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India’s relations with China have great bearing in North East and more importantly the people and region of northeast share many commonalities. India and China are the two giants of Asia. In population, human resources, and potential they far outstrip any other country of Asia or even many of them combined. They are the two most populous countries of the world. They carry the weight of proud history stretching into mythology and appear to be both ageless and timeless. They are also neighbours whose inaccessible Himalayan frontiers have been made less forbidding and impenetrable by modern technology and means of communication and who have been drawn into the maelstrom of world politics in times that have made short shrift of distances and created a more unified world than would have been conceivable at any earlier age. The relationship between China and India is one of China’s most important foreign relationships. This is not only because the two countries are geologically close to each other, nor because both are ancient civilised countries with long histories, but because they are both the biggest developing countries in the world, whose populations and economies are similar to each other. Furthermore, they are rising in the age of globalisation, and will play more and more important roles in the world in the twenty- first century. Due to Hong Kong’s geographical and historical advantages, and other favourable factors, Hong Kong will play a positive role in Sino- India cooperation and, in turn, also benefit from this kind of cooperation. India and China, 4057 km border one of the longest in the world. China and India should proceed from the perspective of geo-civilisation and re-think about the meaning of bilateral cooperation. The two nations should no longer threaten each other, nor attempt to conquer each other. It should walk out of the shadow of historical conflicts and take the road of cooperation and mutual benefit as soon as possible. In the history, China and India were living peace and there were basically no wars between the two countries. A great number of Chinese intellectual scholars once went to India for study in spite of difficulties and there were Indian scholars coming to China. This kind of peaceful experience of mutual study is not only special in the history of civilisation but precious. Armed conflict between China and India happened only after the arrival of modern times and there was only once, which might be the result of adopting the geopolitical thinking set.