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India Digs In Its Heels as China Flexes Its Muscles
India is recalibrating its approach to China as China’s influence expands
throughout the rest of Asia, the New York Times reports:
It has been the season of geopolitical hugs in India — with one noticeable
exception.
The exception to the cheery mood was the mid-December visit of Prime
Minister Wen Jiabao of China. Mr. Wen did secure business deals, announce
new trade goals and offer reassurances of friendly Chinese intentions. But
the trip also underscored that many points of tension between the Asian
giants — trade imbalances, their disputed border and the status of Kashmir
— are growing worse. And the Indian foreign policy establishment, once
reluctant to challenge China, is taking a harder line.
“The Wen visit has widened the gap publicly between India and China,” said
Ranjit Gupta, a retired Indian diplomat and one of many vocal analysts
pushing a more hawkish line toward China. “And it represents for the first
time a greater realism in the Indian establishment’s approach to China.”
India aspires to membership on the United Nations Security Council, and
China is now the only permanent member nation that has not explicitly
endorsed such a move. But what has rattled Indian leaders even more is their
contention that China is being deliberately provocative in Kashmir as it
grows closer to Pakistan, China’s longtime ally and India’s nemesis. China
has also been expanding its diplomatic and economic influence around South
Asia, stepping up its involvement in the affairs of Sri Lanka, Nepal and the
Maldives. |
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