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Re: Indian attitudes
« Reply #30 on: May 12, 2022, 12:10:20 am »
https://www.barrons.com/articles/india-is-reluctant-to-condemn-russia-its-history-with-china-looms-large-51652132357

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In the 1950s, as post-colonial independent nations, India and China had forged friendly ties based on their common opposition to imperialism. But these ties frayed as disagreements over their border surfaced. The 1960 border negotiations between Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru revealed fundamental differences in how each side viewed the border. China viewed the border as an imperialist fabrication drawn by the then British empire. Zhou wondered at the time why India, an anti-colonial country, did not reject the premise of the China-India border as an irrelevant colonial legacy. Unlike Zhou, Nehru regarded modern India as the legitimate successor to the British Indian government which had simply formalized historical borders that, in his description, had “existed since millennia.”







It is the fault of the British.

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There have been periods of thaws in the India-China relationship, including during the mid-2000s, when trade between the two countries increased after President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set aside the border issue. Nonetheless, India’s threat perception of China has not changed since its post-1962 shift. This is true even though China is today India’s largest trading partner. The situation on the border remains ambiguous. Unlike the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, which is delineated by mutually accepted maps, there is no agreement on the Line of Actual Control between India and China.
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For New Delhi, the Ukraine conflict’s best-case scenario is a quick resolution that advances the emergence of a multipolar world in which both Russia and the U.S. balance a rising China. This is a fundamental reason why India is reluctant to condemn Russia, for fear of Russia perceiving India as choosing to side with the U.S., and thereby driving it into a closer relationship with China. India’s worst-case scenario may be that the U.S. would mend its relationship with China in order to sideline and contain Russia.

This should actually be India's best-case scenario, as it could then simply join the united effort to contain Russia.

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New Delhi also is concerned that the Russia-created playbook in Ukraine offers China a lesson, not in relation to Taiwan as the U.S. fears, but for India’s border territories. Those who point out that Russia would not support India in the event of a war with China should understand that India would not necessarily expect it to do so. Rather, India trusts that Russia is likely to return the favor and stay neutral.

My proposal to solve the dispute:

1) China gives India everything India wants on the India-China border.
2) India a) extradites Tenzin Gyatso to China; b) sends troops to help China take back Outer Manchuria from Russia.
3) US withdraws troops from West Pacific.