Quad ‘targeting’ China, says Consul General

Calls to decouple Indian and Chinese economies ‘opportunistic’, says Tang Guocai

China’s Consul General in Mumbai said it was “self-contradictory” to ask China to keep supply chains open, amid a current surge in Indian imports of supplies, while at the same time “threatening decoupling” between the Indian and Chinese economies. He also hit out at the India-United States-Japan-Australia grouping, known as the Quad, describing it as “an attempt for containment”. “It is self-contradictory for some Indian media and think tanks to ask China keeping the supply chain open on the one hand, and threaten decoupling with China on the other. Such opportunistic and protective ideas will only add up to the problem,” said Tang Guocai. He was speaking at a seminar on Tuesday on poverty reduction organised by China’s Consulate in Mumbai, along with the South Indian Education Society in Mumbai and the Yunnan International Research Centre, according to remarks published on the consulate’s website.