India and China are both important trading partners and key global players, top envoys from the United Kingdom and Germany said Friday morning at the NDTV World Summit 2025.
British High Commissioner Lindy Cameron admitted China’s heft but stressed ‘India will be more important’, while Dr Philipp Ackermann said, “It is not either/or… it is India AND China.”
Asked about China’s rise in the global economic and trade spaces, both spoke about the need to ensure a diversity of trade partners, particularly amid increasingly volatile global geopolitics.
“None of us wants to be dependent on (only) one country,” Cameron said.
The remarks came against the backdrop of global supply chains being disrupted by wars in Ukraine and West Asia, as well as United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
