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India Journal - South Asian News for Southern California
India-China Buy-Buy
Date Submitted: Thu Dec 23, 2010
BY MOHINDER SINGH
Nearly 52 years ago during the then Chinese Premier Chou En Lais visit to India, the people of India, particularly school children, were made to chant Hindi-Cheeni Bhai Bhai in the procession when Premier Chou En Lai was taken from New Delhi Air Port to the Rashtrapati Bhawan. I was present in Delhi and heard the loud chanting Hindi-Cheeni Bhai Bhai. This rhetoric and artificial friendship was short-lived only for about three years.
The Chinese government showed its true color of deception and betrayal, and attacked India in October 1962. The Chinese turned out to be enemies of India. The Chinese forcefully grabbed hundreds of miles of Indian border area. Indian forces suffered heavy casualties, more than that of the Chinese. The border dispute has not yet been resolved in five decades.
After a stalemate of India-China relations for many years, a little improvement took place, particularly in trade dealings. Thereafter, exchange of mutual visits started taking place, even at a high level. In spite of some improvements in India-China relations the Chinese government has been creating some pin pricks for India. China demanded that Sikkim is part of China. Later China claimed that Arunachal Pradesh belonged to China. China has been creating some or the other problem for India by grabbing miles of area in ***************** Kashmir. Not issuing proper visas to the residents of Indian Kashmir is another recent problem. Sometimes I felt so disgusted with the behavior of China that I felt like writing an Editorial titled India-China Bye-Bye, but better sense refrained me.
Inspite of all the strains and pin pricks, some good things happened between India-China relations.
It was hoped that the recent visit of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboa would solve some, if not all, core irritants between India and China. But it has proved to be a hopeless exercise. The Prime Ministers of India and China discussed all the issues and the irritants but they did not resolve any. They broke the ice but there was no break-through.
Bahut shor suntte thay pehlu mein dil ka, jab kaata tu ik katra khoon nan nikla.
Not a single irritant between India and China has been resolved. The Chinese Premier cleverly used good words about India and its Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but made no attempt to resolve any problem.
India and China, however, have made some modest progress in only one aspect and that is trade. They have decided to expand trade to $100 billion by 2015, from $60 billion at present. China is Indias largest trading partner but the balance of trade is in favor of China. China exports more to India than it imports from India. India wants to reduce the trade gap but cant because China is able to increase its exports to India and there is no progress on Indias bid to open Chinese markets to its software, pharmaceuticals and farm products. There is almost a race going on between India and China for increasing exports. India wants China to buy more from India and China wants India to buy more from China. China has succeeded to outdo the recent visit to India by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Chinese Premier brought a contingent of 400 business executives to India as compared with 250 American business executives who accompanied the U.S. President to Mumbai, the financial capital of India. The Chinese Premier managed to sign business deals worth $16 billion with India as against $10 billion business deals signed by U.S. President Obama.
The Chinese Premier does not seem to be keen and interested in resolving the long standing issues and core irritants with India. He wants these issues to continue lingering. He aims to concentrate only on trade.
India Journal - South Asian News for Southern California
India-China Buy-Buy
Date Submitted: Thu Dec 23, 2010
BY MOHINDER SINGH
Nearly 52 years ago during the then Chinese Premier Chou En Lais visit to India, the people of India, particularly school children, were made to chant Hindi-Cheeni Bhai Bhai in the procession when Premier Chou En Lai was taken from New Delhi Air Port to the Rashtrapati Bhawan. I was present in Delhi and heard the loud chanting Hindi-Cheeni Bhai Bhai. This rhetoric and artificial friendship was short-lived only for about three years.
The Chinese government showed its true color of deception and betrayal, and attacked India in October 1962. The Chinese turned out to be enemies of India. The Chinese forcefully grabbed hundreds of miles of Indian border area. Indian forces suffered heavy casualties, more than that of the Chinese. The border dispute has not yet been resolved in five decades.
After a stalemate of India-China relations for many years, a little improvement took place, particularly in trade dealings. Thereafter, exchange of mutual visits started taking place, even at a high level. In spite of some improvements in India-China relations the Chinese government has been creating some pin pricks for India. China demanded that Sikkim is part of China. Later China claimed that Arunachal Pradesh belonged to China. China has been creating some or the other problem for India by grabbing miles of area in ***************** Kashmir. Not issuing proper visas to the residents of Indian Kashmir is another recent problem. Sometimes I felt so disgusted with the behavior of China that I felt like writing an Editorial titled India-China Bye-Bye, but better sense refrained me.
Inspite of all the strains and pin pricks, some good things happened between India-China relations.
It was hoped that the recent visit of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboa would solve some, if not all, core irritants between India and China. But it has proved to be a hopeless exercise. The Prime Ministers of India and China discussed all the issues and the irritants but they did not resolve any. They broke the ice but there was no break-through.
Bahut shor suntte thay pehlu mein dil ka, jab kaata tu ik katra khoon nan nikla.
Not a single irritant between India and China has been resolved. The Chinese Premier cleverly used good words about India and its Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but made no attempt to resolve any problem.
India and China, however, have made some modest progress in only one aspect and that is trade. They have decided to expand trade to $100 billion by 2015, from $60 billion at present. China is Indias largest trading partner but the balance of trade is in favor of China. China exports more to India than it imports from India. India wants to reduce the trade gap but cant because China is able to increase its exports to India and there is no progress on Indias bid to open Chinese markets to its software, pharmaceuticals and farm products. There is almost a race going on between India and China for increasing exports. India wants China to buy more from India and China wants India to buy more from China. China has succeeded to outdo the recent visit to India by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Chinese Premier brought a contingent of 400 business executives to India as compared with 250 American business executives who accompanied the U.S. President to Mumbai, the financial capital of India. The Chinese Premier managed to sign business deals worth $16 billion with India as against $10 billion business deals signed by U.S. President Obama.
The Chinese Premier does not seem to be keen and interested in resolving the long standing issues and core irritants with India. He wants these issues to continue lingering. He aims to concentrate only on trade.
