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How China plans to split India and liberate West Bengal
Almost coinciding with the 13th round of Sino-Indian border talks (New Delhi, August 7-8, 2009), an article (in Chinese language) has appeared in China captioned `If China takes a little action, the so-called Great Indian Federation can be broken up` ( Zhong Guo Zhan Lue Gang, www.iiss.cn , Chinese,8 August 2009).
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Interestingly, it has been reproduced in several other strategic and military websites of the country and by all means, targets the domestic audience. The authoritative host site is located in Beijing and is the new edition of one, which so far represented the China International Institute for Strategic Studies (http://www.chinaiiss.org/).
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Claiming that Beijing`s `China-Centric` Asian strategy provides for splitting India, the writer of the article, Zhan Lue (strategy), has found that New Delhi`s corresponding `India-Centric` policy in Asia, is in reality a `Hindustan centric` one. Stating that on the other hand `local centers` exist in several of the country`s provinces (excepting for the U.P and certain Northern regions), Zhan Lue has felt that in the face of such local characteristics, the `so-called` Indian nation cannot be considered as one having existed in history.
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According to the article, if India today relies on any thing for unity, it is the Hindu religion. The partition of the country was based on religion. Stating that today nation states are the main current in the world, it has said that India could only be termed now as a `Hindu Religious state`. Adding that Hinduism is a decadent religion as it allows caste exploitation and is unhelpful to the country's modernization, it described the Indian government as one in a dilemma with regard to eradication of the caste system as it realizes that the process to do away with castes may shake the foundation of the consciousness of the Indian nation.
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The writer has argued that in view of the above, China in its own interest and the progress of whole Asia, should join forces with different nationalities like Assamese, Tamils, and Kashmiris and support the latter in establishing independent nation-states of their own, out of India. In particular, the ULFA in Assam, a territory neighboring China, can be helped by China so that Assam realizes its national independence.
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The article has also felt that for Bangladesh, the biggest threat is from India, which wants to develop a great Indian Federation extending from Afghanistan to Myanmar. India is also targeting China with support to Vietnam`s efforts to occupy Nansha (Spratly) group of islands in South China Sea. Hence the need for China`s consolidation of its alliance with Bangladesh, a country with which the US and Japan are also improving their relations to counter China. It has pointed out that China can give political support to Bangladesh enabling the latter to encourage ethnic Bengalis in India to get rid of Indian control and unite with Bangladesh as one Bengali nation; if the same is not possible, creation of at least another free Bengali nation state as a friendly neighbour of Bangladesh, would be desirable, for the purpose of weakening India`s expansion and threat aimed at forming a 'unified South Asia'.
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The punch line in the article has been that to split India, China can bring into its fold countries like Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, support ULFA in attaining its goal for Assam's independence, back aspirations of Indian nationalities like Tamils and Nagas, encourage Bangladesh to give a push to the independence of West Bengal and lastly recover the 90,000 sq km. territory in Southern Tibet.Wishing for India`s break-up into 20-30 nation-states like in Europe, the article has concluded by saying that if the consciousness of nationalities in India could be aroused, social reforms in South Asia can be achieved, the caste system can be eradicated and the region can march along the road of prosperity.
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The Chinese article in question will certainly outrage readers in India. Its suggestion that China can follow a strategy to dismember India, a country always with a tradition of unity in diversity, is atrocious, to say the least. The write-up could not have been published without the permission of the Chinese authorities, but it is sure that Beijing will wash its hands out of this if the matter is taken up with it by New Delhi.
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It has generally been seen that China is speaking in two voices -- its diplomatic interlocutors have always shown understanding during their dealings with their Indian counterparts, but its selected media is pouring venom on India in their reporting. Which one to believe is a question confronting the public opinion and even policy makers in India. In any case, an approach of panic towards such outbursts will be a mistake, but also ignoring them will prove to be costly for India.
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An article has also appeared in China captioned ‘If China takes a little action, the so-called Great Indian Federation can be broken up’ says that the ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) in Assam, a territory neighbouring China, can be helped by China so that Assam realises its national independence, rediff news reports.
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The article has also felt that for Bangladesh, the biggest threat is from India, which wants to develop a great Indian Federation extending from Afghanistan to Myanmar. India is also targeting China with support to Vietnam’s efforts to occupy Nansha (Spratly) group of islands in South China Sea. Hence the need for China’s consolidation of its alliance with Bangladesh.
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It has pointed out that China can give political support to Bangladesh enabling the latter to encourage ethnic Bengalis in the State of West Bengal in India to get rid of Indian control through a complete liberation and unite with Bangladesh as one Bengali nation; if the same is not possible, creation of at least another free Bengali nation state as a friendly neighbour of Bangladesh, would be desirable, for the purpose of weakening India’s expansion and threat aimed at forming a ‘unified South Asia’.
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Interesting enough to apprehend the reluctance about such an alarming threat to the Indian Sovereignty including the ethnicity of West Bengalis, the rulling power CPIM in WB did not spend a single word as a protest. Though the CPI in New Delhi has briefed it averseness to this point. Perhaps the Naxalites and Maoists both in India will take a turn from this situation, the Defence Experts and Political Analysts in India retaliated vehemently. The critical Chinese design of fomenting Islamic Fundamentalism and supporting a proxy war waged by the Naxalites-Maoists outfits in India is now being cross-sectioned by many Indian authorities to save the situation here.
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As per Bharat Verma, Editor, Indian Defence Review and the author of the book Faultlines. 'Nervous China may attack India by 2012'(http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jhmqlGgeaia) and Verma opined that " New Delhi's stance should modify, not to aggression, but to a firm assertion in statecraft. The state must also exclusively retain the capability of intervention by use of force internally as well as externally. If it permits the non-state actors to develop this capability in competition, then the state will wither away. On the contrary, the state machinery should ensure a fast- paced development in the Red Corridor even it if has to hold Maoists' hostage at gunpoint. Only the state's firm and just intervention will dissolve the Maoist movement.
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Keeping in view the imminent threat posed by China, the quickest way to swing out of pacifism to state of assertion is by injecting military thinking in the civil administration to build the sinews. That will enormously increase the deliverables on ground-from Lalgarh to Tawang. "
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(Based upon the article written by D.S.Rajan spent almost 40 years as a China/East Asia specialist with the government of India before retiring in 2002 as Director China/East Asia. Fluent in both Chinese and Japanese, he is now Director of the Chennai Centre for China Studies.)
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Posted by Sambuddha Gupta,
Spotlight Media Group.
Almost coinciding with the 13th round of Sino-Indian border talks (New Delhi, August 7-8, 2009), an article (in Chinese language) has appeared in China captioned `If China takes a little action, the so-called Great Indian Federation can be broken up` ( Zhong Guo Zhan Lue Gang, www.iiss.cn , Chinese,8 August 2009).
..
Interestingly, it has been reproduced in several other strategic and military websites of the country and by all means, targets the domestic audience. The authoritative host site is located in Beijing and is the new edition of one, which so far represented the China International Institute for Strategic Studies (http://www.chinaiiss.org/).
..
Claiming that Beijing`s `China-Centric` Asian strategy provides for splitting India, the writer of the article, Zhan Lue (strategy), has found that New Delhi`s corresponding `India-Centric` policy in Asia, is in reality a `Hindustan centric` one. Stating that on the other hand `local centers` exist in several of the country`s provinces (excepting for the U.P and certain Northern regions), Zhan Lue has felt that in the face of such local characteristics, the `so-called` Indian nation cannot be considered as one having existed in history.
..
According to the article, if India today relies on any thing for unity, it is the Hindu religion. The partition of the country was based on religion. Stating that today nation states are the main current in the world, it has said that India could only be termed now as a `Hindu Religious state`. Adding that Hinduism is a decadent religion as it allows caste exploitation and is unhelpful to the country's modernization, it described the Indian government as one in a dilemma with regard to eradication of the caste system as it realizes that the process to do away with castes may shake the foundation of the consciousness of the Indian nation.
..
The writer has argued that in view of the above, China in its own interest and the progress of whole Asia, should join forces with different nationalities like Assamese, Tamils, and Kashmiris and support the latter in establishing independent nation-states of their own, out of India. In particular, the ULFA in Assam, a territory neighboring China, can be helped by China so that Assam realizes its national independence.
..
The article has also felt that for Bangladesh, the biggest threat is from India, which wants to develop a great Indian Federation extending from Afghanistan to Myanmar. India is also targeting China with support to Vietnam`s efforts to occupy Nansha (Spratly) group of islands in South China Sea. Hence the need for China`s consolidation of its alliance with Bangladesh, a country with which the US and Japan are also improving their relations to counter China. It has pointed out that China can give political support to Bangladesh enabling the latter to encourage ethnic Bengalis in India to get rid of Indian control and unite with Bangladesh as one Bengali nation; if the same is not possible, creation of at least another free Bengali nation state as a friendly neighbour of Bangladesh, would be desirable, for the purpose of weakening India`s expansion and threat aimed at forming a 'unified South Asia'.
..
The punch line in the article has been that to split India, China can bring into its fold countries like Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, support ULFA in attaining its goal for Assam's independence, back aspirations of Indian nationalities like Tamils and Nagas, encourage Bangladesh to give a push to the independence of West Bengal and lastly recover the 90,000 sq km. territory in Southern Tibet.Wishing for India`s break-up into 20-30 nation-states like in Europe, the article has concluded by saying that if the consciousness of nationalities in India could be aroused, social reforms in South Asia can be achieved, the caste system can be eradicated and the region can march along the road of prosperity.
..
The Chinese article in question will certainly outrage readers in India. Its suggestion that China can follow a strategy to dismember India, a country always with a tradition of unity in diversity, is atrocious, to say the least. The write-up could not have been published without the permission of the Chinese authorities, but it is sure that Beijing will wash its hands out of this if the matter is taken up with it by New Delhi.
..
It has generally been seen that China is speaking in two voices -- its diplomatic interlocutors have always shown understanding during their dealings with their Indian counterparts, but its selected media is pouring venom on India in their reporting. Which one to believe is a question confronting the public opinion and even policy makers in India. In any case, an approach of panic towards such outbursts will be a mistake, but also ignoring them will prove to be costly for India.
.. ..
An article has also appeared in China captioned ‘If China takes a little action, the so-called Great Indian Federation can be broken up’ says that the ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) in Assam, a territory neighbouring China, can be helped by China so that Assam realises its national independence, rediff news reports.
..
The article has also felt that for Bangladesh, the biggest threat is from India, which wants to develop a great Indian Federation extending from Afghanistan to Myanmar. India is also targeting China with support to Vietnam’s efforts to occupy Nansha (Spratly) group of islands in South China Sea. Hence the need for China’s consolidation of its alliance with Bangladesh.
..
It has pointed out that China can give political support to Bangladesh enabling the latter to encourage ethnic Bengalis in the State of West Bengal in India to get rid of Indian control through a complete liberation and unite with Bangladesh as one Bengali nation; if the same is not possible, creation of at least another free Bengali nation state as a friendly neighbour of Bangladesh, would be desirable, for the purpose of weakening India’s expansion and threat aimed at forming a ‘unified South Asia’.
..
Interesting enough to apprehend the reluctance about such an alarming threat to the Indian Sovereignty including the ethnicity of West Bengalis, the rulling power CPIM in WB did not spend a single word as a protest. Though the CPI in New Delhi has briefed it averseness to this point. Perhaps the Naxalites and Maoists both in India will take a turn from this situation, the Defence Experts and Political Analysts in India retaliated vehemently. The critical Chinese design of fomenting Islamic Fundamentalism and supporting a proxy war waged by the Naxalites-Maoists outfits in India is now being cross-sectioned by many Indian authorities to save the situation here.
..
As per Bharat Verma, Editor, Indian Defence Review and the author of the book Faultlines. 'Nervous China may attack India by 2012'(http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jhmqlGgeaia) and Verma opined that " New Delhi's stance should modify, not to aggression, but to a firm assertion in statecraft. The state must also exclusively retain the capability of intervention by use of force internally as well as externally. If it permits the non-state actors to develop this capability in competition, then the state will wither away. On the contrary, the state machinery should ensure a fast- paced development in the Red Corridor even it if has to hold Maoists' hostage at gunpoint. Only the state's firm and just intervention will dissolve the Maoist movement.
..
Keeping in view the imminent threat posed by China, the quickest way to swing out of pacifism to state of assertion is by injecting military thinking in the civil administration to build the sinews. That will enormously increase the deliverables on ground-from Lalgarh to Tawang. "
..
(Based upon the article written by D.S.Rajan spent almost 40 years as a China/East Asia specialist with the government of India before retiring in 2002 as Director China/East Asia. Fluent in both Chinese and Japanese, he is now Director of the Chennai Centre for China Studies.)
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Posted by Sambuddha Gupta,
Spotlight Media Group.
