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2009-06-12 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by john frum 2009-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Is the disputed border between India and China or India and Tibet - I've lost track of Tibet's borders.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-06-12 09:03|| 2009-06-12 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 This is Chinese propaganda. It stinks of Chinese fear that India has far surpassed China.

If the USA is smart, it will build an alliance with India.

Posted by Lagom 2009-06-12 09:42|| 2009-06-12 09:42|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought Tibet was a permanent and inalienable part of China.

And besides, it's not like Tibet's even at the outside border of China, that's Nepal and Arunachal Pradesh, currently occupied by foreign troops _from_ India. (suprise!).

If I remember my Pradeshes correctly. I don't know if they consider Andhra Pradesh a permanent and inalienable part of historic China, for instance.

YET.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-06-12 09:50|| 2009-06-12 09:50|| Front Page Top

#4 And no, I don't think either Pradeshes are really Chinese. But the Chinese think so for one of them, and, as the old saying goes "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is subject to negotiation." Or warfare.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-06-12 09:52|| 2009-06-12 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 The Chinese have taken to calling Arunachal Pradesh as "Lower Tibet"

Posted by john frum 2009-06-12 09:54|| 2009-06-12 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I also notice that the article fails to mention previous Chinese invasions of India.

My big suspicion is that this is all misdirection, as is all the stuff about Taiwan. They're not going to have an easy time buying weapons from Russia if they mainly talk about getting back all those parts of China that Russia currently occupies.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-06-12 10:08|| 2009-06-12 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought Tibet was a permanent and inalienable part of China.

The Tibetans beg to differ (there is quite a large colony of Tibetans in the Twin Cities).

Tibet was separate, but allied with China until the Communists invaded in the 1950's. It only became inalienable when the Chinese decided they needed a port in the Indian Ocean.

That's why the Maoist guerrillas get so much support in the east coast of India.

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-06-12 15:47|| 2009-06-12 15:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Proud of its "advanced political system," India feels superior to China.

I'm not sure that that's actually the case, but it sure shows you how the Chinese think. Implicit in this is "but we Chinese are actually superior to you!" Get used to a lot of this superior/respect us/uncivilized crap for the next 30-40 years.

Posted by gromky 2009-06-12 16:09|| 2009-06-12 16:09|| Front Page Top

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