New Delhi:With India dropping Mandarin from its list of foreign languages included in the National Education Policy (NEP), China claims that it will affect the bilateral relationship between both countries.
Criticising the move, Zhao Gancheng, the director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, was quoted as saying by the Global Times, "As the border conflict is yet to subdue, the Indian government now wants to extend the lingering skirmish between the two countries to the education and cultural level, which is very dangerous... Cultural exchanges form the cornerstone of the bilateral relationship between Beijing and New Delhi, and if the base is sabotaged, relations are likely to deteriorate seriously."
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