Wednesday, October 14, 2009

It is good to adopt cool-headed approach with China, but shows sincerity and seriousness

The Chinese objection to the visit of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Arunachal Pradesh during election campaigning is absurd and it is their highhandedness to say that the Indian state is a disputed territory. India is genuinely disapointed and concerned at Chinese objectionable remarks. China must know that Arunachal Pradesh is the integral part of India and it will remain so. China claims 90 Sq. km of Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh and wants to establish its own control, violating all norms of the validity of international border with India and neighbourly relations with it. It is not the first time that China has objected the visit of Indian leader to Arunachal Pradesh. In the past also it has objected and it has shown Arunachal Pradesh on the map as its own. Indian foreign office has rightly reacted promptly to Chinese objectionable remarks. Chinese foreign spokesperson has been quoted as saying on its military website that Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh is a disputed territory. This is China’s nefarious design on India, so it must be thwarted at all costs. China is seething with anger at the permission given by India to exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama to visit Tabang in Arunachal Pradesh in November. Dalai Lama demands autonomy of Tibet that China has kept control over the province by force and forced spiritual Tibetan leader to live in exile in India. Because of the highhandeness of China, so far 13 rounds of talks have taken place to resolve the border issues, but it has produced no result. China has occupied 43,180 sq kms in Jammu and Kashmir and 2200 Sq. km in Uttarakhand and Pakistan has also ceded 5500 Sq. km in Aksai Chin plateu to China. China also does not recognise British demarketed international border McMohan Line . Border dispute with China has been old one and it is not solved due to Chinese rigidness with its own terms, regardless of the amicable settlement sought by India. Airspace violation and incursion into Jammu and Kashmir and Laddakh is made by China at frequent intervals, though the Indian government describes them as media hype, but later on it only regrets that is of no use. China is planning to encircle India on all sides by setting on neighbours against it, besides violating border with it. India needs to to be alive to the ongoing activities of China and must lodge its strong protests seriously with the forums concerned at the international levels. When Arunachal Pradesh is the integral part of India, why India Prime Ministers and other leaders would not visit the state. China’s objection is very serious and it must be dealt with as such. China and India are the two emerging global economic powers and both are Asian giants. India is competing with China in every field that has become an eye-sore to them. China always wants to establish supremacy in Asia, which it feels to be challenged by India. That is why China offers all sorts of help to Pakistan, which is hostile to India, to disturtb it. Pakistan’s economy is in tatters but it has also become a nuclear power state. How? It is because of China only that offered and extended all helps so that Pakistan also could stand up with India on the same platform. China also does not want India to be in high club of five nuclear power states and nor does it like India to get a seat at UNSC. Though this is the time of economic paramountcy and all other considers are relegated in the back ground, China is always on the look out for grabbing Indian territory, which India must object with all mights at its disposal. It is good that Indian Prime Minister deals with China with cool-headed approach, which is best suited to the country but at the same time sovereignty and integrity must be protected at all costs.

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