Xi Jinping's China wants to annex the 'five fingers' — Ladakh, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal and Arunachal Pradesh — of its 'right palm', which Mao Zedong had referred to Tibet as.
Lobsang Sangay, President of the Tibetan government-in-exile, says China is doing to India and its other neighbours what it did to his country in the 1950s.
The Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson's remarks came a day after officials in New Delhi suggested that Indian & Chinese forces have undertaken a 'limited disengagement' in few areas.
Addressing the BJP's Maharashtra Jan-Samvad Rally via video link, the minister also said the government will ensure that India's pride is not affected.
In a piece that appeared Monday, Chinese paper, however, says that the military commanders’ meeting Saturday may have prevented a Doklam-like situation.
Senior Indian and Chinese foreign ministry officers held a video meeting Friday, a day before top military representatives of the two nations are scheduled to meet in Ladakh.
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
It is stupid to have “One-China” Policy without extracting a guarantee of “One-India” Policy. How can India offer a “one-china” policy on a platter when fingers are being cut off the palm? If the enemy slaps us on one side of the face do we show the other side too. Is that the bottom line behind this policy? Successive government have struggled with it in the last 70 years and only avoided difficult decisions by kicking the can down the road. At some point even the most weakest among us will retaliate irrespective of consequences. Time has come. We are weak, but do we want to appear imbecile doing nothing for 70 years. China does not take India seriously because of this ambivalent non-alignment which makes no sense. Align based on India’s interests and evolve the alignment on the go. We cannot know everything to make a strategic decision and we cannot wait to know everything. If QUAD makes sense for the next 10 years to manage this then we should do QUAD. Way too much debates lead to nothing. Countries have to draw red lines firmly and the time has come for India as many red-lines have been crossed by China with impunity. We act now if we want to save the nation India as we know it or else generations that come behind us will never forgive us for being so weak. All of this talk of non-alignment with any one is nonsense. It is clearly muddling our position and only exposes our vulnerabilities and indecisiveness. Now or Never.
It is high time for India to reverse the decade old policy on Tibet.China has never honoured any international treaty. The latest one is to scrap the spirit of Hongkong .We are approaching right time in post covid 19 conspricy by china ,causing enormous human/economic loss to most G7 countries .The world is getting united to punish china,but it is not easy as nothing stops china to complicate matters in democracies with free media .The recent civic troubles in US is testimony of Islamic ,leftists & media goofing by china .Next 2-3 months are important & India must wait for right opportunity to teach China & its allies Pak /Nepal a befitting lesson .The civilised world must recognise the Government of Tibet in Exile .
Nepal ,a silent colony of India in the last 1200 years under a communist agenda and under the dictacs of China has raised a new spat on border.India willgive a brutal reply
Indian policy position is quite muddied and confused right from Nehru days. This bhai-bhai stuff and gifting UN seat to China looks so juvenile for common man on the street leave alone policy experts. I cannot see how any nation can bungle like the way we did while building a nation like India. It is easy to manage a diverse country like India by painting a ambiguous confused high level vision which does not clearly articulate what the end game for India is. It suits both politicians and bureaucrats to manage people perceptions and reactions. Congress managed for decades to exploit this ambiguity and raise the India Pakistan enmity and play down the Chinese threat to India. China is the truly formidable enemy of India and clear non-ambiguous policy positions with options should be made transparent in broad terms so the political-bureaucratic spins and games that compromises India’s military establishment. It is time to articulate a cogent policy position that is a bit muscular, non-ambiguous. Even China knows India is weak in this regard and how can negotiators work with this type of policy support from the top levels. A lot has improved since Modi came to power but we have room to do more and should be more clear over time. Stating our positions clearly is not being overly nationalistic as the left leaning liberals and communists would want the whole India to believe.
Why doesn’t Hindutva India talk about letting Kashmir have a plebiscite instead of freeing Tibet? If you believe in freedoms you’d also allow Muslims to eat beef and marry whenever you want. How India can condemn China when its so fascistic and intolerant is both laughable and pathetic!
Ah! Ignorance is bliss., GS, ain’t it?
But in your case, you wear your ignorance with pride.
This article was incoherent rambling after a point.
To the commenter above, having had a close look at and having met Nepali politicians from both the Congress, Himalaya and others, I am convinced they are venal, and corrupt and would happily sell their country to the Chinese. All the best! This is unfortunate as is how badly India has treated Nepal in the past. An outcome such as that for Sikkim is probably in Nepal’s best interest, but the Kathmandu Bahaun Chettri elite (10% of population) would then lose all their privileges and the ability to extract every single aid dollar through corruption.
India must take stand as Tibet independent to China and ideally it should be under indian supervision to safeguard evasion from China again once it out of China’s clutch….
Seshadri Chari, unlike other BJP/RSS functionaries comments and argues very rationally and sensibly,never insults past freedom fighters including bete noire pt.Jawaharla Nehru .
His opinion must be taken seriously.
If the world was unable to prevent China’s invasion and annexation of Tibet in 1950, seventy years later, with so much gymming and protein shakes, the dragon is a more muscular beast. In purely historical terms, President Xi is not in the league of Chairman Mao. However, he now controls material resources that eclipse anything his country had in its early years. India needs to deal with China with the utmost sagacity, caution, protect its core interests, explore the possibility of a deeper long term economic engagement that can reduce strategic mistrust. However, it would not be wise to sign on to a containment enterprise that could end in wide ranging conflict. As much as India, even more so, the United States has to learn to live with the reality of an overarching Asian power.
No matter what the details of today’s news, China is and will everbe relentless in capturing Tibet and Ladakh, even more so than the other four fingers of Tibet (Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim and AP). Ladakh is the escape route for China into the Indian Ocean.
If India is ready to fight back militarily in Ladakh, China will NOT attack, and might even retreat. Particularly, if India has carefully constructed an international web of understandings, in particular with the US. China has always won through stealth and deceit and PsyOps and a blitzkrieg approach (as in Tibet; as in 1962), not through actual confrontational military fighting. Mr. Modi has understood this. It is too late for China now. India should actively but covertly pursue a free Pushtunistan, which will allow all the pieces to fall into place, including, a free Baluchistan, folding Pok and Pak occupied Ladakh (Gilgit-Baltistan) back into Mother India and boxing-in China.
We must ensure that trade deficit with China is reduced to a minimal in the immediate future by implementing fundamental economic reforms and making our industry competitive. This will itself put China under great pressure. We must beef up our defenses along Chinese border to ensure that this the last time China is able to do any such mischief. We should now seriously move to take over POK and GB areas by soft or hard means. We should instigate Pak to start skirmishes with us on POK border but our aim should be to attack GB area across Siachin and put Pak in trouble.
We should not hurry to settle the current dispute with China so that anti China sentiments build up and we develop a strong social movement to boycott Chinese goods. Unless Indian economy grows to a bigger size, we can not really take China head on and hence, Modi must address economic reforms as his immediate priority.
The author writes regarding the projects in Gilgit baltistan that “New Delhi should inform Beijing that all these projects are illegal and India reserves the right to take appropriate action at a suitable time.”
SInce when did China hesitate to take actions that are illegal or mala fide ? The word “illegal” won’t scare them in the least.
As for India’s taking “appropriate action”, with many times India’s military strength, China will just laugh it off.
And how will a Bharat Ratna for the Dalai enable Tibetans to go back to their homeland ?
For such an experienced politician, the author has shown amazing naivete.
Absolutely spot on. But how is this author an experienced politician? Has he ever held any post? Won any election? Or even fought an election?
Exactly.
And even more crazy is this line “A new Indo-Pacific architecture can include these countries along with financial hubs like Hong Kong…..” !
Hong Kong, you idiot, is part of China already !
Nepal? How did Nepal come into this. Nepal’s history predates Buddha and was never part of Indian, Chinese or any other kings influence. So how come the author and Yogi Adityanath are peddling this “Usurping of Nepal by the Chinese” theory?
That is because the Nepal Government, egged on by the Chinese, have started raising the border dispute with India. This also suits the ruling establishment to stoke anti India sentiment by invoking Nepali Nationalism.
The Chinese Government wants to pressurise India by make things very difficult in the Northern and Eastern borders by activating the LAC.
Tibet also existed before China as she now is. Yet, Tibet was overrun by China. Nepal is now a poor country which won’t be able to resist a Chinese invasion, particularly if the Nepalese Communist Party is bought over by China.
Tibet was a huge country with precious resources and the source of water flows to many rivers into South Asia / South East Asia and China therefore a strategic asset worth invading. Nepal wouldn’t make any sense for China to invade and would be more of a headache.
It’s normal to write a biased article and make it seem like you’re right China building a road on its side to Pakistan becomes pressuring India plus Tibet has apparently always been part of China. Just another outlet for fake news and biased free rhetoric.
How come you who is of recent birth date know for certain that Nepal had nothing to with India forget China? You appear to be somebody peddling your ignorance to a world that knows you far better than you know anything about the subcontinent’s history, and geography.
Nepal was clearly a part of the Maurya empire. Read history.
Nepal was always a part of Bharatvarsha. Bharatvarsha is often mentioned in scriptures since thousands of years. Read the scriptures.
There has never been a hard land border between Nepal and Bharat — people have always moved freely.
Nepal is culturally, spiritually, geographically, and economically a part of Bharat.
In sum, your argument that ‘Nepal’ was never a part of Bharat is nonsense.
India has to apply China policy
My country india and Or government do not do anything for tibet. But what we have to do war with China otherwise China will do much thing
It is stupid to have “One-China” Policy without extracting a guarantee of “One-India” Policy. How can India offer a “one-china” policy on a platter when fingers are being cut off the palm? If the enemy slaps us on one side of the face do we show the other side too. Is that the bottom line behind this policy? Successive government have struggled with it in the last 70 years and only avoided difficult decisions by kicking the can down the road. At some point even the most weakest among us will retaliate irrespective of consequences. Time has come. We are weak, but do we want to appear imbecile doing nothing for 70 years. China does not take India seriously because of this ambivalent non-alignment which makes no sense. Align based on India’s interests and evolve the alignment on the go. We cannot know everything to make a strategic decision and we cannot wait to know everything. If QUAD makes sense for the next 10 years to manage this then we should do QUAD. Way too much debates lead to nothing. Countries have to draw red lines firmly and the time has come for India as many red-lines have been crossed by China with impunity. We act now if we want to save the nation India as we know it or else generations that come behind us will never forgive us for being so weak. All of this talk of non-alignment with any one is nonsense. It is clearly muddling our position and only exposes our vulnerabilities and indecisiveness. Now or Never.
Good I am with you my froend
It is high time for India to reverse the decade old policy on Tibet.China has never honoured any international treaty. The latest one is to scrap the spirit of Hongkong .We are approaching right time in post covid 19 conspricy by china ,causing enormous human/economic loss to most G7 countries .The world is getting united to punish china,but it is not easy as nothing stops china to complicate matters in democracies with free media .The recent civic troubles in US is testimony of Islamic ,leftists & media goofing by china .Next 2-3 months are important & India must wait for right opportunity to teach China & its allies Pak /Nepal a befitting lesson .The civilised world must recognise the Government of Tibet in Exile .
Nepal ,a silent colony of India in the last 1200 years under a communist agenda and under the dictacs of China has raised a new spat on border.India willgive a brutal reply
Free Tibet.
Indian policy position is quite muddied and confused right from Nehru days. This bhai-bhai stuff and gifting UN seat to China looks so juvenile for common man on the street leave alone policy experts. I cannot see how any nation can bungle like the way we did while building a nation like India. It is easy to manage a diverse country like India by painting a ambiguous confused high level vision which does not clearly articulate what the end game for India is. It suits both politicians and bureaucrats to manage people perceptions and reactions. Congress managed for decades to exploit this ambiguity and raise the India Pakistan enmity and play down the Chinese threat to India. China is the truly formidable enemy of India and clear non-ambiguous policy positions with options should be made transparent in broad terms so the political-bureaucratic spins and games that compromises India’s military establishment. It is time to articulate a cogent policy position that is a bit muscular, non-ambiguous. Even China knows India is weak in this regard and how can negotiators work with this type of policy support from the top levels. A lot has improved since Modi came to power but we have room to do more and should be more clear over time. Stating our positions clearly is not being overly nationalistic as the left leaning liberals and communists would want the whole India to believe.
Most of BJP leaders have little knowledge of history. They are exploiting Nehrujis error of judgement to play poltics in foreign affairs.
Why doesn’t Hindutva India talk about letting Kashmir have a plebiscite instead of freeing Tibet? If you believe in freedoms you’d also allow Muslims to eat beef and marry whenever you want. How India can condemn China when its so fascistic and intolerant is both laughable and pathetic!
Ah! Ignorance is bliss., GS, ain’t it?
But in your case, you wear your ignorance with pride.
This article was incoherent rambling after a point.
To the commenter above, having had a close look at and having met Nepali politicians from both the Congress, Himalaya and others, I am convinced they are venal, and corrupt and would happily sell their country to the Chinese. All the best! This is unfortunate as is how badly India has treated Nepal in the past. An outcome such as that for Sikkim is probably in Nepal’s best interest, but the Kathmandu Bahaun Chettri elite (10% of population) would then lose all their privileges and the ability to extract every single aid dollar through corruption.
India must take stand as Tibet independent to China and ideally it should be under indian supervision to safeguard evasion from China again once it out of China’s clutch….
Seshadri Chari, unlike other BJP/RSS functionaries comments and argues very rationally and sensibly,never insults past freedom fighters including bete noire pt.Jawaharla Nehru .
His opinion must be taken seriously.
If the world was unable to prevent China’s invasion and annexation of Tibet in 1950, seventy years later, with so much gymming and protein shakes, the dragon is a more muscular beast. In purely historical terms, President Xi is not in the league of Chairman Mao. However, he now controls material resources that eclipse anything his country had in its early years. India needs to deal with China with the utmost sagacity, caution, protect its core interests, explore the possibility of a deeper long term economic engagement that can reduce strategic mistrust. However, it would not be wise to sign on to a containment enterprise that could end in wide ranging conflict. As much as India, even more so, the United States has to learn to live with the reality of an overarching Asian power.
No matter what the details of today’s news, China is and will everbe relentless in capturing Tibet and Ladakh, even more so than the other four fingers of Tibet (Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim and AP). Ladakh is the escape route for China into the Indian Ocean.
If India is ready to fight back militarily in Ladakh, China will NOT attack, and might even retreat. Particularly, if India has carefully constructed an international web of understandings, in particular with the US. China has always won through stealth and deceit and PsyOps and a blitzkrieg approach (as in Tibet; as in 1962), not through actual confrontational military fighting. Mr. Modi has understood this. It is too late for China now. India should actively but covertly pursue a free Pushtunistan, which will allow all the pieces to fall into place, including, a free Baluchistan, folding Pok and Pak occupied Ladakh (Gilgit-Baltistan) back into Mother India and boxing-in China.
We must ensure that trade deficit with China is reduced to a minimal in the immediate future by implementing fundamental economic reforms and making our industry competitive. This will itself put China under great pressure. We must beef up our defenses along Chinese border to ensure that this the last time China is able to do any such mischief. We should now seriously move to take over POK and GB areas by soft or hard means. We should instigate Pak to start skirmishes with us on POK border but our aim should be to attack GB area across Siachin and put Pak in trouble.
We should not hurry to settle the current dispute with China so that anti China sentiments build up and we develop a strong social movement to boycott Chinese goods. Unless Indian economy grows to a bigger size, we can not really take China head on and hence, Modi must address economic reforms as his immediate priority.
The author writes regarding the projects in Gilgit baltistan that “New Delhi should inform Beijing that all these projects are illegal and India reserves the right to take appropriate action at a suitable time.”
SInce when did China hesitate to take actions that are illegal or mala fide ? The word “illegal” won’t scare them in the least.
As for India’s taking “appropriate action”, with many times India’s military strength, China will just laugh it off.
And how will a Bharat Ratna for the Dalai enable Tibetans to go back to their homeland ?
For such an experienced politician, the author has shown amazing naivete.
Absolutely spot on. But how is this author an experienced politician? Has he ever held any post? Won any election? Or even fought an election?
Exactly.
And even more crazy is this line “A new Indo-Pacific architecture can include these countries along with financial hubs like Hong Kong…..” !
Hong Kong, you idiot, is part of China already !
Nepal? How did Nepal come into this. Nepal’s history predates Buddha and was never part of Indian, Chinese or any other kings influence. So how come the author and Yogi Adityanath are peddling this “Usurping of Nepal by the Chinese” theory?
That is because the Nepal Government, egged on by the Chinese, have started raising the border dispute with India. This also suits the ruling establishment to stoke anti India sentiment by invoking Nepali Nationalism.
The Chinese Government wants to pressurise India by make things very difficult in the Northern and Eastern borders by activating the LAC.
Tibet also existed before China as she now is. Yet, Tibet was overrun by China. Nepal is now a poor country which won’t be able to resist a Chinese invasion, particularly if the Nepalese Communist Party is bought over by China.
Tibet was a huge country with precious resources and the source of water flows to many rivers into South Asia / South East Asia and China therefore a strategic asset worth invading. Nepal wouldn’t make any sense for China to invade and would be more of a headache.
It’s normal to write a biased article and make it seem like you’re right China building a road on its side to Pakistan becomes pressuring India plus Tibet has apparently always been part of China. Just another outlet for fake news and biased free rhetoric.
How come you who is of recent birth date know for certain that Nepal had nothing to with India forget China? You appear to be somebody peddling your ignorance to a world that knows you far better than you know anything about the subcontinent’s history, and geography.
Nepal was clearly a part of the Maurya empire. Read history.
Nepal was always a part of Bharatvarsha. Bharatvarsha is often mentioned in scriptures since thousands of years. Read the scriptures.
There has never been a hard land border between Nepal and Bharat — people have always moved freely.
Nepal is culturally, spiritually, geographically, and economically a part of Bharat.
In sum, your argument that ‘Nepal’ was never a part of Bharat is nonsense.