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The negative comments in Chinese media on the Indo-US nuclear deal and the limited choice available to the Indian Government between its own survival and that of the deal echoes similar threats issued by Left leaders AB Bardhan, D Raja, Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury. If the Chinese are so uptight about India signing 123 Agreement with the US, why did they not refrain from doing so in 1985? If the deal was so regressive, they had thirteen years to call it off before it was ratified by the US in 1998. Since China chose to go ahead with the deal as it considered it in their national interests to do so, their objections to India entering into similar nuclear arrangement with US, to further its own national interests, sounds hollow and inexplicable. Is it because certain objectionable clauses in the Sino-US 123 Nuclear Deal are absent in the deal struck by India?
China has accused the US of disregarding international opinion to use India as a "tool for its global strategic pattern" by supporting New Delhi's nuclear ambitions. Did it occur to the Chinese that India was emulating their own example? Did the Chinese also think that the US was using China as a tool way back in 1985, and let it pass? India has always been appreciative of the rapid economic progress made by China; unfortunately the gesture has not been returned by the Chinese. India too has a success story of its own to tell. What’s more, the whole world is listening! Maybe that is bothering the Chinese more than the Indo-US Nuclear Deal itself.
The Left parties need to be congratulated in finding willing partners in their condemnation of Manmohan Singh Govt. They also need to be educated on the fact that what is good for their communist friends cannot be so bad for their fellow countrymen. Finally, now that the Americans have clearly stated that India can do as it pleases as far as nuclear testing goes, the comrades still have the choice between honeymoon and divorce.
The negative comments in Chinese media on the Indo-US nuclear deal and the limited choice available to the Indian Government between its own survival and that of the deal echoes similar threats issued by Left leaders AB Bardhan, D Raja, Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury. If the Chinese are so uptight about India signing 123 Agreement with the US, why did they not refrain from doing so in 1985? If the deal was so regressive, they had thirteen years to call it off before it was ratified by the US in 1998. Since China chose to go ahead with the deal as it considered it in their national interests to do so, their objections to India entering into similar nuclear arrangement with US, to further its own national interests, sounds hollow and inexplicable. Is it because certain objectionable clauses in the Sino-US 123 Nuclear Deal are absent in the deal struck by India?
China has accused the US of disregarding international opinion to use India as a "tool for its global strategic pattern" by supporting New Delhi's nuclear ambitions. Did it occur to the Chinese that India was emulating their own example? Did the Chinese also think that the US was using China as a tool way back in 1985, and let it pass? India has always been appreciative of the rapid economic progress made by China; unfortunately the gesture has not been returned by the Chinese. India too has a success story of its own to tell. What’s more, the whole world is listening! Maybe that is bothering the Chinese more than the Indo-US Nuclear Deal itself.
The Left parties need to be congratulated in finding willing partners in their condemnation of Manmohan Singh Govt. They also need to be educated on the fact that what is good for their communist friends cannot be so bad for their fellow countrymen. Finally, now that the Americans have clearly stated that India can do as it pleases as far as nuclear testing goes, the comrades still have the choice between honeymoon and divorce.
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It is only natural for any country including China to look out for its own strategic interests. One should not expect China to be happy.
I should mention here that I have interacted with many Chinese people and have encountered any hatered or dislike for India from them. On the contrary, they are quite similar to Indians in many respects.
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