Is Bhutan moving away from Delhi... towards Beijing?

[whythiskolaveridi]

Bhutan and India have strong military and cultural relations which is hard to be broken. Each country has every right to go looking for investors and technology from any source. Bhutan is no different. The increasing Chinese interests in Bhutan should not worry India. Its purely on commercial basis. India and China had been trade partners for ancient times and the Silk Route is evident to that. They aim to increase their bilateral trade to 100 billion dollars in next 2/3 years. But then that does not mean India is drifting towards China. Similarly, Bhutan will always be a buffer state to India no matter what. Trade and friendship both are not to be mixed.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Maybe so.

But that doesn't change the fact that they are the ones coming to us and looking for diplomatic relations.

So whats ur problem?
So if one comes to form diplomatic relationship with China( which is a recognized global power), does it mean they want to be allies??
This is just like day dreaming.. And Mind u, Bhutanese Foreign policies are decided by India.... I wont be surprised, if India herself asked Bhutan to establish relationship with China....

 

[beijingwalker]

Oh yeah, I agree.

But I'm pretty sure she is already taken, and she is a Queen too. She could probably buy us all out on this forum.

she is just an average looking girl,my gf looks way better than her,and I m not joking.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

she is just an average looking girl,my gf is looks way better than her,and I m not joking.

You're a lucky man then.

I know Beijing girls are beautiful as well.

 

[terranMarine]

Calling a beauty like that an Indian is an insult to that queen.

 

[Sashan]

So whats ur problem?
So if one comes to form diplomatic relationship with China( which is a recognized global power), does it mean they want to be allies??
This is just like day dreaming.. And Mind u, Bhutanese Foreign policies are decided by India.... I wont be surprised, if India herself asked Bhutan to establish relationship with China....

You maybe right here. This is something from Hindu and the below portion from that article.

In Beijing, where Bhutan is widely seen as a close Indian ally, the moves have been seen by some analysts as being backed by New Delhi, suggesting for them a new approach in India’s diplomacy in a region where it has been wary of any Chinese influence.

“Without Indian permission, Bhutan would not take this step,” said Li Li, a South Asia scholar at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a state-run Beijing think-tank. “My personal feeling,” she told The Hindu in an interview, “is that the move must have the approval or agreement of India, as Bhutan has a very special relationship with India.”


The Hindu : News / International : Bhutan

 

[Rhino]

LOL, you shot yourself in the foot.

They both look East Asian, not South Asian.

Bhutan is in northeast indian region and northeast indians look like east asians....like me i look like chinese but iam indian

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Bhutan is in northeast indian region and northeast indians look like east asians....like me i look like chinese but iam indian

Dont u dare urself call like that Its degratory and banned in India !!

 

[manofwar]

Dont u dare urself call like that Its degratory and banned in India !!

Yeah!!Rhino can be jailed for calling himself thus!!

 

[baajey]

Since China is investing $4.8 billion in Lhasa tourist industry, a highway connects to Bhutan makes sense. Finally Bhutanese are free to visit their ancestral homeland and sell their products to China as well. Gross Happiness is meaningless this realistic world.

exactly.....to the one eyed robots

 

[GR!FF!N]

nobody knows the report of Bhutan-China is even true or not....i read this few days ago

Bhutan denies The Thimpu-based Bhutan Times has quoted Bhutan prime minister Jigmi Y Thinley, denying that there was any talk of Bhutan and China establishing diplomatic ties during his meeting with Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao at the sidelines of the Rio summit on June 21. The Bhutan prime minister was quoted by a Chinese news agency as saying Bhutan wanted to forge formal diplomatic ties with China as soon as possible. The news agency report was quoted by newspapers in India.

Bhutan denies: Real Time News and Latest Updates on Bhutan denies at The Times of India

 

[beijingwalker]

So why are your Indian friends claiming she is an Indian?

She was born in the city of Thimphu (in Bhutan), to a father that was born in Trashigang (in Bhutan), to a Grandfather that was born in Bhutan.

she is fairly dark,doesnt really look like Han Chinese,she looks like a Titetan.comparing her to those tibetan girls.

 

[Vinod2070]

LOL, you shot yourself in the foot.

They both look East Asian, not South Asian.

Even the Mongols and the Japanese looked "East Asian, not South Asian".

Didn't help you much though.

OTOH, those crushed under tanks at Tienanmen square by the CCP also looked "East Asian, not South Asian".

Not all people looking "East Asian, not South Asian" are Chin, nor half cooked Hans.

 

[DARIUS]

you are an pathetic troll
india have 1/3rd of north east and many of them are mongoloid population ..we are indian first..

see indian army and see the mongol featured soldiers..

Trolling is an Art that requires little effort!!Anyway's,as far as the question of Bhutan moving towards Beijing is concerned . . . . Let me put it this way. . . The Bhutanese people are actually growing tired by the day of China's increasing hegemonic ambitions and repeated intrusion's,here people are talking of Bhutan tilting towards China whereas the real scenario is that the Bhutanese Govt. is under intense fear of an impending conquest by the PLA to make a Tibet like incident happen.The Bhutanese are the last ones to fall victim to Beijing's ambitions and are pretty much aware of the plight the Tibetans.In fact owing to this Bhutan is coming closer to New Delhi.It seems that some people are under the impression that if a country merely increase its trade with a larger and more powerful country it means that there has been a fundamental shift in its foreign policy!!
Is China Nibbling At Bhutan? from theTribune Magazine Archive

Is China nibbling at Bhutan?
• The tiny state of Bhutan has been troubled this year by a series of border "incidents". They seem too frequent to be all the fault of straying sheep.
Is. China nibbling away at one of its weakest neighbours? THE little-known country of Bhutan is situated in the eastern Himalayas and for neighbours has Sikkim on its western frontier, India on its south and Chinese Tibet on its north and east.
The Government of India has taken over from the British Government in agreeing to guide the Government of Bhutan in its external relations, while undertaking not to interfere in. Bhutan's internal administration, and paying the smaller state a subsidy.
A writer in the Hindustan Times now reports that the implications of Chinese territorial encroachments in northern Bhutan were discussed in an Indian Cabinet meeting held in Delhi on October 3.
Bhutan, concerned about continual intrusions by Chinese troops and Tibetan graziers, has requested India to approach the Chinese Government in order to reduce the risk of further encroachments.
The Bhutanese Trade Commissioner in Calcutta in a Press statement on October 3 asserted that his Government has been anxious for some time about the intrusions which have occurred in a traditionally Bhutanese area. The traditional boundaries run along clearly-defined natural features and these boundaries have not been disputed by the Peking Government. Local inhabitants and officials informed the troops and graziers that they had "strayed" into Bhutanese territory, but the information was apparently absorbed without much effect.In September, claimed the press release, there was a "succession of violations of Bhutan's frontiers." A protest had already been sent by India to China's New Delhi embassy on September 30, and the Indian note alleged that on April 13 a Bhutanese army patrol observed a 13-man Chinese patrol which had intruded three miles inside Bhutanese territory.
On July 28 a party of five Tibetans accompanied by some 300 yaks were found camping two miles on the wrong side of the border. On September 8 more Tibetan graziers were discovered and it was found that two heaps of loose rocks had been set up — presumably to establish a "border claim" south of the traditional frontier.
On September 30 another Bhutanese patrol found graziers from Tibet continuing to use pasture-lands in 'Bhutan, and furthermore that a party of trespassing Chinese troops had dug fresh trenches. Because of the persistence of these infringements — and the increase in strength of the trespassers— the Bhutanese authorities now feel unable to dismiss these incidents as accidental and unconnected frontier transgressions.
Therefore, India, acting on behalf of Bhutan, has requested China to withdraw her troops and personnel and refrain from further violations of Bhutanese territory.
One wonders whether China is really trying to provoke or embarrass an Indian Government which already has its fair share of internal worries? China can hardly need the 18,000 square miles of Bhutan. Neighbouring Tibet is not exactly an overcrowded country.
DAVE SHIPPER

 

[Rhino]

This is the Queen of Bhutan:

And the Indians here are claiming that she is an Indian.

UR dumb....go to northeastern parts of india u will find millions of girls that looks like her..