clearly the chinese know who to suck up to. hint: it's not manmohan
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'China alarmed over rising support'
26 Mar 2008, 0111 hrs IST,Indrani Bagchi,TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/China_alarmed_over_rising_support/articleshow/2899724.cms
NEW DELHI: Global strategic analyst Stratfor believes that Beijing was
disturbed by the sight of Pranab Mukherjee and Condoleezza Rice
jointly addressing the Tibet issue in Washington.
"Alarm is rising in Beijing that the US, India and other nations —
including the UK — are actively supporting the Dalai Lama in an
attempt to force policy changes in China. Protecting its territorial
integrity is of utmost concern to China... Beijing is hypersensitive
to real or perceived threats, always assuming the worst about
outsiders' motives," global strategic analyst Stratfor said.
"India's decision to allow the Dalai Lama to seek refuge in northern
India in 1959 has perturbed the Chinese government ever since. Beijing
believes India could control him more effectively if it wished to —
and as New Delhi has in the past — but is simply choosing not to," it
added.
In India though, China plays a unique "divide" card — wooing Congress,
while treating the UPA government with thinly veiled contempt. A
delegation from the Communist Party of China's international cell
visited Congress headquarters here to propose a seminar in Beijing at
the end of 2008 to commemorate 20 years of Rajiv Gandhi's visit to
China in 1988.
The leader of the delegation, Li Jinjun, also formally proposed that
Rahul Gandhi head the Indian delegation. While there was little
mention of Manmohan Singh's visit to China, there were glowing
references to Sonia Gandhi's trip.
Over the weekend, the EU parliament made its first call for a limited
boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Its president, Hans-Gert
Pottering, told a German daily, "If there continue to be no signals of
compromise, I consider boycott measures to be justified."
The only other European leader to endorse this has been French foreign
minister Bernard Kouchner, but this call has received little traction
from around the world. Back home, MEA's silence on China's arrogant
behaviour with Indian diplomats is attributed to India's traditional
diffidence towards the Chinese. This is the second diplomatic
aggression by the Chinese towards India in the last few months after
China protested against the PM's visit to Arunachal Pradesh in
February.
Last time, India stuck to an anodyne statement about Arunachal being
an integral part of India. MEA, caught off balance by China yet again,
will wait for the foreign minister and the foreign secretary to return
from Washington before taking a position.
From: v
'China alarmed over rising support'
26 Mar 2008, 0111 hrs IST,Indrani Bagchi,TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/China_alarmed_over_rising_support/articleshow/2899724.cms
NEW DELHI: Global strategic analyst Stratfor believes that Beijing was
disturbed by the sight of Pranab Mukherjee and Condoleezza Rice
jointly addressing the Tibet issue in Washington.
"Alarm is rising in Beijing that the US, India and other nations —
including the UK — are actively supporting the Dalai Lama in an
attempt to force policy changes in China. Protecting its territorial
integrity is of utmost concern to China... Beijing is hypersensitive
to real or perceived threats, always assuming the worst about
outsiders' motives," global strategic analyst Stratfor said.
"India's decision to allow the Dalai Lama to seek refuge in northern
India in 1959 has perturbed the Chinese government ever since. Beijing
believes India could control him more effectively if it wished to —
and as New Delhi has in the past — but is simply choosing not to," it
added.
In India though, China plays a unique "divide" card — wooing Congress,
while treating the UPA government with thinly veiled contempt. A
delegation from the Communist Party of China's international cell
visited Congress headquarters here to propose a seminar in Beijing at
the end of 2008 to commemorate 20 years of Rajiv Gandhi's visit to
China in 1988.
The leader of the delegation, Li Jinjun, also formally proposed that
Rahul Gandhi head the Indian delegation. While there was little
mention of Manmohan Singh's visit to China, there were glowing
references to Sonia Gandhi's trip.
Over the weekend, the EU parliament made its first call for a limited
boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Its president, Hans-Gert
Pottering, told a German daily, "If there continue to be no signals of
compromise, I consider boycott measures to be justified."
The only other European leader to endorse this has been French foreign
minister Bernard Kouchner, but this call has received little traction
from around the world. Back home, MEA's silence on China's arrogant
behaviour with Indian diplomats is attributed to India's traditional
diffidence towards the Chinese. This is the second diplomatic
aggression by the Chinese towards India in the last few months after
China protested against the PM's visit to Arunachal Pradesh in
February.
Last time, India stuck to an anodyne statement about Arunachal being
an integral part of India. MEA, caught off balance by China yet again,
will wait for the foreign minister and the foreign secretary to return
from Washington before taking a position.
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