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Posted on 09/12/2010 4:40:37 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China’s High Risk India Gamble
September 10, 2010 By Sujit Dutta
China is exerting pressure on India on a range of fronts. It’s time for India to push back—and to reach out to Taiwan.
China loves to keep the pot boiling with countries it perceives as potential rivals, a fact no more evident than it is with its dealings with India in recent years. China’s recent decision to deny a visa to Indian Lt. General B. S. Jaswal, head of the Northern Command, is therefore just another example of its determination to find new issues to further complicate the already complex web of India-China differences.
The game is being played at multiple levels with Jammu and Kashmir, which is seen by China as an area of ‘international dispute’ in the same way as Arunachal Pradesh. At first glance, it seems a relatively recent diplomatic gambit. But it’s one that was first introduced some years ago, when the planned visit to Ladakh by the People’s Liberation Army Commander of the Lanzhou Military Region that covers Xinjiang (which sits opposite Jammu and Kashmir) was cancelled at the last moment by China on the grounds that Pakistan had protested that the territory is disputed.
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One thing India should do is to adhere to strict reciprocity on all diplomatic issues with China—unilateral concessions don’t seem to help matters. Another step India should take is to boost ties with Taiwan and invite a ministerial team for talks on trade and investments. And it would be useful if India’s leaders moved to open discussions with select Southeast Asian states such as Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore on China’s increasingly assertive behaviour across Asia—fears are growing about the growing gulf between Chinese rhetoric of peace and harmony and its actions.
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It would be nice for the USA to get some help with Taiwan. Let’s have India strengthen ties, Japan do the same (and go nuclear) and see where we are at then.
The rest of the world laughs or takes advantage of countries perceived to be weak no matter who they are.
Malabar Naval Exercises - Navies of the United States, Australia, India, Japan and Singapore - in the Indian Ocean region.
Stick a .45 in their mouth and they get it real quick!
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions."
- Thucydides
My money's on India.
Japan is not going to go nuclear. If they do, very bad things are probably ahead.
(pinging DTogo because maybe he can explain this better than I can)
I'm not so sure about that. India has bought into the AGW hoax hook, line and sinker. The greenies appear to have fully infected their society.
Right now, I'm looking at a plastic bag (sigh) with a "Save Our Planet" slogan on it. At the nearest supermarket there are ads celebrating a future "freedom" from pesticides. At work, I am accosted by propaganda signs advertising the complex as "The Greenest Workplace in the World".
The flooding to the north is disturbing. Their TV news media appears to have drunk the "if it bleeds, it leads" kool aid.
I am disillusioned.
Japan has already "gone nuclear" in the sense of power generation. Not sure of the need for their own bomb with the US military presence there, and it's a very hot political potato given their experience with The Bomb in WWII.
Bads things ahead? Like Japan using it? Highly unlikely. It's neighbors will exercise mock outrage for their own domestic politics, and trot out Japan's WWII aggression - they do that anyway.
A nuclear Japan is nowhere near the regional threat of N Korea, or an unstable Pakistan infested with Taliban sympathizers. IMHO
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I have never thought that Japan would have to go nuclear and that I would support it. I’m an American patriot and it’s better for both nations to have Japan as an ally relying on our nuclear umbrella. But what if “Obama’s” keep getting elected? Can Japan trust the USA to protect Japan against bullying by China? I’m not sure with Obama in there that we can trust the USA to protect the USA from bullying. Hopefully Obama will end the liberal drift of the country by the example he is setting showing the complete bankruptcy of liberal policies both domestically and internationally. But . . . Japan may need to assert its own interests without reliance on the USA. Very dangerous stuff for Japan and the USA. Maybe Palin will win in 2012 and we won’t have to worry about it for a while.
Japan cold have a nuclear bomb ready to be dropped within 60 days. It already has the fissile material and the empty internal matrix for many such devices, IMHO.If it did not, it would be a startegic idiocy.Japan is a master of strategy in foreign affairs and in war.
The press has, not the gov't nor the people. Sure people will spout off about saving the world, but when their wallet is hit, they will change their tune.
The flooding to the north is disturbing. Their TV news media appears to have drunk the "if it bleeds, it leads" kool aid.
The "flooding" is a controlled release of water. Sure, the water levels are high - but no higher than they were calculated to be. As you said, the media is grossly exaggerating. (I returned from a business trip to the so-called "flooded" areas last night. Since I didn't fancy a swim in the river, I was fine - except for my wife's anxious calls)
I doubt if it would take that long. While I’m sure Japan doesn’t now have one, I’m also sure that they’ve got a “just in time” assembly process set up somewhere and have run all the computer models they need. The only thing I’m unsure about is the amount of weapons-grade material they have squirreled away.
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