Posted on 04/11/2005 4:45:11 AM PDT by Jeff Head
NEW DELHI - India and China, the world's two most populous countries, agreed on Monday to create a "strategic partnership" in an effort to end their longstanding border dispute and boost trade and economic cooperation.
The agreement signaled a significant shift in relations between the two Asian giants after decades of mutual distrust and suspicion.
"India and China can together reshape the world order," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said after a welcome ceremony for his Chinese counterpart, Premier Wen Jiabao, at India's presidential palace.
Together the two nations account for one-third the world's population.
The statement announcing the partnership was signed by both premiers and said the agreement would promote diplomatic relations, economic ties and contribute to the two nations "jointly addressing global challenges and threats."
India-China relations have "acquired a global and strategic character," it said.
"The leaders of the two countries have therefore agreed to establish an India-China strategic and cooperative partnership for peace and prosperity," the statement said.
Sorry, I meant this for second link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381895/posts?page=27#27
Poor Poland. Stuck between Hitler and Stalin.
Oh, Chr*st! I meant to say Pearl Harbor, just came up with the wrong words. Hopefully, if we end up fighting with China, we'll eventually put them in shock and awe. We can drop explosives on them, using their cheap electronic products as shrapnel.
Afghanistan is there to protect India from Russia. this was set up by england. Russia wanted a warm water port.
Hitler and Stalin both knew they would go at each other eventually. Hitler needed a safe rear while he took Western Europe. Stalin needed time to expand his own miltary to finally meet Germany when that time came. The pact bought what each other needed.
Does India have something to offer China that China needs in the near term? Like a way to facilitate the takeover of Taiwan?
I'm reminded of the fictional India/China/Islam alliance in some of Tom Clancy's novels, where the Islamists took point against the US, with India and China supplying "plausibly deniable" assistance. I've seen signs that the China/Islam alliance may be more than fiction. It's in China's long-term interest that we spend our military budgets chasing Osama & co rather than upgrading our abilities to fight a toe-to-toe conflict with a first-rate power (which China will be soon enough with their expanding economy)
"But China is emerging rapidly in terms of economic influence and military..."
At beginning of W's lst adm., NSA advised W of just that, but 9/11 happened and that "warning" got pushed under the rug. Our Defense Dept. budget is for present-day combat operations....WE HAVE BEEN ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL!
Exactly...and my series of books goes right to that point. It is why I wrote them. To try and explore what happens if and when China reaches that point and that alliance becomes an overt world war scenario after we have reshaped our military into something more suited for prosecuting a world-wide war on terror.
What did you know and when did you know it!!!!
LOL! ... I knew nothing!
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Didn't getcha.
Buuump!
It's like a bookmark... so I can pick up reading it later.
Not too much aught be made of the Pigking predators' playing to New Delhi's every-bit-as-corrupt.
Not to in any way underestimate the danger of the Peking pack's psychopathological hesperophobia and the Indians' inability to, so-far, get over their almost-as-organic post-colonial cringe and collectivized chip-on-the-shoulder -- when it comes down to it -- the Euro-peons' Neo-Soviet being doomed to follow its Moscow model into History's landfill -- ours is the only worthwhile FRee Market on Earth -- and the Indians are much too intelligent and endowed with an underlying common sense scrap their burgeoning relationship with America to seriosly ally with Peking's rapacious colonializers. [Two point five million square miles of other peoples' lands, states, nations and territories colonized and enslaved -- and counting!]
To boot, the Chinese have an expression to the effect that if you are carrying a stick while walking through long grass and come across an Indian and a snake you should hit the Indian and risk the snake.
Although -- come to that -- so do the [Almost-as-duplicitous] British.
[And the Singaporeans and the Malaysians [Awas! Ular di dallum rumput!] and the Thais and the Burmese and the Ceylonese and the Ugandans and the Kenyans and the South Africans and the ......................... (Fill in the blank!)]
Obsession with the lunatic left's projected desire that America at some future date be overwhelmed by meaningless alliances among various of the world's squallidly socialistic states may be the stuff of polemics posing as novels -- but hardly becomes this forum and/or its ideals!
Blessings -- B A
<< Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. China and India signed a historic accord setting out 'guiding principles' to resolve their decades-old border dispute, a move expected to boost economic cooperation and bilateral ties between the two Asian [States with a lot of people.]
Suggested Caption: Beware of the smile on the face of the tiger!
Reporting about Indian Prime Minister Singh and that rotten little Peking predator as if the elected [Well almost -- Mrs Ghandi, actually was] leader of a democracy of sorts and any one of the Peking pack's apparatchiks were of somewhat similar status.
Every Indian from Prime Minister Singh to his most humble constituent towers head and shoulders over every one of Peking's awful gang.
Perhaps I took you all wrong, so if I did, I apologize in advance.
But...Projected desire? Left? This is an actual annoucement of a strategic pact and while I admit that it is in its infant state, and I pray that it does not develop into any thing more sinister...it does not bode well for our own interests. The two countries have already (last month) announced the intention to create their own free trade area, the largest in the world. What that means of course at this point comes down to the handling of their cheap labor which (unfortunately) is very wrapped up in our own economy. IMHO, we should be doing all in our power to get closer to India IMHO, but in order to do that we are going to have to show them that we are not fickle, that there is a ntaional will and commitment to it that spans administrations.
As it is, China is moving as rapidly as possible to shore up and develop its own large Asian (and world-wide) sphere of influence, economic, militarily, and political...all areas where they will conflict with our own interests IMHO...and they apparently are making some ground. Talking about that becomes this forum very much.
Fregards.
Agreed whole heartedly.
Of course India can really count on us to sell fighter planes to there enemy so why should they trust us.
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