Manasarovara,Nepal,Manipur&Chinese Threat

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> Sacred Manasarovara,Nepal,Manipur&Chinese

> Threat

Srinivasan Kalyanaraman

> <kalyan97@g...> wrote:

> Encirclement and Manasarovar as cultural capital of

> Bharat

> The death cult of islamism is one part of the siege

> or encirclement.

> The other part relates to the territorial ambitions

> of China. When

> Nehru wept on a radio message to the nation, after

> being stabbed in

> the back along the Mcmahon line, he had himself to

> blame, after

> quietly acquiescing in the annexation of Tibet by

> China.

>

> Will Bharat become strong enough to ensure a free

> Tibet and the

> departure of Chinese presence from the roof of the

> world?

>

> The diabolical nexus between USA-Pakistan-China in

> promoting the

> islamist nuke in Pakistan has to be unraveled.

>

> What do the strategic pundits think of the

> possibility of declaring

> Tibet as a zone of peace and the removal of the

> nuclear missiles from

> Tibet positioned to strike San Francisco, London and

> Kanyakumari? It

> is like a guy sitting at the top of a summit and

> threatening the

> people at the foothills. Located on the roof of the

> world at a height

> of about 17,000 ft. above sea-level, that much of

> rocket-lift is saved

> for a rocket launcher. No wonder, the Chinese dragon

> is seeking to

> entrench itself on this summit. Is the occupation of

> Tibet also

> related to the need to reach waters to 50% of

> China's land mass which

> is a Gobi desert?

>

> One would have thought that lebensraum of Hitler was

> a dated idea. Not

> so, with the Chinese perception of a time-line of

> hegemony and empire.

>

> What are the chances that China would break up into

> Xinxiang,

> Mongolia, Tibet as Soviet Union did a few years ago?

>

> Whata glorious day it would be to realise the vision

> of a Dharma

> empire, reclaiming Manasarovar at the foothills of

> Mt. Kailas as the

> cultural pilgrimage capital of Bharat and hand it

> back to the Lama of

> Buddha's heritage. Let old dream dreams, let the

> young realise visions

> as S'iva smiles and as River S'arada emerges to join

> Ganga, out of the

> locks of his crown into the pun.yabhu_mi. Let

> Lohitya waters reach

> Kanyakumari through a National Water Grid.

>

> Kalyanaraman

>

> Pioneer, Sept. 15, 2004

>

> Encirclement of India

>

> Claude Arpi

>

> In early 1950, a few weeks after India decided to be

> the "first

> nation" outside the communist world to recognise Red

> China, a young

> Mumbai journalist running a magazine called Mother

> India prophesised

> the invasion of Tibet. It was several months before

> Mao's troops

> walked on the Roof of the World. He wrote: "It is

> quite on the cards

> that soon she (Tibet) will be added to Mao's

> territorial possessions.

> But the story is different with Nepal. Mao will

> perhaps wish to reach

> out through Tibet and interfere with Nepal's present

> status.

>

> "Nepal has good defence-resources, though an

> out-of-date political

> structure, and India will be particularly interested

> in the security

> of this neighbour of hers, since there are 16

> railroads leading from

> the Nepalese border into our country and the Gurkha

> soldiers are an

> important part of our own Army. An extension of

> Mao's rule to Nepal

> will lay India open to easy attack by him and

> consequently cannot,

> under any circumstances, be tolerated. It will mean

> definitely a

> prelude to a war between China and India."

>

> There are several interesting features in this

> article, the first one

> being that the journalist, KD Sethna, was a disciple

> of the great

> Rishi Sri Aurobindo and that all his articles were

> vetted by the

> master who several times pointed out at the danger

> of Communist China

> reaching India's doorsteps and engulfing what Mao

> named the palm

> (Tibet) and the five fingers (NEFA, Sikkim, Bhutan,

> Nepal and

> Kashmir). Another remarkable feature of Sethna's

> piece is that 54

> years later, the situation does not appear to have

> improved and the

> threat over India remains. In the same article,

> Sethna stated: "What

> the alarmists declare is that if we did not

> recognise Mao he would

> precipitate a military clash with us."

>

> However today the position is poles apart: Nobody is

> alarmed either in

> the corridors of South Block or the media.

> Particularly after Mr

> Vajpayee's visit last year to Beijing, India is

> again becoming friend

> (if not yet brother) with China and the new

> Government (like its

> predecessor) is actively "engaging" China.

>

> Nevertheless, it remains a fact that the situation

> in Nepal-as it was

> 55 years ago-is very worrying and the ascendancy of

> the Maoists,

> whether they are supported by Beijing or not, is not

> a good omen for

> India. One can only hope that the new Foreign

> Secretary, who has been

> posted in Kathmandu and should have some knowledge

> of the situation,

> will do something to "engage" the King and his

> Government and

> encourage the creation of the conditions which will

> carry the populace

> with them and not against.

>

> In the meantime, Beijing is more and more "engaged"

> in Nepal. An

> Agency report mentioned: "Nepal's Crown Prince

> Paras' first visit to

> China resulted in the establishment of a series of

> aid projects for

> Nepal... China has agreed to provide nearly NRS 450

> million (US

> $6,250,000) to Nepal this fiscal year to support

> ongoing projects as

> well as to initiate new ones."

>

> Another difference from the early 1950s is that

> today China is a power

> to reckon with. Remember when Tibet was invaded in

> 1950 China was

> nothing. It was recognised only by a few "fraternal

> communist

> nations". During his stay in Moscow in 1949-1950 for

> several months,

> Mao had had to literarily crawl in front of Stalin

> to get material

> support for his country.

>

> In 2004, though Red China is dead and gone, under

> the banner of "the

> peaceful rise of China", the Forth Generation's

> leadership has

> transformed the Middle Kingdom into an Eden of wild

> capitalism (Mao

> must be turning in his mausoleum). China today is on

> top of the world

> or, to put it more correctly, on the top of Olympus.

> Beijing is indeed

> triumphant. New China was perhaps not able to get

> the better of the

> United States, but as an Indian paper puts it:

> "Western sports

> officials and journalists no longer talk of China

> taking over the US

> supremacy of world sport-unchallenged for a

> century-as a possibility.

> Rather, it is an inevitability."

>

> This has not come by wishful thinking or prayers;

> China has work hard

> and invested much for this: Its sports budget is

> astronomical. The PLA

> Daily reported that Beijing spent $720 million a

> year on their Olympic

> sports programme alone. For 32 gold, it is good

> return. Furthermore,

> China believes that in four years time, the Middle

> Kingdom will find

> its proper place at the centre of the world. For the

> Chinese psyche in

> which "face" is so central, this is imperative. More

> and more analysts

> sense that China will take the lead in the world

> during the 21st

> century. The "peaceful rise of China" means that

> Beijing will do

> everything to keep the image of a peaceful nation

> till China rises to

> the top in 2008.

>

> Till then, it does not mean that Beijing will do

> nothing and merely

> watch the world. In recent months its foreign policy

> has never been so

> assertive, especially against an India (with its one

> and only silver)

> considered very weak. It is not only in Nepal that

> China is keeping

> the pressure on India, it is in all its

> neighbourhood.

>

> I had written earlier about the mysterious lake in

> Tibet. Beijing has

> managed to keep the State of Himachal Pradesh on

> tenterhooks for

> several weeks, causing crores of rupees in expenses

> to the exchequer,

> just because the leadership in Beijing refused to

> allow an Indian team

> to visit the "natural" dam. Road construction to the

> Indian border was

> probably the reason for the landslides and China was

> obviously not

> keen to update Delhi about it.

>

> In Manipur, where the agitation is linked to the

> murder and rape of

> Thangjam Manorama, a militant, by the Assam Rifles,

> a deeper angle has

> recently come to light. The Website Indiareacts.com

> reported: "Raids

> on Manipur university professors and at least seven

> students unearthed

> details of telephone calls made to Hong Kong...

> During questioning,

> one of the professors broke down and confessed to

> visiting Hong Kong

> nine times in the past six months. A proposal was

> recovered in the

> raid for Chinese mediation of the Manipur issue. A

> further trail led

> to five Manipuri insurgent leaders who had regular

> meetings with MID

> agents based in Myanmar."

>

> We know about Myanmar and Beijing's support to the

> military junta (and

> its aversion to Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Laureate

> who, let us not

> forget, studied at the Institute of Advance Studies

> in Simla for years

> and is considered close to India). Beijing provides

> important economic

> assistance to Rangoon and since the coup in 1988,

> China has built

> important infrastructures (roads, bridges, power

> plants, harbour

> facilities), which in turn serve Beijing own

> strategic interests.

>

> Isn't this one more subtle pressure on India's

> borders? Another

> worrying incident is the rising harassment and

> persecution of Buddhist

> tribals by militants of the National Socialist

> Council of Nagaland

> (IM) & (K) in remote parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The

> militant outfits

> have demanded annexation of land from the Buddhist

> and issued a decree

> for their conversion to Christianity. The villagers

> were given two

> options only-embrace Christianity or face capital

> punishment.

>

> The objective of the NSCN (IM) is to establish a

> "Greater Nagaland"

> based on Mao Zedong's ideology. Its manifesto is

> based on the

> principle of socialism for economic development with

> a religious

> addition "Nagaland for Christ". A powerful cocktail!

> We could continue

> the list with the supply of arms to Bangladesh; or

> the Beijing

> orchestrated saga of Dr AQ Khan in Pakistan. The

> rise of China,

> whether peaceful or not, should be of great concern

> to India.

>

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