Friday, April 15, 2011

India must be wary of growing Sino-Pak ties

China has been keeping Pakistan in good humour and extends help in its nuclear development programmes and other fields for a long time despite knowing well that its help might be used against India. First of all, China considers India as its formidable rival in Asia while the later always tries to improve relations with the former. It is also a fact that India is not a country to be subservient to any others in the world, no matter what size and economically and militarily big they might be. India is itself emerging as the super economic power of the world and its size in terms of population is only second to China. It is also an eye-sore to big and hostile powers. The rapid development of India in all fields are seen by some other big powers of the world as challenge to their supremacy. China also has been harbouring grudge against India since it provided asylum to the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who has been fighting to get free Tibet from the shackles of China.That is why in retaliation, China has created dispute over boundary between the two. Since the birth of Pakistan by carving out of India, China found it a good bet to keep India entangled in neighbourly quarrel so that it could not develop fast. One thing also to be kept in view by India that some big powers are jealous of its fast development and would always place hurdles in its way. So, India always needs to be wary of close co-operation between China and Pakistan, though India has already expressed concerns over the development.Because hostility between India and Pakistan can be used by China to its benefit by disturbing India. If incident in the past is anything to go by, there are a number of examples when Pakistan has ceded India territory to China only to get it engaged with China in dispute. Though Pak Foreign ministry has said that there is no reason for any country to be threatened by its ties with China, it can not keep history under the carpet. It is correct that Pakistan-China relations are time tested and they have an all-weather friendship.At the same time, it is also time-tested that growing friendship poses danger to India. On the recent incident of brief detentions of each other’s High Commission employees by Pakistan and India, China has spoken in favour of Pakistan that it is focussed on ensuring friendly relations with India. On the issue of detaining Pakistani national named Abdul Rauf in Chile, who has been allegedly linked to the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane, China says that it is not a matter of one individual. There are a few individuals claiming to be Pakistanis who have been arrested in Chile for some visa related issues. These Chinese views apparently goes in favour of India. So, it is indicative of the fact that India must be alive to the growing Sino-Pak ties and put preparation in place to face any eventuality that comes in the way.

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