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Galwan happened last year. Lot of water has flown in Indus. Sino Indian animosity is ascendant. Beyond doubt, China is inimical to India’s interests in every respect. Chinese hatred of India was evident in the picture of a Chinese rocket at take-off besides a burning Indian pyre. China  mocked India during our grief of the second wave. It also ensured that help does not reach India on one pretext or the other. Further, China does not understand another civilisation antithetical to its own in all respects – religion, culture, practices, ethnicities and politics. A singular and homogeneous China and a heterogenous and plural India have no common ground. Indian democracy has strengths far beyond the authoritarian CCP. India is a major threat to China in ways beyond our own self depreciating and dismissive imagination. George Fernandes once said “China is India’s number one enemy”. We should treat it accordingly.            As we  move into the second year of the Chinese pandemic,  new equ

  Sandeep Unnithan’s  Interview of the CDS in India Today  gave me an insight into the current thinking. It was followed up by two outstanding articles . One by  Admiral Arun Prakash in Indian Express  and the other by   Lt Gen Anil Ahuja in Gunners Speak . It set me thinking of three recent events which should make our politico-military national leadership think hard.    Firstly, China has published a National Defence Law with effect from Jan 2021. It gives the Xi Jinping controlled Central Military Commission complete sway in China. It enables nationwide or local defence mobilisation to protect China’s newly expanded national interests to include outer space , electromagnetic networks and overseas development interests. It talks of global governance and setting up international rules. It gives a ominously new meaning to civil military fusion. Well. China appointed  itself as the global military policeman. Secondly. Japan, Australia, S Korea and Vietnam have signed up with the RCEP. I

OTHER ARTICLES OF THE SAME PLAGIARISED GENRE REVEALING THE TRUE HOLE OF PAKISTAN IN THEIR OWN WORDS  STATE OF PAKISTAN  PAKISTAN INTERNALISING PAKISTANS SOCIETAL FRACTURE PAKISTANI INSIGHTS NAYA PAKISTAN NAYA ANARCHY A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ORDINARY PAKISTANI THE NEW FORMULA  DAWN IN THE DUSK OF PAKISTAN LOOTERS OF THE FIFTH REICH I have picked some opinion pieces from the first three days of Jan 2021 of Dawn. As usual what is given here are excerpts only. Click on the heading for the full article. Whatever are my comments and opinion are in blue colour.     Barring one article on  Kashmir’s Future by AG Noorani  there is no anti India rant at the beginning of 2021. In fact in all the articles I have read, I sense a grudging admiration of India!  When Pervez Hoodbhoy says  ‘ the West, China, and India developed modern scientific cultures ’, he has bracketed us in an elite league already. When a Pakistani educationist starts talking of   Kendriya Vidyalayas’  there is something which we

Before you read further I would recommend that you read the background to this article which is available in the links below    THE BASIC ARTICLE : CHINA'S FIVE INSTABILITIES  PART1- CHINESE DESIGNS : ILLEGAL AND COERCIVE PART 2 - TIBET : TANGLED AND HELPLESS  PART 3 - NEEDLES IN THE HAYSTACK PLOICY   When Indian and Tibetan flags were  waved  at the funeral of Company Leader Nyima Tenzin of Special Frontier Force , there was widespread belief that ‘Tibet’ will be leveraged. Since then things have moved forward. Tibet is gaining weight in international relations. In the previous articles we had examined the India, Tibet and China triangle through related perspectives. In this concluding article, issues which impact on a ‘Tibet Policy’ to make China look inward are highlighted.   China has embarked on  Solidification of Tibet . It includes enhanced military infrastructure  upgradation of the LAC, control over the Tibetan population and Sinicism of Tibetan Buddhism. Ominous. There ar