India no longer considers Pakistan ‘principal enemy’

[Awesome]

In in context to the post you are replying to.

I sure would hang around with you while you sharpen your knife. I am a black belt and would just like to show you a trick or two!

Why are you not in Kashmir with the Junoon chaps?

Sir Ji, aap ke liye toh Bazooka se kam nahi chalay gi.

I hope Junoon makes it out in one piece. Srinagar's not really a place for people who have already managed to piss off half of the world...

 

[Flintlock]

Of course it does. If you know I'm sitting and sharpening a knife to stab you, would you still hang around with me?

That's a very flawed argument.

India wants to improve relations with Pakistan and China. However, that doesn't mean that it should stop upgrading its defence capabilities and hope that the rest of the world will follow suit.

As they say, wear a big smile, and carry a bigger stick.

 

[Awesome]

That's a very flawed argument.

India wants to improve relations with Pakistan and China. However, that doesn't mean that it should stop upgrading its defence capabilities and hope that the rest of the world will follow suit.

As they say, wear a big smile, and carry a bigger stick.

Yes I KNOW!

But one has to keep up perceptions. India is aware of that.

 

[IceCold]

That's a very flawed argument.

India wants to improve relations with Pakistan and China. However, that doesn't mean that it should stop upgrading its defence capabilities and hope that the rest of the world will follow suit.

As they say, wear a big smile, and carry a bigger stick.

Certainly stealth however i would counter your arguement by saying that why it bothers india then if pakistan upgrades its capabilities, simply keeping your logic in mind about a big smile and carry a bigger stick, Pakistan too wants good relations with india however that doesnt mean we should stop upgrading our military capabilities. India shouldnt be bothered at all then.

 

[Spring Onion]

For quite some time, Pakistan was not taken to be the Principal adversary.

It was also not officially mentioned as to who was the real threat, till George Fernandez, the then Defence Minister, openly declared that it was China.

yeh but he did only after smelling that US was also of the same opinion

 

[Goodperson]

yeh but he did only after smelling that US was also of the same opinion

No it is not due to US, India considers china as adversary since 1962 and its arms supplies to Pakistan especially M-11 the missiles.
However I would expect you to give your first hand impression after your recent India visit.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Sir Ji, aap ke liye toh Bazooka se kam nahi chalay gi.

I hope Junoon makes it out in one piece. Srinagar's not really a place for people who have already managed to piss off half of the world...

Junoon pissed off half the world?

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

yeh but he did only after smelling that US was also of the same opinion

As a journalist, you appear to know little of the background that you write of. Dangerous since you will be informing incorrectly.

He is a member of the Socialist International.

George Fernandez is a Socialist and he dislikes the US intensely. He banned Coca Cola in the first UF govt. He has always gone hammer and tongs against the US.

You must do your homework.

 

[Spring Onion]

No it is not due to US, India considers china as adversary since 1962 and its arms supplies to Pakistan especially M-11 the missiles.
However I would expect you to give your first hand impression after your recent India visit.

I dint meet him otherwise i would have

But i can give the first hand impression about "India Shining" misperception that too from the heads of the leading newspapers of India.

 

[Spring Onion]

You must do your homework.

yes i think you are right.

 

[gpit]

Of course it does. If you know I'm sitting and sharpening a knife to stab you, would you still hang around with me?

Well said.

Only the insane would spend money on cannon, not on butter, even there is no enemy or potential victime.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Indeed, the insane would do.

The world is full of insanity!

 

[Spring Onion]

Indeed, the insane would do.

The world is full of insanity!

NO you and me are also living here

 

[Goodperson]

I dint meet him otherwise i would have

But i can give the first hand impression about "India Shining" misperception that too from the heads of the leading newspapers of India.

Oh! Did I miss something ? India shining was slogan of BJP 4 yers back and it lost in the center so how could it be a misperception?
anyway one cannot change bias of some.

 

[gpit]

Do you know the first thing about Indian foreign policy?

"IN his May 1998 letter to president Clinton the Indian prime minister A B Vajpayee justified his government’s nuclear tests by citing China’s ‘armed aggression against India in 1962’ and the unresolved Sino-Indian border dispute..."

-From <Sino-Indian Border Dispute Reconsidered>, by Neville Maxwell, 1999.

Apparently, Indian nuclear is aiming at China for ‘armed aggression against India in 1962’ and the unresolved Sino-Indian border dispute.

Maxwell summarizes in his article: "The Nehru government sought to decide for itself where India’s borders with China should lie and then impose the alignments it had chosen on Beijing, refusing to negotiate them. That meant that unless Beijing surrendered to India’s territorial claims to Aksai Chin and areas north of the McMahon Line conflict was inevitable. China’s military action in 1962 was reactive and pre-emptive, and that India suffered ‘unprovoked aggression’ is a self-serving myth. That there has been no settlement of the Sino-Indian borders is the consequence of Nehru’s policies, to which successor governments, except Narasimha Rao’s, have strictly adhered."

I don't see any reason why Maxwell should bias towards communist China.