Barry! Defend the ChiComs against the democratic People of the Help Desk!
Your revolutionary comrades demand it!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/17/2009 7:06:19 PM PDT by neverdem
It has often been taken for granted that China and India will rise simultaneously and peacefully in the 21st century. But a recent flare-up challenges that view. Thirty-seven years after the two countries fought a border war and 28 years since they opened settlement negotiations, the entire frontier from Kashmir to Burma remains in question. It would be dangerous to ignore this festering sore any longer.
The dispute stretches back to the British Raj, when colonial official Sir Henry McMahon drew the boundary between India and Tibet at the Shimla Convention in 1913. China has never recognized the McMahon Line, and regards the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as part of its Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Lately the border has been arousing more fervent passions than usual. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the state of Arunachal Pradesh earlier this month, irking Beijing and prompting New Delhi to assert "Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India." Earlier this year, Beijing attempted to block a $1.3 billion loan to India by the Asian Development Bank, part of which was meant for a watershed project in Arunachal Pradesh. The war of words is likely to escalate as the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama plans to visit Arunachal Pradesh next month. Beijing is pressuring India via diplomatic protests and a media campaign to make the Dalai Lama abandon his planned trip.
The causes for the recent deterioration in relations are complex. China perceives India as the weakest link in an evolving anti-China coalition of democratic and maritime powers (the United States, Japan, Australia and India). Viewing India as a pawn in Western designs to encircle and contain China, Chinese leaders worry about the ramifications of India's power particularly in Tibet, a concern fanned by the March 2008 uprisings there...
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If things get back, India could make it clear. They ONLY have nukes aimed at Beijing, Shanghaii and that one big naval base, whatsitcalled.
My money is on India!
Don’t forget to target the Three Gorges Dam!
Barry! Defend the ChiComs against the democratic People of the Help Desk!
Your revolutionary comrades demand it!
China sure sounds like it does not want to compromise.
India is a country with a many thousand year history, though younger than China. What is the historical perspective on the partitioning of the region?
Why can’t India make our cheap junk? Why does it have to be China?
I fully expect China to strike India in a limited border war. At the same time, I expect the border war to remain limited, much as China’s punitive invasion of Vietnam in 1979 ended with a pullout of Chinese forces.
India is a democratic republic, albeit a flawed one (but who isn’t?). China is a formerly communist and now fascist dictatorship.
Therefor, obama will side with China. /no sarc, not an iota
“China has never recognized the McMahon Line, and regards the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as part of its Tibetan Autonomous Region.”
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Well there’s your problem right there.
Perhaps India should simply lay claim to Tibet. Declare the country annexed, and then start negotiations.
From a position of strength.
India certainly has more in common with Buddhist Tibet, than the communists in Beijing.
Afterward. Once Tibet has been liberated. Send the Dalai Lama back to his country. To his HOME.
That wouldn’t even take a nuke. When the dam broke, that much water moving would also probably set off earthquakes throughout the region.
“Mr. Obama, we will continue to buy your debt — but only if you support us in our war against India.”
In an ideal world:
“Mr. Hu, we will continue to allow you to sell crap in Walmart — but only if you immediately withdraw all your troops from Tibet.”
They are making stuff in ever greater volumes and they speak English (sort of) Those are just two reason, of several that the get the ChiComs PO’d!
China would be fighting a war of occupation if they try and enter India. India would have theor back to the wall and China can not supply a large army that far from home.
Wow. I think you're right.
Engineering department chairmen from LA to Boston are sweating bullets right now, I’d wager....
China would then be fighting on three fronts, the Uighur, Uygur and Uigur, however you want to spell it, Tibet and India. They can’t do it!
I don’t expect India to stand down at all.
They have a more robust economy, and a burgeoning national pride.
Nationalism will cause them to react in a fairly aggressive manner, and if nuclear response to Chinese incursion is what it takes i have zero doubts as to that happening.
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