Of late, several articles have appeared (and continue to) in various segments of the Indian and Chinese media, creating much hype and hoopla about an impending war between both nations. Rising tension have forced both Governments to make public declarations in an attempt to dispel such fear-mongering. While the border dispute and the Dalai Lama factor continue to simmer in the background, issues such as granting a separate paper visa to Kashmiri residents, and Chinese collaboration in construction projects in PoK have only aggravated concerns. The Hindu examines the opinion of experts on the issue and their take on the current position in Indo-China relations:
Myth and Reality in India-China Relations: Subramanian Swamy
Some myths are frightening and need to be exploded. Some realities are potentially so dangerous that we can ignore them only at our peril.
Trend of China-India Friendship Irreversible: Zhang Yan
Although there are certain forces in the world that do not want to see China and India join hands, bilateral relations are standing at a new starting point, facing exciting new opportunities for development.
Coping with Rising China: K. Subrahmanyam
There is no reason to assume that India’s rapidly rising neighbour, set to become the world’s largest economy in the next two decades, will not play the normal game of nations. But the current hawkishness and jingoism in sections of the media and strategic circles in India is without basis and uncalled for, argues a veteran strategic affairs specialist.
Who stands to gain from war hysteria?: M.K. Bhadrakumar
What is abundantly clear is that neither India nor China stands to gain from the war hysteria that has been whipped up through the recent months over the relations between the two countries.
Does Beijing really want to ‘break-up’ India?: Ananth Krishnan
What the overreaction in India to an anonymous post on an obscure Chinese website calling for “splitting India” reveals about the challenges of understanding China’s changing information landscape.
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2 Comments
you are getting all these crazy ideas from our ignorant biased media.
Stop listening to the media. Use your head sometimes. China and India’s trade relations are a positive sign. Don’t fall for our media. Our media is corrupt, our politicians are fine. Don’t make stupid comments like these.
indian strategists err when cotemplating sino indian armed conflict.
let us face some hard truths:our inability to take hard decisions on any significant national security issues. we are poor teachers and poor students. our ability to bear pain is very limited and for hindus no issue is pan indian. our average politician is very corrupt and can be described as semi literate baboon. that china can think that india can be dismembered is a commentary on our strength. in the event of aconflict many airfields will be destroyed by desi saboteurs. china will only destroy the indian forward positions to cause the indian defence to collapse. china will march back as in 1962 and rest will be chaos and blood bath and end of india.