[Reader-list] China should break up India: Chinese strategist

[Rakesh Iyer]

Dear all

Chinese strategists, by publishing such articles, constantly prove that they
are a part of the group which comprises the biggest fools of the world.

The reason why India exists as one is not so much the appeasement or the
Hindu religion factor, but the fact that India is a democracy. Considering
that India has the third largest Muslim population in the world, and has
close to 15% of minority population in the country, if people of these
religions felt that they are threatened in India, they would have either
left the country (in the case of Muslims, during Partition) or would have
participated in clandestine activities to destroy the country totally ( like
more blasts or more riots or attacks).

Instead, even in riots, it's Muslims who have suffered, and yet there have
not been that many blasts or that frequent ones as one would have thought if
the above mentioned were the case. By and large, Muslims do believe in the
sense of fairness and justice in Indian democracy, and they realize that the
unfairness in the system exists despite religious differences, that is, it
is directed for all rather than people of particular religions.

The same is true for Christians and other minorities as well.

The problem is with China to a fair degree (India also creates problems but
not of the kind I am expressing now). If China would have been a democratic
nation, so many people (approximately one-sixth of population of the world)
would not have been living with denial of political and social freedoms.
Chinese state has to constantly keep their people under state of oppression
and make-shift state-controlled news media to ensure that people don't
revolt against the state. At least the Indian media is able to counter the
govts. on various issues, and these govts have been of different political
inclinations and arrangements (coalition, single party based, BJP led, Cong
led, Left led and so on). Whereas for China, they are in a double
disadvantage position in a conflict with India, because unlike India where
the central govt has a democratic standing at least, the Chinese govt does
not have it, and there can be situations of managing internal revolt and
external attack at the same time, something that is very difficult in India.


Chinese state feels that India is jealous of them for their growth. I feel
that we should not be jealous but should be learning from the good and bad
of their policies. China has fooled itself into believing that they will be
able to dominate the world on the basis of their military power. The fact is
that China is considered strong because of its economic power (and somewhat
because of its relevance in negotiations with North Korea for the US).

What they don't realize is that not only do people have the ability to self
distruct, but also that people would never succumb to oppression on a
constant basis. The happenings in Xinjiang province a few months ago, as
well as those in Tibet, bear testimony to that.

But then, the only answer China has to that is force. Probably instead of
concentrating on breaking up India (which is a laughable claim from them
with the Indian state being quite powerful and democracy functioning very
well), they should concentrate on bringing democracy in China which can help
in development of all. Infact, to our credit, the Indian democracy succeeded
in bringing an NREGA in India, much before China could bring the 'New Deal'
for reconstruction in China of infrastructure which could help in bringing
employment for the poor (and yet, employment is not a right there).

And if still the priorities of Chinese state are Tawang and breaking up
India, they can continue living in a fool's world, and my sympathies are
with ordinary Chinese citizens.

If I may say so, it's much easier to break up China because what you have to
do is to create a sense of conflict between minorities and majority (Han
Chinese), from the nationalist point of view, and their authorities won't be
able to control it (no democracy there, so there will be no settlement and
listening to minorities as well). Whereas in India, that would not be the
case.

And it's the Right in India, rather than the Left which threatens to destroy
this arrangement, because they want subjugation of the minorities rather
than trying to become a right-of-centre party. And by Right, you all would
probably understand whom I am referring to.

Regards

Rakesh