India ‘a Hitler in a dhoti’?

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India `a Hitler in a dhoti'?

 

Srinjoy Chowdhury

in New Delhi

Nov. 28. — A Hitler in a dhoti? This is what Chinese strategists

appear to be concerned about as they portray India as a

militaristic, unstable and threatening power.

The assessment is part of a comprehensive report by Dr Michael

Pillsbury, an American associated with the US National Defence

University and the Office of Net Assessment, US Department of

Defence, on Chinese strategic intentions. He added there are Chinese

authors "who emphasise the threat of dismemberment, foreign

subversion, or a land invasion by a future fascist Japan, or even

the rise to power of a madman like Hitler in India, the USA, or

Russia."

India and Japan are both considered threats. Mr Zhang Wenmu of the

China Institute of Contemporary International Relations said it is

India's intention to separate Tibet from China because "Tibetan

independence will create a buffer zone between China and India and

enable India to take bolder action on the south Asian continent, and

consequently in the Indian Ocean region without the fear of being

attacked front and rear."

There is talk of India using the "China threat". The Chinese feel,

it was used to justify the Pokhran nuclear blasts of 1998. Mr Zhang

said India realised that "in order to ease pressure from the USA

(regarding its blasts), India must challenge China." A large number

of Chinese strategists make similar points in this study by the US

Department of Defence's Net Assessment Office. It quotes over 200

Chinese authors, many of them from top Chinese defence-related

institutions like the Chinese National Defence University, the

Academy of Military Science and the China Institute of International

Strategic Studies. In comparison to India, the Chinese Academy of

Military Sciences said China is inferior in naval power and overall

weapons technology, but stronger in terms of long-range missiles.

Overall, it said, "the superiority is not great."

Many of the reports done after Pokhran II talk about the BJP fanning

nationalist emotions. Develop-ment of science and technology in

India is also taken note of. Another study by Mr Zhang Minhui talks

of "a sea-based submarine-launched nuclear strike capability by the

early 21st century." India can turn the China Threat theory — a

version of "crying wolf" — into a reality, suggested Mr Yan Xuetong

of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.

One rationale for India's desire for hegemony in South Asia, the

containment of China and the control of the Indian Ocean, said Mr

Liu Yang and Mr Guo Feng, was because it believed the Indian Ocean

was a British lake. Others consider that India believes itself to

be "the natural successor to the great British empire" even though

169 million of its people are impoverished.

Dr Pillsbury, who worked for the Reagan and Sr Bush governments,

said the Chinese concluded that despite being militarist, seeing to

dominate its neighbours and attempting to foment conflict between

China and other nations, India has an Achilles' heel — its economy.

India's economic reforms are not extensive enough and will weaken

its attempt to be a great power.

 

READER COMMENTS

Mr. Pillsbury spills the bean

Commendable, very commendable!! He almost had us eating out of his

hands. But he made that tiny mistake, when he suggested that the

Chinese think that our weakpoint is our economy and that without

economic reform we are not going to be a super power. He might as

well had added that without opening the Insurance sector to the US

corporations we will never acheive super power status. This is not

to state that Chinese do not plan to contain or dismember India.

They do. But slowly, given their regimented mindsset, the truth is

dawning on them.

 

RE: India `a Hitler in a dhoti'?

 

Quote: "169 million of its people are impoverished". They are wrong.

It is close to 300 Million people out of 1.1 Billion are

impoverished in India. BUT - the Chinese will find it difficult to

transfer power to people. With all its corruption, India has learned

the process of Democracy. Party Dictatorship in China has such a

control on Chinese labor - that there is no organized labor. WalMart

in the USA sells 90% of all goods made in China. Chinese laborers

are building roads even in Bangladesh and Pakistan. An unparalleled

exploitation of labor is taking place in China by the PARTY BOSSES.

Eventually, the underlings and the people will wake up and the Red

Army will not be able to withhold the pressure for democracy. China

will try to blame India at that juncture in history. We have to see

what USA will do, with so much dependence on China for trade and

reserve dollars (Close to 500 Billions). India must not play weak

against China,, even if it has 169 Million impoverished. China has 1

billion people in chains, with no freedom of thinking. I would

rather be able to think freely and go hungry.

Shyamal Ganguly(shyamalganguly)

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