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Narendra Modi knows how to hold a grudge and wait for an opportunity to avenge an insult.
Therefore it is hardly surprising that he would be drawn to China after Uncle Sam refused him a visa.
The five-year-old wound continues to fester and has not healed with 'Time'. It appears that the snub from the US has shaped Modi's worldview and that he sees himself as part of an anti-US block.
The BJP's latest PM-in-waiting has warmed up to China and he is rather open about it. Modi visited China about a year ago, where he was accorded a grand welcome.
While he gloated in the glory, the state PR machinery went into overdrive in publicising it. Subsequently, when China released 11 Indian traders who were captured for illegal trade, Modi tweeted thanking the Chinese authorities for paying heed to his request.
The relationship is now being further bolstered through a red carpet to China for the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2013. A number of roadshows were organised across China recently apart from senior bureaucrats from the state making presentations to the prospective investors there.
Last year, Chinese High Commissioner Zhang Yan had visited Modi in Gandhinagar and invited him to China apart from expressing interest in greater cooperation between China and Gujarat.
For all his flaws, one cannot fault Modi, for less than optimum utilisation of his propaganda machinery. Courtesy his efficient media management, many countries have come to see him as a serious contender for the PM's post after the 2014 elections.
While the US has succumbed to pressure from rights groups, China has no such scruples.
Hence business with the man who is a persona-non-grata in the US appears a pragmatic option for the Chinese. Smarting from the rejection of his visa by the US, Modi is only too happy with this new friendship.
The arrangement suits both the parties. And one resembles the other in more ways than one. Though the political structures may not be similar, the authoritarian Chinese leadership, like Modi, has blood on its hands - the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the ill-treatment of ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang.
Both Modi and China have adopted an attitude of defiance when faced with criticism from the international community.
And the power of both stems from the same factor - economic progress.
One may not be off the mark totally to say Modi has keenly followed the Chinese narrative and built up his own in similar fashion.
Apparently, Modi has also been invited by the governor of Guangdong to visit the province, which forms the backbone of China's industrial might, in November, when Guangdong plans to host an international cooperation week.
This bonhomie may assume great global significance if Modi realises his prime ministerial ambitions.
The tea is already steaming. But as they say, 'there's many a slip, between the cup and the lip.'
Read more: Snubbed by U.S., CM looks towards China | Mail Online
Therefore it is hardly surprising that he would be drawn to China after Uncle Sam refused him a visa.
The five-year-old wound continues to fester and has not healed with 'Time'. It appears that the snub from the US has shaped Modi's worldview and that he sees himself as part of an anti-US block.
The BJP's latest PM-in-waiting has warmed up to China and he is rather open about it. Modi visited China about a year ago, where he was accorded a grand welcome.
While he gloated in the glory, the state PR machinery went into overdrive in publicising it. Subsequently, when China released 11 Indian traders who were captured for illegal trade, Modi tweeted thanking the Chinese authorities for paying heed to his request.
The relationship is now being further bolstered through a red carpet to China for the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit 2013. A number of roadshows were organised across China recently apart from senior bureaucrats from the state making presentations to the prospective investors there.
Last year, Chinese High Commissioner Zhang Yan had visited Modi in Gandhinagar and invited him to China apart from expressing interest in greater cooperation between China and Gujarat.
For all his flaws, one cannot fault Modi, for less than optimum utilisation of his propaganda machinery. Courtesy his efficient media management, many countries have come to see him as a serious contender for the PM's post after the 2014 elections.
While the US has succumbed to pressure from rights groups, China has no such scruples.
Hence business with the man who is a persona-non-grata in the US appears a pragmatic option for the Chinese. Smarting from the rejection of his visa by the US, Modi is only too happy with this new friendship.
The arrangement suits both the parties. And one resembles the other in more ways than one. Though the political structures may not be similar, the authoritarian Chinese leadership, like Modi, has blood on its hands - the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the ill-treatment of ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang.
Both Modi and China have adopted an attitude of defiance when faced with criticism from the international community.
And the power of both stems from the same factor - economic progress.
One may not be off the mark totally to say Modi has keenly followed the Chinese narrative and built up his own in similar fashion.
Apparently, Modi has also been invited by the governor of Guangdong to visit the province, which forms the backbone of China's industrial might, in November, when Guangdong plans to host an international cooperation week.
This bonhomie may assume great global significance if Modi realises his prime ministerial ambitions.
The tea is already steaming. But as they say, 'there's many a slip, between the cup and the lip.'
Read more: Snubbed by U.S., CM looks towards China | Mail Online
