中印关系虽现缓和，军事关系仍停滞在2020年
Despite a China-India thaw, military relations are stuck in 2020
中印关系出现缓和，但两国军事关系仍停留在2020年的状态，军方沟通依旧受阻。尽管中印领导人近三年会面三次，直航、边境贸易点和朝圣活动相继恢复，印度军队与中国军方的沟通仍不如美国军方与中国人民解放军顺畅。
Chinese President Xi Jinping has met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi three times in the past three years. Indian pilgrims are back at Kailash, the Tibetan mountain sacred to Hindus and Buddhists. Air China has restarted flights to New Delhi. But can trust grow between two armies that meet only in a crisis?
And why does the Pentagon now talk to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) more easily than India’s army does?
In September, Xi made his first visit to India in nearly seven years; Beijing says it wants both countries to be “good neighbours and friends”. Later that month, US President Donald Trump hosted Xi at the White House. Two capitals welcomed Xi. But only one lets its army talk properly to China’s.
The Sino-Indian thaw has reached everything except the military. Direct flights have returned after nearly six years. Three border trading points have reopened and trade now stands at more than US$100 billion a year. Leaders, traders and pilgrims cross the Himalayas. Why not soldiers?
来源：南华早报 · scmp.com