India's G-20 Presidency and India-China Standoff

The 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi has become a matter of intensive domestic as well as global debate in recent times. New Delhi has shown a fine example of global leadership quality for which the global community has lauded India. How India’s G20 Presidency will impact the regional equation is a matter of introspection. China has shown a sharp reaction to the issue of hosting of G20 event in Jammu and Kashmir implying that it has not taken this success easily. It is viewed that Chinese President Xi Jinping deliberately skipped the New Delhi summit in the backdrop of its border friction with India. Experts also advance that China will resort to pressure tactics and standoff tactics against India more in the coming days the way it acted in Doklam (2017) and Galwan (2020). The paper tries to understand whether India’s G20 success will have any impact on China’s Standoff tactics against India.