How China and Indonesia can build a truly sturdy partnership
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An analysis of China and Indonesia's historical and potential partnership reveals a complex relationship shaped by Cold War-era alliances and ideological stances. Originating from the 1955 Bandung Conference, the partnership reflects evolving geopolitical dynamics in Asia and Africa.
In April 1955, amid the Cold War, 304 representatives across 29 Asian and African nations convened in Bandung, Indonesia, to discuss the principles of a more complex future world order. Among them were India, China and host Indonesia. While India would go on to champion the non-aligned movement at the 1961 Belgrade Conference, Mao Zedong’s China and Sukarno’s Indonesia were more sceptical of the colonial, Western order. Then the more US-sympathetic Suharto seized power in Indonesia in 1966....