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Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - India reveals flawed Tibet policy
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Dec 6, 2007 9:14 PM EST
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he recent decision by India's ruling United Progressive Alliance government to bar ministers from attending a felicitation ceremony for the Dalai Lama is an indication not only of the blunders committed by the government in its foreign policy decision-making, but more perilously it exposes the flawed nature of India's policy towards Tibet.
India has so far failed to understand the nuances in Chinese diplomatic practice and negotiating tactics. It has time and again fallen into the Chinese trap, sacrificing its national interests in the process.
Clearly, China is tackling its Tibet problem at two levels. One, it is involving the Dalai Lama's representatives in fruitless talks on the resolution of the Tibetan problem, while also disparaging him as a "splittist" who aims to disintegrate China. Two, it is arm-twisting India on the border dispute by raising the Tawang district issue and asking India to remove its army bunkers from its outposts at Batang La near the India-Bhutan-China tri-junction, while at the same time mesmerizing the Indian leadership with rhetoric on India-China joint leadership in bringing about an Asian renaissance.
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India has so far failed to understand the nuances in Chinese diplomatic practice and negotiating tactics. It has time and again fallen into the Chinese trap, sacrificing its national interests in the process.
Given its tradition of pursuing an independent foreign policy, it is incomprehensible why India is buckling down under Chinese pressure on Tibet.
India lacks the political will to creatively use the Tibetan card and is losing an important leverage in its negotiations with China. India has the Tibet card if it chooses to use. The very presence of the Dalai Lama in India along with 120,000 Tibetan refugees spread across 35 settlements is leverage for India.
Indian foreign policy may sound independent but at times it has no logic...politics never was logical...India has always been bogged down by the Chinese in there dealing with them..if we look at it the Chinese have started encricling India on the eastern front starting with Nepal ,they have made incursions in Bhutan and want to create the Nepal experiment there also....Skkim is a problem with them and they claim Arunachal Pradesh to be a part of China....they may turn around and say well that most of the north east is a part of China....Indian foreign policy may sound independent but it has to come out of stone age....
120,000 Tibetan refugees in India, India could have turned this into a winning game....however it does not have the political will and some old politicians still believe in the slogan coined by Zhou Enlai "Hindi Chni Bhai Bahi" (Indians and Chinese are brothers)...should India ever trust China....
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