{"id":150734,"date":"2026-05-03T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150734"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:00:24","slug":"why-does-china-portray-india-as-an-elephant-decoding-the-politics-of-animal-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150734","title":{"rendered":"Why does China portray India as an elephant? Decoding the politics of animal analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn December 2010, on the final day of his three-day India visit, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao offered a metaphorical vision for bilateral ties, suggesting that \u201cthe dragon and the elephant should tango\u201d.<br \/>\nThe analogy \u2013 dragon for China, elephant for India \u2013 had already circulated in Western academic and media circles as a comparative frame. With Wen\u2019s remark, it formally entered China\u2019s diplomatic lexicon.<br \/>\nOver the past 15 years, through cycles of border tensions and uneasy resets, China\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3352233\/why-does-china-portray-india-elephant-decoding-politics-animal-analogy?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn December 2010, on the final day of his three-day India visit, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao offered a metaphorical vision for bilateral ties, suggesting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}