Post by celebi on Apr 7, 2011 7:34:52 GMT -5
When I spoke to my dad today, he said that there are lots of talk on TV all over about looming China's invasion.
I read this article today - Are these fears substantiated? What do you expect the outcome to be?
www.dawn.com/2011/04/07/indias-china-fears.html
I read this article today - Are these fears substantiated? What do you expect the outcome to be?
www.dawn.com/2011/04/07/indias-china-fears.html
India`s conclusions about China are driven by a variety of factors. One is competition over natural resources in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), at a time when securing them has become a core national interest for both nations due to rocketing energy demand.
Some Indian strategic thinkers describe the Bay of Bengal as a not-so-distant future source of Sino-Indian conflict. Here, buttressed by its burgeoning naval prowess, China is developing energy assets not far from India`s eastern shores.
Border tensions also loom large. They revolve around strategically vital territory — Arunachal Pradesh (AP) is an unusually water-rich state in an increasingly parched region — and Indian strategists insist that war is not out of the question. Tensions are further stoked by water-starved India`s contention that Beijing is constructing dams that will prevent waters of the Brahmaputra River from flowing downstream into AP.
Yet India most fears an aggressive Chinese policy of encirclement. Indians watch nervously as China wages occasional incursions into AP, initiates naval base-building and infrastructure-development activities across South and Southeast Asia and the IOR, and builds nuclear power plants and infrastructure projects in Pakistan.
Some Indian strategic thinkers describe the Bay of Bengal as a not-so-distant future source of Sino-Indian conflict. Here, buttressed by its burgeoning naval prowess, China is developing energy assets not far from India`s eastern shores.
Border tensions also loom large. They revolve around strategically vital territory — Arunachal Pradesh (AP) is an unusually water-rich state in an increasingly parched region — and Indian strategists insist that war is not out of the question. Tensions are further stoked by water-starved India`s contention that Beijing is constructing dams that will prevent waters of the Brahmaputra River from flowing downstream into AP.
Yet India most fears an aggressive Chinese policy of encirclement. Indians watch nervously as China wages occasional incursions into AP, initiates naval base-building and infrastructure-development activities across South and Southeast Asia and the IOR, and builds nuclear power plants and infrastructure projects in Pakistan.
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