Re: BOUNDARY
by piri on Nov 11, 2014 02:30 PM
That is a foolish thought, is it not ?
The Chinese can similarly think that India should hand over the entire state of Arunachal Pradesh to them due to their historical links with the place, cant they ?
Re: Re: BOUNDARY
by milind b on Nov 11, 2014 02:41 PM
But Tibet was never a part of China , it was forcebly annexed by China. Kailash Mansarovar is historically the most holiest place for Hindus and India has a right on this place more than anyone else in this world.
Mac-Mohan line is a line on map, practically no boundry, China claims old silk route is the border, but China and India both are to accept ground reality of today and resolve this dispute, instead of claiming impractical issues.
never mentions perhaps the most significant feature that stands out in any true comparison of capabilities between China and India.
And this is the will shown by the two countries to fight big time corruption!
Arpi bleats in shrill fashion that China is spending billions of dollars to develop infrastructure in Tibet.
By contrast, Arpi moans that Indian tax payers will have to bear an additonal burden of several lakh crores of rupees in order to counter China.
Arpi ought to have talked about the huge contrast between the ease at which China can spare billions of dollars for Tibet's infrastructural development and how India will compromise its fiscal deficit immensely more by raising its Mountain corps.
In other words, the fact that India is in a very very unsustainable scale of competition with China is never mentioned by the likes of writers such as Arpi.
Now, the subject of how China and India compare in terms of controlling corruption (which is the biggest leakage of financial muscle for any nation) will need pages and pages of enumeration, data and arguments.
But such labour can be saved and the argument brought down to just one line if how the Indian govt. has pampered gigantic thieves such as Mukesh Ambani while the Chinese have been hounding and purging such parasites in their market economy is mentioned!
In terms of feeding parasites such as Ambani, there has been no difference at all between the BJP led NDA and the Congress!
One decision of the Indian govt. in the matter of how it allows free booters such as Mukesh Ambani rip off state and natural resources - the decision to award a world record well head price of 8.4 USD per MMBTU for the gas extracted from the KG D6 block (now brought down to 5.61 USD per MMBTU but with a caveat that "technologically challenging fields MAY be awarded a higher price" - alone is enough to illustrate why India will never be able to compete in any meaningful manner with China!
The latest Corrption Perception Index rankings (published by Transparency International) place China at 61st rank among all countries while India, despite being an alleged vibrant democracy and not autocratically governed as China is widely ridiculed to be, is placed a far more miserable 98th !!
When India mentions that Arunachal is an integral part of India,then why do we discuss border issues pertaing to it with China. It means that the world recognises it as a disputed territory. China never discusses Tibet with any country, India too should have the same attitude.
