The Chinese threat ...

After the recent visit to Arunachal pradesh by the prime minister China has 'demanded' that the PM not provoke them by making such tours . Dalai Lama's visit to Tawang late this year will be another TV time for me . Chinese were not 'demanding' such things so aggressively and so openly in the past . The recent chinese incursions into Indian territory and in some instances painting the rocks in the region 'red' had infuriated the media . There rose a typhoon of 'chinese threat' , confusing and terrifying ordinary citizens .

So for all those people who rants about the possibility of china attacking India before 2012 they would have tell us what political objective does the chinese have to wage a war against India ? The terriotarial claims of the chinese are vacuous . Tawang and Arunachal pradesh were supposed to be a part of Tibetan empire some where in history , and so everything Tibetan is Chinese , they claim .Tibet itself was forcefully occupied by Chinese . The question is will China wage a war and create an international crisis by waging a war for a piece of land that was never theirs . The people of Arunachal pradesh are completely Indian , they have accepted the Indian democracy so fondly that 70% of people turned out for the recent election . So why does the chinese achieve through such ranting ? Bargaining chips in the ongoing negotiations and pressure on India to stop any anti-chinese alliances in south-east asia and across pacific and Indian ocean with US , Japan , Australia and south eastern countries . It's a message that Chinese would raise the stakes for India in the region if it dares to have strategic relationships with it's ideological enemies . India might not have 60 submarines and chinese airforce could be 3 times the Indians but if India has a strategic military cooperation with US and Japan that would catapult it's defence preparedness and would nullify chinese military superiority .The border incursions , aggressive cooperation with south-eastern countries and Arunachal pradesh is a simple book tactic by the chinese .

Having said that i am for completely modernising and augmenting India's military strength proportional to it's threat and not rely on it's 'allies' . We have to engage with China economically and culturally to raise the stakes for both the countries if China decides on something crazy . If China ever wages a war against India then it's image will take a severe beating in the world and the entire free world will turn against china . Even without any of those allies India can inflict unacceptable damage to chinese economy by blocking out Indian ocean . Chinese did not build those beautiful cities only to be destroyed in a nuclear for a piece of land called Arunachal pradesh that was never theirs .while we shouldn't get into the business of predicting we shouldn't be unnerved by Chinese pressure tactics . We should pursue our strategic relationships with US and Japan in the region , increase our co-operation both militarily and economically with south eastern coutries which have conflicts with China like Vietnam , Indonesis , Malaysia and Singapore . We shall move in silence towards conflict resolution with China by engaging with them through more trade and cultural exchange .