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China out to clip India’s wings: RAW
Navin Upadhyay | New Delhi
Makes massive investments in neighbouring countries to spike nation’s regional aspirations
The Ministry of External Affairs may be playing down the incidents of repeated incursions by China, but the country’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has raised alarm bells about the Dragon embarking on a long-term strategy to encircle India and thwart it from emerging as a major regional power.
In a presentation made before the Directors General of Police and intelligence officials on Thursday, RAW pointed out that China was making massive investment in India’s neighbouring countries like Burma, Nepal and Sri Lanka and courting Pakistan to isolate India.
RAW said China was determined to prevent India from increasing its influence in the neighbourhood and that is why Beijing had decided to open its coffers to befriend these nations that badly needed foreign investments.
Outlining China’s future plan, RAW said Beijing wanted to replace the US as the world's number one super power by 2050 and at present it wanted to consolidate both its economic and military might.
The intelligence agency, which plays a major role in formulating India’s external policy, feels that since China was primarily focusing on achieving this objective, it was unlikely to undertake any military adventure against any nation, including India, which could derail its own economy.
Explaining this, a senior officer present at the meeting, told The Pioneer that the sense he got from the RAW presentation was that India was heavily relying on assessment that China would wait for four decades and emerge as world’s number one before flexing its military might. “Many of us have serious doubt about the agency’s assessment,” he said.
Commenting on the recent Chinese incursions, RAW said these were part of the well-planned design to keep India on the tenterhooks and force it to deviate attention from its primary development objectives. “As such we feel that the pinpricks of incursion would continue,” the RAW said.
Another senior official told The Pioneer that India did not want to play up reports of the Chinese incursions and come under ‘popular’ pressure to go for massive military expansion and arm acquisition to match the Chinese might. “While China was in a position to undertake both military and economic expansion simultaneously, India could ill-afford to get into such a race,” he said.
In RAW analysis of things, China’s relations with Pakistan are facing some strain due to terror attacks inside China by Muslim terrorists who have been trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, a meeting of top officials convened by National Security Adviser MK Narayanan on Thursday to discuss the situation along the Sino-Indian border has been postponed.
The meeting was of the China Study Group that comprises senior officials, including Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar and Secretaries of Defence, Home and Foreign Ministries.
The meeting was understood to have been postponed in the wake of “media hype” on the Chinese incursions along the Sino-Indian border and fresh dates are yet to be worked out.
There was intense media focus on the meeting in the wake of recent reports of incursions by the Chinese Army in Ladakh, including air dropping of expired food cans, painting of rocks red, besides others.
Top officials of the three armed forces and the Intelligence Bureau also attended the meeting.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/203399/China-out-to-clip-India%E2%80%99s-wings-RAW.html
Navin Upadhyay | New Delhi
Makes massive investments in neighbouring countries to spike nation’s regional aspirations
The Ministry of External Affairs may be playing down the incidents of repeated incursions by China, but the country’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has raised alarm bells about the Dragon embarking on a long-term strategy to encircle India and thwart it from emerging as a major regional power.
In a presentation made before the Directors General of Police and intelligence officials on Thursday, RAW pointed out that China was making massive investment in India’s neighbouring countries like Burma, Nepal and Sri Lanka and courting Pakistan to isolate India.
RAW said China was determined to prevent India from increasing its influence in the neighbourhood and that is why Beijing had decided to open its coffers to befriend these nations that badly needed foreign investments.
Outlining China’s future plan, RAW said Beijing wanted to replace the US as the world's number one super power by 2050 and at present it wanted to consolidate both its economic and military might.
The intelligence agency, which plays a major role in formulating India’s external policy, feels that since China was primarily focusing on achieving this objective, it was unlikely to undertake any military adventure against any nation, including India, which could derail its own economy.
Explaining this, a senior officer present at the meeting, told The Pioneer that the sense he got from the RAW presentation was that India was heavily relying on assessment that China would wait for four decades and emerge as world’s number one before flexing its military might. “Many of us have serious doubt about the agency’s assessment,” he said.
Commenting on the recent Chinese incursions, RAW said these were part of the well-planned design to keep India on the tenterhooks and force it to deviate attention from its primary development objectives. “As such we feel that the pinpricks of incursion would continue,” the RAW said.
Another senior official told The Pioneer that India did not want to play up reports of the Chinese incursions and come under ‘popular’ pressure to go for massive military expansion and arm acquisition to match the Chinese might. “While China was in a position to undertake both military and economic expansion simultaneously, India could ill-afford to get into such a race,” he said.
In RAW analysis of things, China’s relations with Pakistan are facing some strain due to terror attacks inside China by Muslim terrorists who have been trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, a meeting of top officials convened by National Security Adviser MK Narayanan on Thursday to discuss the situation along the Sino-Indian border has been postponed.
The meeting was of the China Study Group that comprises senior officials, including Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar and Secretaries of Defence, Home and Foreign Ministries.
The meeting was understood to have been postponed in the wake of “media hype” on the Chinese incursions along the Sino-Indian border and fresh dates are yet to be worked out.
There was intense media focus on the meeting in the wake of recent reports of incursions by the Chinese Army in Ladakh, including air dropping of expired food cans, painting of rocks red, besides others.
Top officials of the three armed forces and the Intelligence Bureau also attended the meeting.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/203399/China-out-to-clip-India%E2%80%99s-wings-RAW.html
