Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visit to India this week will likely be the most significant meeting between the leaders of China and India since Rajiv Gandhi’s visit to Beijing in 1988. Indeed, India’s leading business daily has gone so far as to suggest that Xi will bring along with him commitments to invest $100bn over the next five years. But while ties between India and China are growing quickly, such estimates remain highly unrealistic and risk saddling this burgeoning relationship with unrealistic expectations.
中國國家主席習近平本週的訪印之旅,很可能將成爲1988年拉吉夫•甘地(Rajiv Gandhi)訪問北京以來兩國領導人最重要的一次會晤。實際上,印度主要商業日報甚至表示,習近平將在此次訪問期間承諾,今後5年對印投資1000億美元。然而,儘管印中關係正在迅速發展,這樣的估計仍是極不現實的,不切實際的期望有可能會拖累兩國蓬勃發展的關係。