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White Paper, Red China

Even as the world was riveted by Barack Obama’s coronation and first days in office, the Chinese government released its defence white paper for 2008. This is the sixth such policy document from Beijing, the last one having come out in 2006, and an attempt by the Chinese government to assuage t ....Read more

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Indians should relaxBy: Frank of Seattle | Sunday , 8 Feb '09 9:40:33 AM Reply | Forward Indians should relax a little. China has enough people. They do not want to control another billion.

Only Israel and Japan can help IndiaBy: Raman | Wednesday , 4 Feb '09 1:16:14 AM Reply | Forward Biggest weapon China is having is Pakistan (indirect-muslim population) outside India and Communist traitors within India. As people are voting for coalitions which need pro-muslim and communist supports to sustain Govts., India can never answer international challenges to its full inherent capacity. Pseudo-secularism and Indian communism never allow India to challenge Islamic terrorism or Chinese hegemony. And nationalist population of India just watch helplessly the decay of all promises India holds. West is not a friend of India either, as it views India as Hindu-India, and not one of them! It is clear from the stuff western funded Indian media churns out every day to show India/Hindus in bad light with lamest excuses. Only true friends could be Japan and Israel. But until India accepts real problems, they can't help it fighting Islamic terrorism or China hegemony.

China's White PaperBy: Vijay Vikram | Monday , 2 Feb '09 18:27:36 PM Reply | Forward Timely intervention by Harsh Pant. I was afraid that Indian strategic discourse had slunck back to its Subcontinental comfort zone. China presents India with a comprehensive strategic challenge. The strategic threats emenating from Pakistan are short-term and obvious but are essentially secondary to those presented by China.Thanks to our inferior economic resources it's unlikely that we'll be able to outspend the Chinese, but it would help if we start evolving an actual security strategy. I suppose this is the price we pay for our messy democracy.

STRATEGIC PACT WITH USBy: Guru | Monday , 2 Feb '09 17:00:16 PM Reply | Forward Time has come for India to sign a strategic pact with the US for countering the Chinese threat. This should include extension of the US missile shield over India, hosting US nuclear missiles in India and frequesnt joint military exercise alond the Chinese border. India should form a military alliance with countries such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam including the US to counter long term threat from China in this region. INDIA AND THE US HAS TO CONTAIN THE EXPANSIONIST CHINA TOGETHER TO MAKE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE IN THE FUTURE.

Indian responseBy: oldindian | Monday , 2 Feb '09 13:57:49 PM Reply | Forward Before addressing the issue of india's defence preparedness, questions need to be asked regarding india's awareness, forget assessment, of threats and challenges around it. And wheter its response is an extension of its muddied definition of secularism - panch sheel, non alignment and all the crap of 60's - that is used as reference point by the thinking bureaucrats and politicians to define, assess threats, imbalances, challenges, opportunity facing the country. Its inability to establish a footprint in afghanistan 8 years after fall of taliban and failure to leverage that against pakistan is mere indication of it. And the way india fails to respond to undermining of its positiion by small time neighbor nepal just strengthen the notion that india has wrapped itself in puzzles and knots when addressing foreign policy. In the abscence of that, shaking hands with U S president is not going to help us much.