Is China encircling India?

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indicjournalists, "koenraad_elst"

<elst.koenraad@p...> wrote:

 

> I would add, even if China went completely democratic, its policy

> toward India will remain the same. I would think that the policies

> of the chinese communist governments of the past 55 years have

> seeped in well into the psyche of the chinese masses by now.

>

> I had a chinese acquintance, a very pro-democratic sort, supporter

> of the Tiannenmen square students and all that, still took a

strong

> position on Tibet and Taiwan along the official chinese lines.<

 

I've had the same experience, as when I reported on a conference by

post-Tiananmen exiles held in Leuven (Belgium) in 1992. They

angrily

rejected any pro-Tibetan attempts to get on their anti-Communist

bandwagon, including the Nobel Prize for the Dalai Lama as the Nobel

Committee's reply to the Tiananmen massacre. Even after the flight

to Taiwan, Chiang Kaishek supported the inclusion of Tibet in

China.

To put this in perspective, it must be said that the Chinese common

people including practising Buddhists consider Tibetan Buddhism

(patronized by the Mongol Yan and Manchu Qing dynasties) as very

much

part of their own tradition. The presiding deity of Beijing

(originally a Mongol/Yuan city) is a Tibetan monstrous Bodhisattva

and its chief Buddhist temple is also of the Tibetan variety.

 

But you have to give it to the Chinese opposition, as compared to

the

Indian secularists and minority activists: when it comes to national

unity and integrity, they stand together with their political

adversaries against all threats to the motherland.

 

KE

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