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As we have long suspected, the heart of the Doklam matter is Hindu duplicity and Hindu revanchism. They are looking to avenge their humiliation in 1962 and choosing the flimsiest of pretexts.
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The heart of the matter is that every single day, one is learning more and more details about the Doklam standoff. And they are coming in driblets – unfortunately, much of it is originating from the Chinese side. For example, from the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee tabloid Global Times, one could glean the following additional information just today only:
Again, what I learnt today from a reputed Russian scholar at the Institute of World Economy and International Affairs (which comes under the Russian Academy of Sciences) makes me absolutely speechless. Incredibly enough, according to the Russian scholar, China had notified to India and Bhutan “well in advance” – at least a fortnight in advance – its intention to undertake road work in Doklam. But Delhi apparently chose to “disregard the notice.”
- Bhutan’s one and only statement on Doklam (dated June 29) did not say anything to the effect that Thimpu had sought Indian help to tackle Chinese intransigence or that it consulted the Indian government.
- Bhutan was unaware that Indian military was crossing the border into territory disputed between China and Bhutan on June 18.
- The China-Bhutan border dispute is no longer such a hot potato. On the contrary, a consensus has already been reached between Beijing and Thimpu “on the practical geographical conditions and the directions of the boundary lines” between the two countries, and the residual issue now concerns only the completion of the “final delimitation.”
- Beijing is getting very close to opening its embassy in Thimpu.
Instead, what ensued was that when on June 16, Chinese army engineers started building a motor road, on June 18 “Indian border units crossed a demarcated section of the border in the Sikkim sector and pushed the Chinese out of the disputed area”. The Russians scholar writes:
The Russian scholar who is a well-wisher of my country and would never question the authenticity of India’s security concerns vis-à-vis Doklam (or China), also sounded a cautionary note:
- China’s current tough stance is explained by the belief that the Indian force has deliberately violated a demarcated section of the China-Bhutan border, which in fact amounts to an invasion in Chinese territory. What remains unclear is the project notification that was purportedly delivered by the Chinese embassy in New Delhi [to South Block] two weeks before the construction began. If this really happened, Beijing could consider the Indian military intervention as an exceptionally hostile response to a goodwill gesture.
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- Finally, we should not ignore certain revanchist sentiments currently at work in the New Delhi military and political circles that would like to gloss over India’s defeat in the 1962 war.
As we have long suspected, the heart of the Doklam matter is Hindu duplicity and Hindu revanchism. They are looking to avenge their humiliation in 1962 and choosing the flimsiest of pretexts.
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