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We must listen more to commies yechury and karat to do more business with the chinese. :)

http://publication.samachar.com/pub_art ... id=4105890

Intelligence cloud over Huawei

Manoj Gairola, Hindustan Times

New Delhi, April 24, 2009
First Published: 00:01 IST(24/4/2009)
Last Updated: 00:05 IST(24/4/2009)

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) are in a spot over using Chinese equipment to run their networks.

Intelligence agencies are concerned over the issue, with fears originating in a recent report that British intelligence officials have warned their government that gear made by China’s Huawei and deployed by BT, the former British Telecom, may be a security threat.
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NYT:
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China Can’t Have It Both Ways

Published: April 26, 2009


The Chinese government issued two statements last Thursday. Both were only briefly, and separately, noted in the press. They make for a curious contrast.

In one, China denounced Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso for making an offering to the Yasukuni shrine. This is the shrine that honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including 14 top war criminals from World War II, when Japan committed terrible atrocities in China.

China was furious when the then-prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, visited Yasukuni in 2005, and the next two prime ministers stayed clear.

But Mr. Aso, a pugnacious nationalist, revived the controversy on Tuesday by offering the Shinto shrine a potted plant. Mr. Aso’s spokesmen insisted that this was not the same as a visit, and in any case would not affect his scheduled visit to China next week.

China was furious, telling the Japanese that “the question of history is highly sensitive.”

In the other statement, China demanded that the United States cancel a visit by the Dalai Lama (he arrived on Friday for a two-week tour). The Buddhist religious leader, a recipient of the Nobel peace prize who is respected around the world, says he is seeking only autonomy for his homeland, Tibet. China vilifies him as a separatist and regularly lambastes countries and leaders who receive him.

“We oppose the Dalai Lama going to any country to engage in splittist activities under any pretext,” said Jiang Yu, the same Foreign Ministry spokeswoman who had earlier found history to be so sensitive.

Mr. Aso’s offering to Yasukuni was blatantly provocative and offensive, even if all he offered was a potted sakaki evergreen, and his explanation — that he was just expressing “appreciation and respect” to Japanese who gave their all — was disingenuous.

We understand China’s frustration. But it only makes Beijing’s repression of Tibet and its attacks on the Dalai Lama all the more hypocritical.

As it carves out an ever greater role in the world, Beijing will have to learn that it cannot have it both ways. China cannot be the aggrieved victim in the morning and the bully in the afternoon.
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This is bad news for India
Russia, China on comradely terms
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VinodTK wrote:This is bad news for India
Russia, China on comradely terms
Russia is culturally, ethnically, and geographically close to Northern Europe. There may be some up and down's the relations with EU, but that will change soner or later.

EU will have to start taking Russia more seriously and treat it fairly. So far they have been taking the side of smaller nations like Poland, Ukraine, and particularly Georgia. The smaller nations have used their relations with EU to bully Russia.
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China-India equation still uncracke

Chini drone level view of sino-india relations and how yindia is the aggressor and the culprit in the 1962 war.
There is a danger of Sino-India relations becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, with the attitude of one country leading the other to take the same attitude. Unfortunately, issues such as the decades-old border dispute are not easy to resolve.

China claims India has occupied more than 90,000 square kilometers of its territory since the 1940s. In 1913, the British-Indian authority signed a secret agreement with the then Tibetan authority in China to draw the so-called McMahon border line between China and India, which ceded several large parts of Chinese territory to India. Neither the Republic of China (ROC) or the People's Republic of China (PRC) recognized the legitimacy of the McMahon Line.

In 1947, India's Jawaharlal Nehru administration, encouraged by the idea of a great Indian federation, declared its compliance with the McMahon Line. In 1962, partly supported by the Soviet Union, Indian troops invaded the area. A border war broke out. India swiftly lost, but China's military pulled out of the disputed areas to minimize the impact of the war and to avoid superpowers becoming involved.

China has hoped India would withdraw from the territories. But India has controlled them since and many Indian nationals have migrated there, with one large part of the territories becoming an Indian state - Arunachal Pradesh - that China does not recognize.
For the sake of solidarity among developing countries, the then-Chinese government under Mao Zedong showed tolerance towards India, just as it ceded the sovereignty of a small area to North Korea and rented out an island to Vietnam, both of which were so-called brothers of the "great family of socialism".

But the wounds of the brief Sino-India border war have not healed. China has often been cited as a potential enemy of India's military, with ties worsened by China's friendship with Pakistan. India's defense minister publicly stated the threat after India's first successful nuclear-bomb test in 1998.
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VinodTK wrote:This is bad news for India
Russia, China on comradely terms
This does not change the fact that PLA's finest army groups face north and not south.
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I am sure this has been posted before:

The Chinese nuclear tests, 1964–1996
In 1982 China's premier Deng Xiaoping began the transfer of nuclear weapons technology to Pakistan and, in time, to other third world countries. Those transfers included blueprints for the ultrasimple CHIC-4 design using highly enriched uranium, first tested by China in 1966.
A Pakistani derivative of CHIC-4 apparently was tested in China on 26 May 1990.
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Will China Trade Advanced Fighter Jets for Oil?
As a third-generation combat aircraft, the J-10A will pose a real threat to the Indian air force.(???)
At the Singapore Air Show earlier last year, Indian Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major had already carefully inspected the simulation cockpit of the JF-17, which is being jointly developed by China and Pakistan. His trip to the Zhuhai Air Show in November last year was to examine the J-10A/FC-20 fighter.

In contrast to India's increased interest in engaging with China to explore the possibility of buying Chinese-produced weapons systems, Russia sent a much smaller delegation than usual to the Zhuhai Air Show. For the first time, Russia did not exhibit any combat aircraft or radar systems at the air show. Some representatives of Russian enterprises even canceled their planned trips to China at the last minute.
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India-China face-off worsens over ADB loan for Arunachal, Bank doesn’t help
India and China are headed for a major confrontation in the Asian Development Bank with Beijing digging its heels in and not giving its consent to the $2.9-billion India development plan unless the mention of Arunachal Pradesh is removed from the document.

A sum of $60 million is marked for a watershed development project, including flood management, for Arunachal Pradesh.
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The Bank has asked India to resolve the matter bilaterally provoking a strong reaction from New Delhi. While a board meeting has been scheduled for June 2, India has let it be known that it would rather withdraw the entire plan than remove Arunachal Pradesh for the sake of financial approval.

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It’s learnt that India has asked the ADB not to indulge China on bilateral issues. In the run-up to the June 2 meeting, India will look to lobby hard with other board members to ensure that the Chinese objection is overruled. If the conflict isn’t resolved, official sources said, the government may look for alternative funding.
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How come is the lizard, the land of SARS & bird flu, not seeing much action on the swine flu front? Or has the Xinhua achieved gleat progress in immunizing PRC?
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Taiwanese march against president
Taiwan's former Vice-President Annette Lu, centre, leads thousands of opposition protesters in a mass rally in Taipei, Taiwan, 17 May 2009
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Taipei

Thousands of opposition supporters have taken to the streets in Taiwan to protest against President Ma Ying-jeou's policy of engagement with China.
I wonder if Taiwan could one day see a civil war?
In which case, I'd assume China would seize the opportunity to invade.
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Sanjay M wrote:I wonder if Taiwan could one day see a civil war?
In which case, I'd assume China would seize the opportunity to invade.
Sir, in my view, in such a situation (a Taiwan civil war or something like it), if the CCP intervenes, it would simply push the swing populace in Taiwan to the pro-independence side.
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Once China had physical control over the island, no power on earth could hold out against them.

But you're right, perhaps a more prudent strategy for them would be to infiltrate and pre-position special forces groups there, to assist the pro-unification side against the pro-independence side. At least until the mainland could invade.
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It is now clear that Indian foreign policy on Nepal was being dictated by CPI-M which of course favors China

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0518/p90s01-wosc.html

Role of Indian elections

The result of elections in India played an instrumental role in helping the prime ministerial candidate in Nepal get majority support, Wagle says.

"The decision by Nepal's fourth largest party, the Madheshi People's Rights Forum, to support the new coalition came after it became clear that [the Communist Party of India-Marxist] would no longer be a part of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance," he says. "The Forum realized that without Indian communists in the coalition, the new order in India would not be sympathetic to Nepal's Maoists."

Until the results of the India's vote were announced on Saturday, the Forum, an ethnic party that holds the key to the formation of any coalition government in Nepal with its crucial 53 seats, was still pushing for a coalition with Maoists. The Forum's change of heart coincided with the fact that the CPI-M, the Indian benefactors of Nepal's Maoists, suffered an unexpected defeat in the elections in India.
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China's lonely hearts find freedom to choose is not the answer
Love is never easy and to Zhao Kunming it came harder than most. Three times, the military officer asked for permission to marry. Three times the answer came: No.

"My work was very secret – researching missiles and rockets – so everyone introduced to me had to be seriously checked," the 73-year-old explains.

"If they were involved with landlords or bureaucrats from the old days, it was not allowed. There were a few people I had nice relationships with, but the Communist party stopped us."

Finally, his superiors let him wed a young soldier, Xie Yuqin. Four decades on, they are "very satisfied" with their marriage and still staunch party members. In retirement, they have found another way to serve the people – setting up a free matchmaking service.
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Last Tiananmen Square ‘hooligan’ freed after 20 years
The last known prisoner jailed for “hooliganism” during the student-led demonstrations in Tiananmen Square has been released after 20 years in prison, a human rights group said.

But about 30 others remain in jail for their roles in the pro-democracy movement that was brutally crushed by Chinese troops and tanks in June 1989.

Liu Zhihua was one of four workers who organised a factory strike in central Hunan province to protest against the decision to send in the troops. The strike was at the state-owned Electrical Machinery Works in Xiangtan. Xiangtan was the home town of Chairman Mao Zedong.

Mother told not to honour son

China has banned the most prominent mother of a teenager killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown from commemorating his death in public.

Ding Zilin, whose 17-year-old son was shot through the heart as the army entered Beijing on the night of June 3-4, has been told to leave Beijing until after the 20th anniversary of the suppression of the democracy movement. “I have refused,” she said. “There will be a fight.”

Other mothers were allowed to hold a ceremony in memory of youths killed when troops, backed by tanks, entered Tiananmen Square.
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Sex theme park is G-string too far for China
was a G-string too far for China’s prudish authorities, which swung the wrecking balls yesterday to demolish the country’s first sex theme park before it could even open.

The developers had hoped that Love Land would break an ancient taboo and encourage people to talk openly about sex as well as improve their performance in bed. However, their apparent act of altruism was dismissed as “an evil influence on society” and torn down before visitors could inspect the park’s statues of giant genitals or participate in sex technique workshops.

Among the first displays to be destroyed was a rotating signboard with the park’s name, straddled by a giant pair of women’s legs topped by a red thong.

He Shizhong, head of the municipal publicity department, said that the company had “ignored its social responsibility and was interested only in profiting from sensationalism”.
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Air Force chief says China bigger threat

Extract: China has a standing army almost three times the size of Pakistan's, according to official figures and defence industry estimates, but it is the lack of knowledge about China's military that concerned Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major.

"We know very little about the actual capabilities of China, their combat edge or how professional their military is," Major told the Hindustan Times. "They are certainly a greater threat."
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Worl ... 572336.cms

Massive canal project to displace 330,000 people in China
24 May 2009, 1853 hrs IST, Saibal Dasgupta, TNN
BEIJING: China has taken up what would prove to be one of the world’s biggest projects to resettle 330,000 people likely to be affected by the
planned the massive south-to-north water diversion project crisscrossing the giant nation.
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The project chief Zhang Jiyao said on Sunday that 330,000 people will be displaced for creation of the Danjiangkou Reservoir alone in central China's Hubei Province. They will be relocated to neighboring localities, he said.

The purpose of the massive south-to-north water diversion project is designed to divert water from the water-rich south of the country, mainly the Yangtze, or the country's longest river, up to the dry areas of northern China.
http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens/Industry/2009 ... 8215.shtml
After some seven years in progress, China's South-to-North Water Transfer Project has burst its planned budget by tens of billions of yuan and run into delay.

The dealy will certainly add pressure to water scarcity in the country's parched northern region, where price hike may be inevitable as a result.

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The project aims to funnel some 45-billion cubic meters of water each year from China's longest river, Yangtze, northward via three diversion routes when completed.

The middle, eastern, and western routes measure 1,300 kilometers in length in total.

The EO learned that under the newly rescheduled plan, the eastern route would be completed by 2013 as oppose to 2007 as originally planned; this route would feed water to Jiangsu and Shandong provinces.

Meanwhile, the middle route - mainly to quench the thirst of Beijing - would begin water transfer by 2014 instead of 2010. In addition, the western route would start construction in 2020 and be completed by 2050.
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Yangtze river map

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Chicom for you (on Obama's watch too):

To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It
The traders are now joined by tourists exploring the donkey-cart alleys and mud-and-straw buildings once window-shopped, then sacked, by Tamerlane and Genghis Khan.

Now, Kashgar is about to be sacked again.
“From a cultural and historical perspective, this plan of theirs is stupid,” said Wu Lili, the managing director of the Beijing Cultural Protection Center, a nongovernmental group devoted to historic preservation. “From the perspective of the locals, it’s cruel.”

Urban reconstruction during China’s long boom has razed many old city centers, including most of the ancient alleyways and courtyard homes of the capital, Beijing.

Wiping out entire cultures. With the silent support of Clinton and Obama.
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Is there any interesting news across Indo-Chicom border?

With Pakistan in turmoil I would expect China to be ready to grab something IF India had to act.
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NRao wrote:
Wiping out entire cultures. With the silent support of Clinton and Obama.
Not just any culture... OUR culture. Kashgar, Khotan and Yarkand were cities in Kanishka's empire. Like Tibet itself they are more Indic than Sinic... so represent no loss to the Han Nazis.
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Chinese billions in Sri Lanka fund battle against Tamil Tigers
On the southern coast of Sri Lanka, ten miles from one of the world’s busiest shipping routes, a vast construction site is engulfing the once sleepy fishing town of Hambantota.

This poor community of 21,000 people is about as far as one can get on the island from the fighting between the army and the Tamil Tiger rebels on the northeastern coast. The sudden spurt of construction helps, however, to explain why the army is poised to defeat the Tigers and why Western governments are so powerless to negotiate a ceasefire to help civilians trapped on the front line.

This is where China is building a $1 billion port that it plans to use as a refuelling and docking station for its navy, as it patrols the Indian Ocean and protects China’s supplies of Saudi oil. Ever since Sri Lanka agreed to the plan, in March 2007, China has given it all the aid, arms and diplomatic support it needs to defeat the Tigers, without worrying about the West.

Even India, Sri Lanka’s long-time ally and the traditionally dominant power in South Asia, has found itself sidelined in the past two years — to its obvious irritation. “China is fishing in troubled waters,” Palaniappan Chidambaram, India’s Home Minister, warned last week.

The Chinese say that Hambantota is a purely commercial venture, but many US and Indian military planners regard it as part of a “string of pearls” strategy under which China is also building or upgrading ports at Gwadar in Pakistan, Chittagong in Bangladesh and Sittwe in Burma.

The strategy was outlined in a paper by Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher J. Pehrson, of the Pentagon’s Air Staff, in 2006, and again in a report by the US Joint Forces Command in November. “For China, Hambantota is a commercial venture, but it’s also an asset for future use in a very strategic location,” Major-General (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in Delhi said.

The British Navy used the Sri Lankan port of Trincomalee as its main regional base until 1957 and still shares a naval base with the US on the nearby island of Diego Garcia. China has no immediate plans for a fully fledged naval base but wants a similar foothold in the Indian Ocean to protect its oil supplies from piracy or blockade by a foreign power, analysts say.

Beijing sent three ships on an unprecedented anti-piracy mission to the Gulf of Aden in December, and in January a Chinese defence White Paper said that the navy was “developing capabilities of conducting co-operation in distant waters . . .”

China has cultivated ties with Sri Lanka for decades and became its biggest arms supplier in the 1990s, when India and Western governments refused to sell weapons to Colombo for use in the civil war. Beijing appears to have increased arms sales significantly to Sri Lanka since 2007, when the US suspended military aid over human rights issues.

Many of the arms have been bought through Lanka Logistics & Technologies, co-headed by Gotabhaya Rajapksa, the Defence Secretary, who is also the President’s brother.

In April 2007 Sri Lanka signed a classified $37.6 million (£25 million) deal to buy Chinese ammunition and ordnance for its army and navy, according to Jane’s Defence Weekly.

China gave Sri Lanka — apparently free of charge — six F7 jet fighters last year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, after a daring raid by the Tigers’ air wing destroyed ten military aircraft in 2007. One of the Chinese fighters shot down one of the Tigers’ aircraft a year later.

“China’s arms sales have been the decisive factor in ending the military stalemate,” Brahma Chellaney, of the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, said. “There seems to have been a deal linked to Hambantota.”

Since 2007 China has encouraged Pakistan to sell weapons to Sri Lanka and to train Sri Lankan pilots to fly the Chinese fighters, according to Indian security sources.

China has also provided crucial diplomatic support in the UN Security Council, blocking efforts to put Sri Lanka on the agenda. It has also boosted financial aid to Sri Lanka, even as Western countries have reduced their contributions.

China’s aid to Sri Lanka jumped from a few million dollars in 2005 to almost $1 billion last year, replacing Japan as the biggest foreign donor. By comparison, the United States gave $7.4 million last year, and Britain just £1.25 million.

“That’s why Sri Lanka has been so dismissive of international criticism,” said B. Raman of the Chennai Centre for China Studies. “It knows it can rely on support from China.”
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shiv wrote:Yangtze river map

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The question is if they will try to divert Bramaputra water towards Yangzte river.
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Happy 20th anniversary of Tinamen everyone.

Tiananmen Square, 20 Years Later

It has 4 articles, I quote one of the articles
At that time I was working in a missile-production factory in Nanjing, my hometown. The factory housed us in identical buildings, indoctrinated us in meeting rooms, and barred us from wearing lipstick or flared trousers and from dating anyone within three months of entering the factory. Every month, we had to show blood to the “period police” to prove we were not pregnant. :shock:

I listened to the BBC and attended lectures at Nanjing University where we debated whether Western-style democracy was the answer for China. During that time, my ear was glued to my shortwave radio, and I learned about the crackdown at Tiananmen from foreign broadcasts. Feeling defeated, I left China in 1990. When I returned a few years later, I found a booming economy and, eventually, a space called “privacy” that hadn’t really existed before. People could finally dress and date as they pleased.

We’re still in a cage here. But for many, my fellow marchers included, it has grown so large that we hardly feel its limits. In that sense the 1989 protests weren’t a total failure.
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Chinese kidnappers swoop on girls amid shortage of females.

China’s one-child policy has led to a shortage of females that baby kidnappers are ruthlessly exploiting, forcing authorities to launch a nation-wide DNA database to help resolve identification of missing children, a news report said on Sunday.

Thousands of parents across China have been forced to resort to a mass campaign by signing up to a website whose name means “baby come home”. They have posted details of their missing children on the social website, defying authorities instinctive move to suppress such a campaign.

According to China’s public security ministry, between 2,000 and 3,000 children and young women are kidnapped every year, but the state-controlled newspapers have put the figure as high as 20,000, The Times daily reported.

The ministry was forced to launch a nation-wide DNA database to help resolve identification of missing children.

China imposed the one-child policy in 1979 to curb population growth that had rocketed out of control since Mao Zedong’s instruction to the nation in the 1960s to bury the United States in a human wave.

With the strict birth control policy, a recent report in the British Medical Journal showed that 124 boys are born for every 100 girls in the country as a whole, and in one province the figure has risen to 192.

Moreover, widespread use of abortions of girls in families intent on having a boy, has left the countryside short of female babies.
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China’s rise and its potentially more baneful consequences for the region was the subject that dared speak its name only in huddles in the corridors. There, the Indians were most animated. They talked of a “ring of pearls” with which China was choking India by driving roads over Chinese highlands into friendly Pakistan and Myanmar, threatening to divert rivers that flow into India from the Tibetan plateau, and seeking naval bases in the Indian Ocean. In the formal sessions, any concern for China was merely hinted at in an endless calls for more “transparency”, opiate of the security classes.

As an aspiration, transparency appears inarguable, so it was refreshing to corner a senior Chinese in the People’s Liberation Army willing to argue with it. The drive for military transparency was an American-led plot. Calling for it was all very well for the United States, he said. America's deterrence depends on enemies knowing quite how powerful it is. At the other end of the spectrum, states with a feeble deterrence such as North Korea count on keeping what they have secret. As for China, the officer said, transparency was a mug’s game. Western analysts, he complained, accuse China of greatly understating its military budget. If it was only true, he would be the first to celebrate.
Well, at least desi security establishment is alive to chini designs. What they can or will do about it is another story.
Ignorance won't be an excuse, the next time smelly stuff hits the fan, I guess.
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Arunachal MP speaks - Very disturbing News
Chinese Incursions

Rijiju reveals the Chinese have been intermittently intruding and taking over Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh, even abducting Indian citizens. “On a particular date it is difficult to say that China has made incursions into Arunachal Pradesh. They practice what I call ‘Creeping Incursions’. Over a period of time, they slowly and gradually shift the flag posts. The Indian Army is deployed in only a few pockets where it is peaceful and calm. The problem is that the lack of infrastructure and roads on our side makes it difficult for the army to monitor the border in all areas. The culprit here is not the army. It is the Government of India. In fact, our people and even security personnel are captured and tortured by the Chinese.”


WTF????
Is it true?
Are such incidents kept under wraps by GOI or is the MP talking bullshit?
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Another prespective on PRC

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Rishirishi wrote:Yangtze river map -
The question is if they will try to divert Bramaputra water towards Yangzte river.
River maps don't tell that much, you need to look at watershed map for the river. There is a substantial portion of water in Bramaputra which comes of Indian watershed. Add it to the fact that it isn't heavily populated belt and we share it with Bangladesh. So if PRC diverts Bramaputra India will still get its water, PRC will steal Bangladesh's water!
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A year after the uprising in Tibet and neighboring provinces, a top-level meeting of China's Leading Group on National Security recently concluded that the events may have been caused by a serious intelligence mistake. Contrary to what Chinese intelligence thought at the time, the demonstrations were not orchestrated from abroad by the Dalai Lama. Indeed, Beijing’s spies had infiltrated the Dalai Lama’s circle at Dharamsala but the information they provided seems to have been poorly interpreted. The Leading Group is headed by a troika consisting of president Hu Jintao in person, prime minister Wen Jiabao and Dai Bingguo, who heads the Central Office for Foreign Affairs and plays the part of a national security adviser of sorts. Intelligence specialists like the boss of Guoanbu, Geng Huichang, and the man in charge of military intelligence, general Wang Hui, have given their blessings to the findings of the Leading Group.
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Yes,"Gin and Tonic" and co. are missing an opportunity to settle the Tibet issue with the Dalai Lama while he is active and alive and retains his influence with the Tibetan diaspora.This is similar to the missed oppportunity that Israel and the Palestinians had when Arafat was alive.Once the Dalai Lama departs,the younger generation of Tibetans will not be as patient and non-violent as him and will be open to outside influence.

Meanwhile in a move that will irritate the PRC clique no end,Hillary Clinton has stuck a needle up China's nether regions by demanding the number of those killed in the Tianmen massacre,whose anniversary China is desperatly trying to obliterate but is widely remembered and commemorated across the globe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... quare.html

US calls for China to reveal dead of Tiananmen Square
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of State, has said China should name the people who died in the Tiananmen Square protests, on the 20th anniversary of the massacre.
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Philip wrote:Yes,"Gin and Tonic" and co. are missing an opportunity to settle the Tibet issue with the Dalai Lama while he is active and alive and retains his influence with the Tibetan diaspora.This is similar to the missed oppportunity that Israel and the Palestinians had when Arafat was alive.Once the Dalai Lama departs,the younger generation of Tibetans will not be as patient and non-violent as him and will be open to outside influence.

Meanwhile in a move that will irritate the PRC clique no end,Hillary Clinton has stuck a needle up China's nether regions by demanding the number of those killed in the Tianmen massacre,whose anniversary China is desperatly trying to obliterate but is widely remembered and commemorated across the globe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... quare.html

US calls for China to reveal dead of Tiananmen Square
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of State, has said China should name the people who died in the Tiananmen Square protests, on the 20th anniversary of the massacre.
Philip saar ... this is pure kabuki theatre ... when the US is going to China with a begging bowl, do you think they will care to respond to this ...
This statement is meant for the domestic US audience not for the Chinese
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Chinese Wonder at Sharp, Unexpected Drop in Students Taking College-Entry Exam
http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id= ... _medium=en

A Student Leader of the 1989 Protests in China Tries to Surrender
http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id= ... _medium=en
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