'When Chinese dragon meets the Indian elephant!'

This letter refers to the above titled article by Ashfaqur Rahman published on Sept. 21, 2014. While Chinese Premier was on his visit in India, the troops of both countries were facing each other at the disputed border area of Ladakh. This is a political situation that has remained unresolved for many years. But do these economic giants allow politics to interfere in their economic progress and cooperation? It doesn't appear to be so. The two Asian giants are members of BRICS, an alliance based primarily on economic cooperation and growth. If they geared their policies to be purely based on politics, then China would not have gained the economic status it has achieved today. Even today, one of the biggest markets for Chinese products is the USA.

The Sino-Indian summit was not to settle or hammer on issues of dispute but to consolidate and further expand existing relation of bilateral economic cooperation. Did the two leaders discuss Ladakh? If they did it was not highlighted. What they focused on was how to increase the cooperation on economic matters for their own respective interests. We need to learn how to separate politics and economics from interfering with each other in our national policies. Whosoever is in power should not hamper the economy of the country. The economic policies implemented by one party in power should be allowed to continue to their fruition for the country to achieve double-digit growth.

Farah Naz Sattar
Journalist and writer
Bangladesh Press Institute