Strategic relationship between China and India

[througheye]

I watched a talk about the South Sea Issue and China-India relationship given by a professor in National University of Singapore. He has very good relations with many high-level officials of China, US and India. He is also a friend of Dalai Lama. He may be capable influence the strategic policy of China. This talk was given about one year ago.

The talk was in a very casual way. It's difficult to give a summary. I only list some interesting points given by the professor:

1) The rise of China will totally change the world. The current balance (military balance and economic balance) in the west Pacific area are being changed. US do not have the desire or money to fight with China for other small countries, like Japan or Philippine. US need China to cooperate in many fields.

2) Only three countries, US, China and India, have the power and potential to influence the Asia-Pacific in the future. Japan is only a second-level country, who can only relay on US.

3) The time is on China's side. China is not hurry to solve the South Sea island issue and China-India border disputes.

4) China and India have the same goal: modernization. The two countries need to stand together to change the western-lead international orders. China and India need to tie up to change current currency system. China and India need to build strategic relationship as they have the same history (colonized or half-colonized memory) and same interests.

5) The leaders of China and India have very clear and smart views of two countries' future. The cooperation between two countries will benefit each other. The border dispute will last for a very long period. Both governments are now devoting to manage the dispute rather than to solve the dispute.

6) Some media in China (more particular, Global Time) and India are nationalistic and short-view. They made a lot of noise, which may hurt two countries in the future.

7) The best thing that US and other western countries want to see is the war between India and China. If that happen, western countries can rule the world for another 200 years.

 

[Tractor]

First you should be clear that India is a western country itself racially and culturally beside that it had been colonized.

 

[througheye]

First you should be clear that India is a western country itself racially and culturally beside that it had been colonized.

India wants to be a western country. However, she can not join their elite club. The western countries will not invite her in playing the game. India now is only their chessman. If India want to change the situation, she have to tie up with China.

 

[Pulsar]

I think there is a lot of needless India-China baiting on this forum, far removed from the reality on ground. The media on both sides especially India need to tone down the rhetoric. The ideal situation would be for India, China and Russia to forge a strategic economic and military relationship to form the second pole to counter the USA and the West who who are hell bent on establishing a New World Order on their terms.

A few years ago, the foreign ministers of these three countries met in Moscow to discuss this issue. What came of it, is not in public domain. Perhaps there is more than meets the eye here? For example, Sino-Indian trade has seen enormous rise which now stands at $70 billion, slated to reach $100 billion by 2015 and $500 billion by 2020.

Now if only these three countries can get their act together, the US would stop trying to bully the world and look for excuses to start conflicts to fund their enormous military-industrial complex on which the US economy depends.