"Why India is better placed to lead the Global South than China," an Indian scholar wrote in an article for Indian media outlet Firstpost on Wednesday, attempting to discredit China with the "debt trap" rhetoric while praising India.

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China and India have sought in recent weeks to ease a tense military standoff along their mountainous frontier. The drawn-out standoff, triggered by China’s furtive encroachments on the icy borderlands of India’s Ladakh region in 2020, has fostered rival military buildups and intermittent clashes along the Himalayas.

India’s oil demand growth is expected to exceed China’s for the first time in 2024, and continue in 2025. According to Kang Wu, global head of macro and oil demand research at SPGCI, India’s oil demand in the current year grew by 180,

China and India have agreed to work toward a solution to their long-running border dispute in the Himalayas after a military standoff there that began with a deadly clash in 2020.

"Your currency in the world is your track record, your relationships, and your trust. And China's hurting at all three.”

China and India agreed on Wednesday to work on easing their long-running border dispute, as the two Asian giants resumed a formal high-level dialogue for the first time in five years.

Analysts also believe the India-China rapprochement will not affect India’s strategic cooperation with the United States.