CHINA'S STRATEGY OF INDIRECT APPROACH TO CONTAIN INDIA / MR SREE IYER / ...

China is very clearly adopting a strategy of indirect approach as propounded by Sir Liddel Hart to contain India. Having failed to enforce a military solution on India for the past four years and seeing the threats developing on its other fronts combined with internal difficulties, China is using Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to get at India. It is also attempting to dilute the India USA partnership and use Russia to pressurise India. Over and above this it is weaponising trade, technology, water and legal issues to keep up the pressure on India. The Chinese view is that India is undoubtedly the most promising country in this century, except for China and the United States. Germany, Japan, Britain, France and South Korea have reached their peak. Russia has a shortage of population. Brazil and South Africa are not enterprising. Other countries are not enough to become a world power in terms of resources and population. India, which has a huge population, resources and markets, is more likely to rise. India’s growth is at China’s expense. Hence it will do everything in its power to suppress our growth.

What do we do? I have outlined some issues here. More can be done with imagination and vision.

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