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China was never a friend and never will be. As rightly pointed out by the author, the only way to deal effectively with China is to develop our military, economic, and diplomatic strengths. Moving air force and army divisions to the Northeast has been the timely approach. We must work round the clock to check the Chinese design of containing India.

True. China is an absolute threat and India is in a no-go situation because of China's economic superiority and global market share. Today Europe and US completely depend on Chinese products. The EU and the US don't want manufacturing in their territories, but they want high-end jobs like the IT jobs in India. So they don't consider China their rival but a partner in making goods. But they consider India a rival to their service industry.

This will be a big problem, unless we start cornering the Chinese in manufacturing.

Superbly articulated, absolutely accurate! It is so refreshing to see a honest and direct assessment of the egregious monster that China has become.

An absolutely true piece. Beware of China. Like all dictatorships, it is cunning, power-hungry, and has no scruples. And having been to China many times over the past five years, I can categorically state that its people are brainwashed and only know what the government tells them. Hence, most don't even know that China invaded and annexed Tibet. They actually think China went in to modernize Tibet and, in any case, Tibet was always part of China.

We have to subtly make it clear to the world that a nuclear attack on India by Pakistan would mean an attack on both Pakistani and Chinese cities. Once the Chinese know that we are serious, they will stop Pakistan.

Thanks to Mr R Jagannathan, who explains many things clearly about China. China's stand has not changed for many decades. It is the biggest roadblock to India's rise as a world power.

What Mr Jagannathan writes is totally correct. The analysis that China is a rogue state under wraps is true. The few people who are controlling the government/military are not accountable to anyone either in China or outside. Such massive military might in the hands of a few unaccountable persons is a very dangerous situation.

Mr Jagannathan has rightly given reference to the China-Pakistan duo's sponsorship of insurgencies in various parts of India. Many insurgencies in India cannot be explained unless you bring in the China element. Sometimes it becomes incomprehensible how farmers, tribals, and a handful of people who do not have resources to make both ends meet get arms and ammunition to rise against the state. Do we not all agree that the time has long passed to act tough on insurgencies and eliminate them forever so that we can concentrate on more important issues. How long can we carry the stigma of being a soft country?

Mr Jagannathan is also right in saying that India has to stand unified and achieve matching military and economic supremacy to earn respect. But our thrust should be towards achieving more economic supremacy as it will liberate India and people will have respect for the country. With our economic might we can thwart any effort by so-called rogue states. However, we are not taught, trained, and tutored to stand unified and cherish the idea of India. There is no clarity among citizens what the 'idea of India' is and what we should stand for.

Why? Why always think China is the block? Stupid writer with stupid ideas. We can have better life if we give up such stupid opinions.

lol. Who cares what you think? Please fix your slumdog cities first to earn some respect.

Jealousy can be so malicious, especially in a country in which most people are illiterate and since birth are treated as subhumans. I have some Indian friends around. I also have friends come from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, which helps me to see the true colours of India.

China might be an economic superpower, but it lives in fear of its own people rebelling against its government. This fear peaked in 1989 in what is now known as the Tiananmen Square tragedy. But such suppression of dissent gets reported only once in a while.

China's biggest problem is its failure to realize what its biggest threat is. Instead it is busy diverting its people's attention to external gains like the Olympic Games, space mission, holding of American treasury bills, etc. This is not going to work in the long term unless they build institutions that will listen to the voice of the people. Today China is run like a factory by the Communist Party.

India has its own internal problems, the recent Maoist and naxal troubles being a few, but we should give credit to the new home minister who is doing a great job in responding to these problems in the right fashion & in a timely manner.

Those of us who know China better than what they show on TV and in the movies know that it is our civilisational rival. The only thing in the past 2,500 years of cultural exchanges that brought us closer was Buddhism. Unfortunately, it also distanced us, in the form of the Dalai Lama.

We look at ourselves and see that nothing has changed since Independence, besides the population growth and nuclear tests. Politicians like Nehru with their big words and lack of vision kept us the way we are, an ignorant, slumdog country which barks at its mighty neighbours.

If we had developed normally since Independence, we wouldn't have had to worry about China or Pakistan. Now we are blaming China for conspiring to keep us from development.

However, in the present scenario, China really is the biggest threat not only to India, but also to world peace. China's funding of Pakistan, North Korea, and fanatical Islamist jihadis, and its scary economic and military strategies have shown this to the world. We need to fight this godless communist racist monster and we have to find a way to subdue it to the ancient might of Bharat.

How do we do that? There is only one answer: the way you make a straight line scratched on the ground smaller; by scratching a bigger line next to it. Internal development is the answer, all-round development. Be it military, economic, cultural or intellectual. Which is quite impossible with our present bogus politicians, who won't let Indians wake up. They will lose their privileges if Indians like me start looking at issues with a learned brain. That is what makes the whole China issue more serious. That we can't match China anywhere in the near future.

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