I am a little disappointed that you still can't grasp the point in my post.
You don't need to remind us that the world does not run according to Chinese whims, we are fully aware of that. But India seems don't understand that the world does not run according to Indian whims.
Let me do a loose analogy to demonstrate why India's hosting Tibetan government-in-exile is immoral and can't be justified.
Tibetan government-in-exile is like a thief who is trying to steal the diamond Tibet from China. India, though officially recognize the diamond belongs to China, is harbouring that thief in his house. So India is playing duplicity over Tibet, and the inability of that thief can't justify India's duplicity.
The point you need to keep in mind is India acknowledges China's sovereignty over Tibet.
So the following stands
1)Indian govt act of hosting a group is unacceptable.
2)India's accomodation of people who trying to split China is unacceptable.
3)India's hosting them contradicts India's official stand-
4) hosting them = supporting them
5)hosting them = interfering in China's internal affairs
China doesn't recognize India's sovereignty over Kashmir,so
6) Kashmir ( according to China ) is not an internal matter of India...
I am not gonna explain more on this, because it is very clear that India has crossed the bottomline by supporting Dalai Lama and his fellows.
hembo's post has addressed most of your concerns raised in your previous post. I agree with most of what he said, but i want to add several points here.
No doubt China and India are competing with each other in many defferent fileds such as economy, politics, military, etc. We should not be surprised by such competition given the size of China and India, it is just a game which has been played everywhere for decades. On the contrary, we should welcome such game because it pushes us to grow. Since it is a game, it should be played by rules.
So far, China has not broken the rules yet, we didn't interfere with India's internal affairs. China's building harbor in Burma, connecting Pakistan with railway, selling weapons to Sri Lanka, all of these are within the rules. But India broke the rules by supporting Tibetan secessionists at the very beginning. Furthermore, India is continuing that mistake.
Since the rules have been broken, then the game will be played by no rules, the one who broke the rules in the first place should take the consequences. The funny thing is that player is complaining more loudly than anyone else.
Hopefully this clears up the confusion about the Indian
support for Dalai Lama as you put it......
See India is a democracy, and I mean a democracy in a literal sense of the term.We have a constitution which guarantees
1) freedom of debate to everyone irrespective of whether it insults any country, individual , state , state representative , any form of authority , any institution .....
2) Freedom of political activity , holding processions , strikes ,demonstrations
3) Freedom of movement of all residents in any part of India, abroad ....
4) Freedom of meeting any individual , representative of government ,state dignitary etc.
and these rights are guaranteed to all including the Dalai Lama and every -one of his followers as it is to all Indians .
There is no way these can be taken away by the government , not even under exceptional circumstances , ( except maybe for a military emergency )....and certainly not on ordinary matters like in order to appease a foreign state . This is similar to any other western democracy in the world.
I 've already explained that expecting India to expel the Tibetan would be like expecting us to compromise on our national soveriegnty.
That which is in the power of the Government i.e stopping all armed activities overtly or covertly directed to challenge Chinese control over Tibet, declaring Tibet is an integral part of China ....has already been done by the Indian Government.
for instance during the Sri Lankan civil war , a huge number of people in the state of Tamil Nadu were against Govt policies on support to the Sri Lankan Govt and openly expressed their dissent.They could not be stopped from using their right of free expression.
Again , at the moment Barack Obama is in India and there are a huge number of communist party supporters against the visit who are holding demonstrations and expressing their disapproval. Neither can they be stopped from doing so.
Coming from a different political system in China where there is relative uniformity in both administration and opinion, it may be difficult to visualize why the Indian Government cannot
"control Tibetan Protesters " like the Chinese government does many of its dissidents but that is a characteristic of our pluralistic and tolerant society .......and no government in New Delhi can do anything that contravenes this .
So officially we 've done all that could be done , but what you are asking is not within the power of the Government to do.....
