Posted on 05/29/2006 7:08:41 PM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
India and China Monday [29 May] signed an historic MoU to institutionalise exchanges in military training and exercises with a view to adding more content to their building strategic relations.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed after visiting Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Chinese counterpart, General Cao Gangchuan held over two hours of talks here at the Central Military Commission headquarters. The MoU envisages other contacts between the Armed Forces and Defence Officials and experts of the two countries. The MoU is also expected to serve as an instrument for a regular and sustained dialogue on defence and national defence issues between the two countries. Earlier, Cao accorded a red carpet welcome to Mukherjee and welcomed him to China for a six-day official visit. "It is my great pleasure to host the welcoming ceremony for you from India, a friendly neighbouring country," he said after a ceremonial welcome and guard of honour by a triservice Chinese military marching contingent. "Your visit is a big event in the exchanges and cooperation between the militaries and also an important event in the China-India Friendship Year this year," Cao said in his initial comments. "Your visit this time will deepen our mutual understanding and mutual cooperation between the armed forces of the two countries," he said while describing the Indian defence minister as an "esteemed guest."
Reciprocating the warm sentiments expressed by the Chinese General, Mukherjee said that the visit has given him "an opportunity to visit your great country."
"I have heard a great deal about China's achievements. This visit has allowed me to see for myself the achievements. We greatly admire your achievements," he said. "I am bringing greetings from the Indian armed forces to the Chinese People's Liberation Army. I am also conveying the greetings from the people of India to the people of this great nation," Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee also described his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minster Li Zhaoxing as "very productive."
And these are people we are sending our jobs to....
We need to immediately halt the immigration of all Indian into U.S.
Too many of them come here, learn high technology in our universities, and take it back to India.
WHAT? Are they IDIOTS?
This is very bad news. A key strategy that the US needed to foster is an alliance, leading to military alliance, with India and Japan, and there were hopes with Russia but Russia has decidedly turned on us, and now India is run by a bunch of leftists (thanks to the Congress Party of India) who are now openly saying “China isn’t a threat (to India), they are our military ally” (e.g. the left, consisting of far left socialists and communists who see America as the enemy and deny with a blind eye the threat to India from China). The BJP was actually America’s hope, but as the BJP was a right-wing Hindu-Nationalist party we found, with no surprise, the left in America opposing the BJP, painting them as fanatical Hindus and such, and sad to say the Bush Administration played goof-ball as usual and the fact is there were elements in the Bush Administration that did not want to work with the BJP … well, the left in America and the Bush Administration got their way, the BJP lost power, and now under the tutelage of the left-wing Congress Party of India, just as expected India has now taken a decidedly left-turn and is aligning with China. The sucker punch from China will come, it will be a sucker punch on India. My God, this is very bad news for Asia. China does not have the interests of India in mind, but the subjugation of India. The sucker punch will come when China has used India for it’s own hegemonic plans. I cannot believe the Bush Administration is sleep walking into one dumb mistake after another. With the Mexican border situation, the Bush amnesty plan, and now sleep walking during the time when he needed to work with the BJP, this disaster has come as predicted by so many. I am truly coming to the conclusion that the Bush Administration may turn out to be one of the worst in negative historical impact, impart do to sheer tone-deafness and awkward leadership, next to Jimmy the Peanut Carter’s disaster.
I never did think giving India more Nuclear Technology was a bright idea.. if only that it increases those to worry about.. this doesn't sound good..
LOL! Yeah, right.
China is India's neighbor...hopefully this will increase stability and understanding in that region.
It's in both of those nations interests to get along, but I doubt they wll ever fully trust one another.
The Indians had better learn to say "please" in Chinese, it is what they will get out of the alliance.
"And these are people we are sending our jobs to...."
Yes, IBM has 50,000 there and a huge new complex and are shipping more as we speak. Just remember "greed is good" and patriotism is like, so yesterday. We allows millions of Indians to immigrate and work here but you try getting permission to immigrate or work in India. It ain't gonna happen.
India seems to be playing both ends against the middle IMHO...and this agreement, coupled wioth last year's economic accord, is strangely similar to those same type of accords announced in my Dragon's Fury Series as preludes to a world wide conflicts that erupts in those fictional novels.
Bears scrutiny...and redoubled efforts by our own state department to bring and keep INdia in our hemisphere of influence as opposed to the PRC's.
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I don't know how reliable the source [India Daily]is, but it doesn't sound all that remarkable. We do similar things with the Chinese and we did have military exchanges with the Soviet Union as well. China and India still share a militarized border and have a history of territorial disputes. Much ado about nothing.
The whole thing is a hoax and is never going to affect the indo-us relations.India is never going to trust China especially in the present scenairo when china is feeding and equipping our enemy,also the core issue of settling the border disputes and china occupied kashmir hasnt come up,what we need from china at the moment is its support as a member of the NSG for the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear pact.
Damn Jeff. After reading your series I'm wondering if you had a looking glass into the future.
I agree with Brian, except that I don't see what the Bush administration could have done to support the BJP.
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Thanks. I agree with you.
It does look like W's and Condi's strategy of trying to entice/bribe India into being a counter-weight to China is blowing up.
Time to wise up.
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