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| India-Pakistan |
| ‘Stop China before it’s too late’ |
| 2007-06-04 |
| BJP MP Kiren Rijiju alleges Chinese intrusion in Arunachal Pradesh A recent claim by BJP MP Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal Pradesh that China is consistently intruding into border areas of the state has rocked the nation. His claim holds critical significance in view of last monthÂ’s tenth round of Sino-Indian border talks and Cabinet Minister of External Affairs Pranab MukherjeeÂ’s 10 May statement in the Rajya Sabha that India and China are exploring the framework for a final package settlement covering all aspects of the boundary issue. The India-China border dispute has lingered since the 1962 Sino-Indian War. During the war, China seized Aksai Chin and overran Arunachal Pradesh. Later, China vacated Arunachal Pradesh to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), which approximates the McMahon Line. Running through east India and signed by British India and Tibet in 1914, the line forms the border between India and China, but China does not accept it. In 1986-87, Indian and Chinese forces clashed in the Sumdorong Chu Valley in Arunachal Pradesh but in next few years, relations warmed. On 7 September 1993, both nations signed an accord to control tensions on their border and decided to accept the LAC. In 1996, China and India specified the LAC and established confidence building measures (CBMs) along the frontier. In August 1997, both sides signed the CBM agreement. Since 2003, India and China have appointed special representatives to hold border talks. They have met ten times to discuss the border issue, roughly thrice a year. India accuses China of illegally occupying 43,180 square kilometres and China says India possesses ninety thousand square kilometres of Chinese territory, including Arunachal Pradesh in its entirety. BJP MP Kiren Rijiju has made startling revelations, which may reignite border tensions between the two countries, although the Central and state governments have rejected his claims. He discussed the situation with NewsInsight Correspondent Preeti Sharma. Excerpts from the interview: You have claimed in Parliament that China is intruding into various areas of Arunachal Pradesh. What are the grounds for this allegation? (The Chinese intrusions are in) my constituency and I have surveyed the area. China has intruded twenty kilometres into Indian territory. Such areas as Asapila, Lungar and Majak camps in the Taksin area have been recently captured by the Chinese. Most of the McMahon Line is already under Chinese control. Kibitu and Bumla are two points where India and China regularly exchange flags. But the other areas are largely inaccessible and thus the Chinese troops make an easy way into them. The villagers of these areas are selling their domestic animals as the grazing lands have been taken away by the Chinese army (the PLA). I cannot be accurate about the date when the Chinese intrusion started. It has been a slow and creeping activity going on for a long time. So why is the state government denying the matter? The Arunachal Pradesh chief minister says that intelligence agencies have no such information. The state government is not actually denying the matter but is saying that there is no formal intrusion of Chinese troops in that area. However, they accept that some areas are disputed. This is my whole point. The so-called disputed areas are now being taken over by the Chinese. Army authorities also support my statement but I am not in a position to disclose anything. The state government does not want to accept the situation publicly also because in the Centre, the UPA government is backed by the (Left, including the Communist Party of India-Marxist), which has shown its pro-China stand on several occasions before. Therefore, to not to offend the Communists, the government does not want to address the border issue with China. What is your demand from the government? I have challenged the government authorities to come with me to the LAC and see the situation there. India should have solid infrastructure in the border areas to mobilize our troops and increase our dominance. While China has established huge infrastructure on the Arunachal border, including two lane roads and helipads and their military is also heavily deployed, on the Indian side, the area is inaccessible and poorly developed. The Indian government is afraid of the Chinese, which is why they have not been able to take counter measures. In November last year, when the Chinese ambassador commented on their Arunachal Pradesh claim, the Indian government could not (reprove) him and the matter passed off without serious discussion. The whole nation is interested in the Kashmir Valley where the problematic area from Anantanag to Baramula is smaller than Arunachal Pradesh. The people of Arunachal Pradesh are patriotic and want to remain with India. It is a rich state with abundant natural resources, but China is making things difficult there. The local people are sad because they are losing their land to China. My whole purpose is to wake up the Government of India about the need to protect Arunachal Pradesh before it is too late. What is your next course of action? I am having discussions with my party. We have raised the matter in Parliament to make everyone aware of the border realities. Government has to (devise a) strategy to (manage) the whole issue. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #4 Easier and cheaper to send them overseas (middle east etc) as cheap labor for construction and other manual jobs. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-06-04 19:35 |
| #3 Again I wonder if China and India are going to migrate into a demographic war. That is, a low tech war involving draftees and small arms, whose purpose in the final analysis is to kill off excess young males. It is hard to picture as many as 30-50 million young men with no future, no prospect for marriage or to have employment. But the amount of destruction and devastation they can create if not controlled, could be worse than the plagues of Egypt. Both sides could decide to keep their professional armies in reserve, and create a conflict in empty and hostile terrain, with battle lines shifting back and forth no more than 50 miles in either direction. Using only rifles, machine guns and artillery. And this only assumes a slaughter to reduce excess males without females. If they agree to eliminate vast numbers of peasants, they might wish to cull 300 Million to a half-billion men. At that scale, it would take a choreography of the two nations leaders to keep it from getting out of control. They might even choose to use biological weapons limited to their armies. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-04 18:57 |
| #2 It has been alleged that the former Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, known for his anti-US stance, who lost his job over the UN Iraqi Oil for Food scandal (Volcker report), raised money for China during his student days, even after India had been attacked. When Japanese companies expressed interest in increasing their manufacturing in India, the Indian Communist leaders made a trip to Beijing. On their return, the Japanese factories all over India were hit by labor unrest. The Congress Party has outsourced foreign policy to their regional allies. The Communists in Bengal run the Nepal policy, which means accomodating their terrorist Maoist brethren. The Tamil DMK runs the Sri Lanka policy which means the Tigers have free reign. The local Punjab Congress supports a farcical peace process with Pakistan. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-06-04 18:28 |
| #1 this is interesting, the marxist indians should be shown the door post haste, all these loons work for the international. if a more communist entity is involved, the most communist entity is supported by the least....like a man law. |
| Posted by: Spiny Gl 2511 2007-06-04 18:00 |