US cannot counter China in Asia without India's support: MK Narayanan

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KOCHI: Former National Security Adviser MK Narayanantoday said the US cannot counter China in the Asian region without India's support.

"India is the only country in the Asian region capable of standing against China," Narayanan said while delivering a keynote address at a two-day conference on 'US Rebalance and the Asia Pacific Region', here.

He said Chinese "exceptionalism poses a danger" to all countries which have an interests in Asia and India's approach to the situation that prevails in the region is different.

Citing loopholes in the way Washington operates in the region to counter China, Narayanan said, "The US cannot hope to go it alone or hope to succeed only with the support of smaller nations. India must factor
very highly in the designs of the United States."

There are certain incompatibilities between Washington's rebalancing strategy and India's priorities, he said in the conference also attended by former RAW chief PK Hormis Tharakan.

The former West Bengal Governor said India's effort is to see that the situation in the region "does not reach a point where China feels it could threaten India's position in Asia".

He said India does not want to see itself as a nation seeking to contain China individually or in association with the United States in the region.

Referring to the defence capabilities of both the nations, Narayanan said the current reality is that despite the Chinese military build up, China does not have any major advantage vis-a-vis India.

Speaking on the occasion, US Consul General Phillip Min said, "India's Act East policy and our rebalance to Asia are complementary approaches based on our shared democratic values and respect for the stability and prosperity that the rules-based international system has brought to the world."

"And as the United States implements our rebalance, we see India as a fundamental provider of economic growth and security across the region," Min said.

The two-day conference, which began today, is hosted by the US Consulate General, Chennai, in association with the Center for Public Policy Research (CPPR).

US cannot counter China in Asia without India's support: MK Narayanan - The Economic Times

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Indeed US is just useless without India , my comment stop here..better do more and talk less @kurup

 

[Arya Desa]

Don't worry ch*na we won't sell out a BRICS country even if it is you.

 

[lasttry]

worst nsa we had along with that traitor sonia *** licker brajesh misra


his preamble itself is wrong because china cant do shit except bully its smaller west philippine sea neighbours

 

[MokshaVimukthi]

Well, pretty much everything he said is true. What seems to be the problem here ?

 

[DeathInvader]

Just Imagine, if we did help them. What can CHINA Do then rather than defending itself.

 

[TheMatador]

Just Imagine, if we did help them. What can CHINA Do then rather than defending itself.

We build a string of pearls to take down the elephant.

 

[Ind4Ever]

Very true. INDIA can inflict more damage to China than US can . Hope US will help India to modernise it's ever expanding weaponry. Right moves cab cripple Chinese expansion plan . US INDIA relationship is seen as police force for all SCS countries. Everyone looking at this relationship as new hope for freedom of navigation

We build a string of pearls to take down the elephant.

Could u explain what you achieved in the past years with ur G Strings ? Nothing . And now counter is alread underway . Sooner or later veitnam will be equipped with lethal weapon system like 100% killer missile bramos . This alone will keep the Chinese to make any stupid steps

 

[TheMatador]

Could u explain what you achieved in the past years with ur G Strings ? Nothing . And now counter is alread underway . Sooner or later veitnam will be equipped with lethal weapon system like 100% killer missile bramos . This alone will keep the Chinese to make any stupid steps

The ancient Pakistanis ruled Indians from the Taj Mahal for 800 years. With our Chinese nuclear missile help, they will enter Delhi again like Timur the great conqueror. You will woe your ghar wapsi on your minority then.

 

[DeathInvader]

We build a string of pearls to take down the elephant.

And how is that going on? Pakistan and Maldives maybe, that's it? How about, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, US. Strings of you're doomed?

 

[SQ8]

That is a very "Be my daddy" comment. One would have expected a more balanced statement from a former diplomat coming from the country known for its balanced poise within its region.

 

[ashok mourya]

China and India are in a state of military confrontation and it is no use for the Indian political leadership and the policy establishment to pretend that it is otherwise. How do you describe relations between China and India when both nations are virtually in a state of eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation on the entire stretch of the India-China Occupied Tibet border on the icy Himalayan heights? How do you describe the China-India security environment when China obsessively perpetuates and refuses to make any efforts to resolve the boundary dispute and on the contrary in recent years is intent on provocative brinkmanship by generating border incidents and confrontations which could due to even a slight miscalculation spark off a limited border war if not a full-blown armed conflict?

Can China-India relations be described as normal and peaceful when during the recent State-visit of the Chinese President to New Delhi the Chinese Army under the Chinese President’s control engineered a serious border military stand-off with Indian troops in Eastern Ladakh and which lasted throughout the Chinese President’s visit?

Preposterous enough was a media report appearing on October16 2014 which reported that China had issued a warning to India not to proceed with plans to build a lateral border road connecting both ends of Arunachal Pradesh which is an integral part of the Indian Republic. Is India a tributary state of China whereby China feels empowered to issue ‘diktats’ to the Indian Republic? Is it not high time that the Indian Republic as a sovereign State, advises China at the highest level to back-of and that such warnings would be treated with the contempt that they deserve? Is it not time for the Indian Republic to stand up to China for whatever is the cost?

If China contends that Arunachal Pradesh is a ‘disputed territory’. then by the same token the whole of China Occupied Tibet is a disputed territory as that peaceful and spiritual kingdom was forcibly annexed by China in 1950 and thereafter subjected to a brutal ethnic and religious genocide. China had no borders with India until Tibet was annexed and appeared as China Occupied Tibet. China’s claims to Arunachal Pradesh flow in Chinese logic from its military occupation of Tibet. It is another matter that a global amnesia exists on China’s forcible military occupation of Tibet for the last six decades and more. That does not wish away the fact that Tibet today is China Occupied Tibet.

While China went in for a wholesale massive military build-up including deployment of nuclear missiles and upgradation of military infrastructure in China Occupied Tibet post the 1962 War with India despite the fact that China was not faced with any threat of military aggression from India. The Indian Republic in the Nehruvian tradition was oblivious to the evolving major and long term security threat to India. India continued in a state of denial on the China Threat to India and thereby lowered its guard. The situation in 2014- end is that China enjoys overwhelming military superiority in China Occupied Tibet which endows it with political and military coercive capabilities against India and resort to military provocations against India on the Himalayan borders.

China stands encouraged to indulge in such provocations against India because of the strategic timidity of India’s leadership over the years which prompted them to adopt weak and appeasement policies towards China. More significantly, the cardinal sin of the political leadership of the Indian Republic over the years has been to underplay or de-emphasise the persisting ’China Threat’ to India. This has carried its own costs in terms of adoption of lackadaisical approaches of the Indian Defence Ministry in preparing the Indian Army or the Indian Air Force or the Indian Navy for a high state of combat readiness to meet the China Threat. Underplaying or de-emphasising the China Threat by the policy establishment has led to a loss of a sense of urgency in India’s bureaucracy for combat preparedness against the China Threat. And, this extends to speedy acquisitions of military hardware or development of strategic defence infrastructure in the border regions.

A strategic reality check is therefore imperative to highlight the ramifications of the China Threat and this therefore needs to be done at the outset. The strategic reality check needs to focus on multiple levels of India’s approaches and readiness to face the China Threat which may erupt at any time going by the contemporaneous reading of events in China, China’s pronouncements and Chinese attitudinal inclinations towards the Indian Republic.

Needless to state is the fact that in view of the demonstrated strategic timidity of the Indian political leadership, the Chinese readings of the 1962 –Syndrome persisting in the psyche of the Indian policy establishment and Chinese arrogance on their military superiority in relation to India, China has nothing but contempt for India. It is tragic and rather pitiable to note as a strategic analyst that India’s policy makers when devising any foreign policy initiatives to offset the China Threat or any accretions to Indian Army military formations to offset Chinese military superiority or operationalising our ICBMs are weighed down by the dominant thought as to what China would think or how China would react.

Strategic reality check in relation to China-India relations and the China Threat is therefore necessary of Indian political leaderships’ record over the years and their efforts in terms of monitoring and oversight control of the combat preparedness of the Indian Armed Forces and the creation of military infrastructure that could add to Indian Army’s or Indian Air Force to prosecute effective and hard-hitting military responses that the China Threat may pose.

Indian political leadership has never paid serious military attention to matters military, which deficiency arises from a lack of requisite strategic culture and the proclivity to leave matters military to be tended by the civil bureaucracy who were even more strategic culture deficient nor inclined to study national security matters in a visionary manner. For these bureaucrats of the Ministry of Defence dealing with India’s military preparedness in relation to the China Threat was one more routine activity of their generalist bureaucratic responses. For the Indian political leadership and their bureaucratic acolytes some strategic realities that need to be highlighted are outlined below which should awaken a sense of urgency in relation to the China Threat:

- See more at: China-India Military Confrontation: Strategic Reality Check | South Asia Analysis Group

 

[lasttry]

That is a very "Be my daddy" comment. One would have expected a more balanced statement from a former diplomat coming from the country known for its balanced poise within its region.

like I said in an earlier post, he is a total jackass, one of the worst we have had. in the weakest of our times we have not gone to the US for help in return for subservience. what makes this idiot think that we will need to tie up with them to manage our interests.

along the same lines, china wont dare do shit to india. they will only wage a proxy through pakistan trying to ensure that india is badly hurt in the process of dealing with pakistani aggression.

unfortunately pakistani hatred for india does not allow them to see through this.

look at the chinese troll above giving reference to timur, thats what china thinks it can get pakistan to do.

 

[TheMatador]

And how is that going on? Pakistan and Maldives maybe, that's it? How about, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, US. Strings of you're doomed?

We have a pipeline through Myanmar and are now exploring for oil in the Andaman Sea. The dragon's claws are getting close to the elephant. Rajapaksa will be back in Sri Lanka with our military intervention if necessary.

 

[DeathInvader]

We have a pipeline through Myanmar and are now exploring for oil in the Andaman Sea. The dragon's claws are getting close to the elephant. Rajapaksa will be back in Sri Lanka with our military intervention if necessary.

Do let us know if you find anything. It will save us the resources for exploration. And when you do find something, We would be ready with our Navy to protect our Maritime Sovereignty.

We removed Rajapaksa Without any Military intervention,All your port city and what not contracts were dissolved. What could you do? Where were the dragon's claw then?

 

[Ind4Ever]

The ancient Pakistanis ruled Indians from the Taj Mahal for 800 years. With our Chinese nuclear missile help, they will enter Delhi again like Timur the great conqueror. You will woe your ghar wapsi on your minority then.

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Bhuhahaha Bhuhahaha

With nuclear weapons from China Pakistan can enters Delhi ...

And one more thing . No one in India cares about Pakistan nor we looking to have dialogue also. Now which they are asking for many months now . As everyone in India knows the capability of both Pakistan and India . So China can just watch India raise and create more infrastructure all along our borders before you threaten with war if infrastructure work progressed . Now what happend ? When China is invading India We are all waiting with