Indian response to Chinese arrogance inadequate

Tarun Vijay

Commenting on the Chinese refusal to receive Lt. Gen. B.S.Jaswal, Shri Tarun Vijay, national spokesperson of the BJP and MP (Rajya Sabha) said the response of the Indian Government should have been more stringent and adequate. He said an abrasive attitude towards Indian sensitivities and helping India’s enemies has become a hall mark of China’s India policy while carrying on trade and commerce activities which are heavily in its favour.

 At a time when Kashmir is on a boil, supported and guided by Pakistan, China has shown its Pro-Pakistan attitude by refusing to welcome Lt. Gen Jaswal thus boosting the morale of anti-Indian separatists. The defence exchanges do serve a purpose under an appropriate atmosphere and such exchanges occur between the two institutions , in the present incident, between members of Indian Armed Forces and Peoples’ Liberation Army. If such exchanges are influenced by factors of the ‘location’ of such members, the purpose gets defeated. Afterall the exchanges are meant to ensure resolving issues through face to face interactions and finding solutions and not to aggravate the unresolved issues.  China has done exactly the opposite of what was expected of such visits. The response of Indian govt. to Chinese arrogance is sheepishly low key and inadequate to say the least. We must ask Beijing what will be its response if the issues of Tibet’s freedom and Xinxiang’s disputed merger with mainland land China, against which a strong movement is building up amongst the Uyghur people is opened by India?

It’s not Lt. Gen. Jaswal who has been snubbed but the sovereignty of the Tricolour has been hurt. Of late under UPA dispensation the honour of Tricolour has been shrinking. Those who wear tricolor, the Indian citizens, are not only refused visa, if they are residents of Kashmir and Arunachal, but the protectors of the Tricolour, army commanders, too are embarrassed bringing down India’s prestige in global quarters.

Of late India has also been playing down the Chinses intrusions in Indian Territory. I am attaching scanned copies of two documents which prove how India stopped work under NREGA in Leh last year under pressure from Chinese PLA and Indian government didn’t provide any protection to the Indian citizens to carry on the legitimate road building work in villages situated within Indian Territory near China border. It exposes the govt. lies about-merely cover-ups-on Chinese intrusions and raises serious issues about India’s surprising low key, defensive response to Chinese intrusions.

India must answer befittingly to the Chinese arrogance and make it feel the economic punch. Merely cancelling two low level delegations to China carry no conviction of the Indian govt to protect the honour of its citizens and the protectors of India’s sovereignty- the Forces.

 

Tarun Vijay

Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
National Spokesperson, BJP
Hon. Director, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation
A centre for civilisational values and policy research

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Repected Tarun Vijaji, This

by Dr K Prabhakar Rao - 09/08/2010 - 00:29

Repected Tarun Vijaji,

This is not first time that Red China played such anti Indian games. After 1962 war, the relations between the two countries were strained.We evendidnot look at each other fora long time. Nehru died of shock in 1964. Over the years , some white wash and patch repair was done and trade and commerce commenced.india was always defensive in its approach having tasted chineseactions already once. Cultural excahnge also took place. But all these activities were held while behind the scene, Chinese leaders abetted Pakistan in their anti Indian activities. It is fully known that China helped Pak to build the bomb and also built the roads in the most sensitive area . In Asia, Pakistan is supported by powers like USA and China to stand against Indian infuence and rise to status of local super power. in fact no adjacent country of India is favourable to us. Although we appear to have some good relations, it is well known that countries like , Bhutan, Lanka, Mauritius and distant but yet close Malyasia, Bangladesh and Burma are not friendly to us. Thus China;s attitude towards India is nothing new. China will always keep its border issue open and would stake claim to all NEFA states including Assam. Sikkim has merged with India much to the unhappines of China. India failed to contain Nepal going into communist umbrella and soon it woul be a proxy to China. This has been a permanent damage to our security. We allowed Hindu kingdom to go red. It is a matter of time before Chinese missiles with war heads land up in Nepal and this is their ultimate aim. Are we capable of doing a kennedy against CUBA during the times of Russian premier Kruschev in sixties? we allowed Tibet to escape from our influence during Nehrus time. Can we support a Tibetan militancy andwe are Surely not. We are weak kneed and not assertive, We are still scared of Chinese supremacy. Recently a very senor serving defence officer even said that Indian military is not capable of defeating Chinese army. There is an inner weakness of being militarily inferior.This is the main reason for swallowing Chinese actions with a mere smile and low key actions that we have seen today. Present one reflcts the same. Probably we have to live with it with the present leadership. We require people like Netaji Subhas chandra Bose to tackle china and Pakistan firmly than the present dilly dallying lack lustre leaders.

Dr K Prabhakar Rao