Why India cannot be an Asian power like China
RichAsianKid
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http://news.rediff.com/column/2009/nov/20/why-india-cannot-be-an-asian-power-like-china.htm
Power and influence are not given. They are taken. China knows how to
take it, India [ Images ] does not, says strategic expert B Raman.
A few observations on the eve of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh [
Images ] visit to the United States from November 23 to 26.
No thinking has been ever done in India as to what it expects out of a
long-term strategic relationship with the US. It is always the US which
decides what it will give to India and it is New Delhi [ Images ] which
accepts.
It was so with the nuclear deal which was offered by then US President
George W Bush [ Images ] in July 2005. Manmohan Singh was pleasantly
surprised when Bush offered it and then we followed it up. India's
expectations from the US in the past were limited to US pressure on
Pakistan to stop using terrorism against India, removal of restrictions
on the supply of modern dual-use technology to India and US support for
India's permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.
They remain the same. Any strategic relationship has to be a quid pro
quo relationship. Since the US has hardly any dependence on India in any
matter, there is no scope for any quid pro quo.
India visualises itself as an Asian power on par with China. Beijing [
Images ] does not see it this way. China views India as a sub-regional
Asian power and wants to keep its influence restricted to its immediate
neighbourhood. US president Barack Obama's [ Images ] visit to China has
uncomfortably brought out to India that there is a convergence of
perceptions between China and the Obama Administration on the limited
regional role of India.
China's pre-eminence has been recognised by Obama. Obama has
re-hyphenated India-Pakistan relations and quietly relegated India to
the role of a sub-regional power whose aspirations of having a status on
par with China are unrealistic.
In geopolitical matters, there is no futuristic thinking in India. The
quality of Indian thinking and analysis -- strategic and tactical -- is
poor. What passes for analysis in India is just wishful-thinking.
Nobody in India has realised and brought out that for the first time the
US, Japan [ Images ] and Australia [ Images ] have a leadership which
does not rate highly India's potential as an emerging power. There is
less and less talk of Chindia. Even today, many in India are not aware
that the new Japanese government is not as enthusiastic about India as
the previous government was. There has been no exercise in India to
analyse future scenarios in US-Japan relationship.
Someone once said that power and influence are not given. They are
taken. China has shown how to take it. India does not have the political
will and courage to fight for it and take it. It is hoping that the US
will give it. Bush and Condoleezza Rice [ Images ] seemed inclined to
bestow on India the status of an Asian power on par with China. The
Obama Administration does not seem to be so inclined.
B Raman
Chairman Mao , expert fucker of Chinese High School Girl 's cunts in China
India is divided internally .
China is united internally .
n Nov 20, 5:50 pm, RichAsianKid <RichAsian...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> As if.....
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RichAsianKid
> you must not compare India to China .
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> India is divided internally .
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> China is united internally .
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America says diversity is strength.
wakalukong
Indians are Indians ,
and Chinese are not Americans /.