India is already in SCO and Turkey is already an observer member in SCO. No one advocates negotiating with other countries with blinders on. You identify points of mutual interests and work toward there. In the areas where your interest conflicts, you try to lower down tension a little bit.
Although in the case of Turkey, I don't see any major conflicts of mutual interests.
Hungary has the most pro China gov't in EU right now. I don't see think that's debatable.
This is as of last year when Ukraine war already started. China had over 50% approval in Hungary, especially high amongst Orban supporters. Maybe Pew research did their polling with neoliberals in Hungary that hate Orban.
Actually, 27% approval in Turkey is not all that bad given COVID and where it is in EU. There is plenty of room for improvements there.
Keep in mind that public opinion follows the opinion of elites. Now that elites in Turkey favor engagement with China and Russia, public opinion is likely to go in that direction too. At one point, Russian public was very suspicious of China. When I started at SDF, that was the case. But over time, Russians now see China as their top ally.
More recently after the earthquakes
see 72 percent viewed China favorably for the relief.
I'm not really sure how China courted Turkey before? I haven't really seen any major evidences of it. It's just another country. And now that some of the more contentious issues are behind them and Turkey is increasingly suspicious of NATO, there is plenty of room for cooperation.
As yourself, do you think the elite opinion in Greece or Turkey is moving toward or away from China?
You haven't really proven any of this. What kind of concessions are you talking about? If Erdogan decides to look East after the election, do you tell him to f off? You seem to be making up this cost which is not apparent to me.
interesting, now you are moving toward insulting Indian and Turkish elites to make your argument. I mean there are a lot of gov't out there doing stupid things.
I think Turkey and India need to be viewed separately. The former is a regional power whose elites are increasingly looking East. Closer relationship with Turkey can help China dominate the very important MENA region. I have no issue with China selling weapons to Turkey.
India is actually going to be a global power. So there will always be many sources of conflict with India. You work with India in areas of mutual interest, which are many. India is also looking to de-dollarize and for weakening Western power. Getting relationship back to pre-2020 situation should be do-able.
