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India Voices Unusual Criticism of China’s Conduct in South China Sea
Radio Free Asia ^ | 2020-05-22 | Drake Long

Posted on 05/22/2020 10:25:32 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

India has voiced a rare note of criticism of China’s assertive actions in the South China Sea, amid a tensions between the two Asian powers on their long land border.

A New Delhi-based analyst said India is concerned over China pressuring South China Sea claimant nations that India considers partners. India is also wary that China could seek to assert itself in the Indian Ocean.

On Thursday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs commented on the recent incidents along the Line of Actual Control – the nearly 2,200 mile unsettled border between China and India. Chinese and Indian troops clashed on May 5 over road construction the Indian side was completing at Pangong Tso, a glacial lake bordering Ladakh and Tibet. They clashed again May 9 near Doklam, which borders India China, and Bhutan. Soldiers were reportedly wounded on both sides in the clashes.

At the same news conference, ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastave was also asked about recent unilateral actions by China in the South China Sea: the establishment of two new administrative districts for the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands and the naming 80 obscure geographical features over the objections of other claimants.

“(The) South China Sea is a part of (the) global commons and India has an abiding interest in peace and stability in the region,” Srivastave said. “We firmly stand with the freedom of navigation and overflight and unimpeded lawful commerce in these international waterways, in accordance with international law.”

While the statement seemed bland enough, and was consistent with India’s long-standing position on the maritime disputes in Southeast Asia, Abhijit Singh, senior fellow at the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation, said it was unusual for a government spokesman to make a public statement on the issue in this way.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; india; kag; maga; trump
Chinese survey ships have made their way to Indian waters. It appears that the Chinese navy's expansion is a prelude to incremental land grabs where they lay claim to the world's oceans.
1 posted on 05/22/2020 10:25:33 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei

Two 3rd world cesspool countries squaring off to kill each other off.


2 posted on 05/22/2020 10:41:52 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: Zhang Fei

Good for India. Gird for war.


3 posted on 05/22/2020 10:55:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Reno89519
China was 2nd world and India was 3rd world during the cold war Now there is no first, second or third world as the USSR collapsed
4 posted on 05/22/2020 11:10:54 PM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

Well neither remotely match the US and Canada so long as you don’t compare our illegal communities and cesspool cities.


5 posted on 05/22/2020 11:23:27 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: DoughtyOne

Sure, let’s help out by deporting all Chinese and Indian citizens back to their respective countries. All of them.


6 posted on 05/22/2020 11:27:34 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: Reno89519

The Indian folks may be taking our jobs, but I don’t see them
as stealing every state secret they can get their grubby
fingers on.

I’m inclined to agree though. It angers me to see our folks
who are capable ignored while they bring in cheap labor.

To me, that’s about as unAmerican as it gets.


7 posted on 05/22/2020 11:32:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Reno89519
Well neither remotely match the US and Canada so long as you don’t compare our illegal communities and cesspool cities.

I travel to Bangalore several times a year for work (or I did before this shutdown insanity). I also travel to SF with my wife for dinner, shopping or a Giants/Warriors game once in a while. Unfortunately, SF smells worse, and has human feces on the ground. Didn't see or smell that in the parts of Bangalore I stay in. Also didn't see the hordes of homeless drug addicts, and their used drug paraphernalia on the ground. Sad what's happened to SF.
8 posted on 05/23/2020 12:43:00 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Corrupt US politicians and their fellow travellers are heavily invested in China and have no interest in protecting and preserving the USA. Their fall-back position is that the USA is an evil, racist, nazi nation that ought to be destroyed anyway.

The American People had better wake up--and FAST! And give their full support to President Trump!

9 posted on 05/23/2020 4:57:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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Well neither remotely match the US and Canada so long as you don’t compare our illegal communities and cesspool cities.

Well, other than 'that' Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

10 posted on 05/23/2020 5:08:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Plan for the worst (intentional bio-weapon attack.) Hope for the best (current plan)...)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
"SF smells worse, and has human feces on the ground. Didn't see or smell that in the parts of Bangalore I stay in. Also didn't see the hordes of homeless drug addicts, and their used drug paraphernalia on the ground."

San Francisco may be the most glaring example, but the decadence of Western Civilisation has infected all parts of America, and this is not lost on the Chinese, who understand well the cycles of ascendancy, decadence, ascendancy, decadence.

The American Left, the Democrat Party, anti-Trump establishment Republicans, et al. are riding the wave of decadence for their own self-serving purposes--America and the American People be damned! Some of their supporters are as cynical or evil as they are. Some hate the USA and want to destroy it. Some are well meaning but easily manipulated or downright stupid. Some simply aren't paying attention.

The disgusting observations you make of San Francisco are glaring examples of it.

Illegal drugs are available in every American city and town, in the schools, in grammar schools. They pour across the borders. The American People seem helpless to stop it. Democrat Politicians effectively champion it, cynically protecting the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants into the USA.

This is what the Trump Revolution is all about: President Trump and his supporters are convinced that America has not yet passed the point of no return, that the decadence in America can be stopped and reversed.

President Trump was so convinced of it that he was willing to risk everything--a considerable amount in his case--to save his beloved USA from the destruction of decadence and the cynical, evil, self-serving Americans who champion it and the clueless Americans who support them and keep such politicians in office.

The deep division in American society is the division between the decadence of Western Civilisation and those who oppose it. It's that simple. It renders America and the American People dangerously vulnerable to exploitation by enemies both domestic and foreign.

The American People had better wake up--AND FAST!

11 posted on 05/23/2020 5:24:45 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Well, perhaps we just don’t know what India actually has stolen

Dell set up a concierge service to help with computer problems. In my experience it was worthless and my money badly spent. However, after it was cancelled, the Indians still had the names and email and phone numbers of the former Dell customers. They caused all sorts of problems as they ran scams with the contact data that came originally from Dell.

They got really angry when I accused them of being Pakistani trash.


12 posted on 05/23/2020 5:37:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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