Reacting to China’s Global Times article lauding the Narendra Modi government, the Congress said it was no wonder that the Chinese state media has praised him since “the Prime Minister stuck his neck in the sand as a response to China’s intrusions” and has been accommodative of interests of India’s neighbour.
An article in China’s Global Times has said that India has become more strategically confident and proactive in creating and developing a “Bharat narrative”. It praised India’s significant strides in the spheres of economic, social governance and foreign policy under Prime Minister Modi.
In a statement, Congress general secretary in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh, said, “The Prime Minister’s cheerleaders and drum-beaters are ecstatic on the official Chinese media’s praise for him. And why shouldn’t he get praise from China? After all it was he, and he alone, who — gave a clean chit to the Chinese on 19 June, 2020 with his public statement ‘Na koi hamari seema mein ghus aaya hai, na hi koi ghusa hua hai, na hi hamari koi post kisi dusre ke kabze mein hain’.”
