Viewing Sino-India Relations from the Perfective of Indian Visa Policy

Looking back at history, it can be found that the Indian government has formulated a well stringent visa policy due to the impact of various factors such as India s internal affairs and foreign policies. To a certain extent, India’s strict visa policy is a product of its conservative foreign policy. With all-round development of politics, economy, and society in recent years, especially after Modi’s government took power and drove concepts of “Hindutva” and “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”, the self-confident government has carried out an “ambitious” foreign policy and continuously strengthened its ties with other countries around the world, which has effectively promoted the reform and change of India’s visa policy. Meanwhile, the flourishing visa policy also drives the transition of India’s foreign policy. In the 21st century, as the largest developing countries in the world, the relationship between China and India has been regarded as “Dragon Elephant Dispute” and it attracts worldwide attention. As Asia’s largest neighbor, China and India develop robustly, and the intention and possibility of cooperation and trust-building in bilateral economy, politics and culture are getting much stronger. However, for a long time in the past, India s strict visa policy has become a hurdle of the bilateral relations. Reviewing the literature, it is found that there are fruitful outcomes in the study of Sino-India relations, but few studies have probed into Sino-India relations from the changes of the visa policy. This paper attempts to sort out changes of Indian visa policy and the history of Sino-India relations, clarify the relationship between them, and make a judgment on the development of Indian visa policy and Sino-India relations.