoners
- Currently, India does not have an extradition treaty with China, nor a pact to exchange each other’s sentenced prisoners.
- There are at least 10 Indians in Chinese prisons and an equal number of Chinese citizens in Indian prisons.
THE AGREEMENT
- The proposed pact is expected to cover areas of intelligence sharing, exchange programme, sharing of best practices, cooperation in disaster mitigation besides others
IN 2017 INDIA SIGNED A SIMILAR AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA
- Although I must add that the agreement between Russia and India is a much stronger one compared to China and India agreement
INTERESTING TIMES – CLOSER INDIA CHINA
CHINA NEEDS INDIA IN THE TRADE WAR
GOLDEN RULE OF GEOPOLITICS
- There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests.
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