The senior BJP leader claimed that the relationship between India and China will be one of the key determinants of the course of world history in the 21st century.
In unusually strong remarks, senior BJP leader LK Advani today said China's "expansionist" statements such as those on Arunachal Pradesh are creating obstacles in restoring normalcy between the two neighbours.
"I wish China realised that its expansionist statements such as those in relation to Arunachal and its tacit support to Pakistan's hostile attitude towards India are stumbling blocks in the way of restoring normalcy between our two countries," he said in his latest blog posting.
He claimed that the relationship between India and China will be one of the key determinants of the course of world history in the 21st century.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will visit India next month for talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders during which the two sides are expected to take up bilateral irritants and ways to sort them out.
"There is no alternative to peaceful coexistence between India and China," Advani stressed.
According to the BJP veteran, despite India's acute sense of betrayal by China in 1962, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, first as external affairs minister in the Morarji Desai government and later as prime minister, "consciously exerted" towards achieving this end.
Referring to Tibet and its exiled leader Dalai Lama, Advani said, "even though a lot of atrocities have been committed and much of the cultural and spiritual heritage of Tibet damaged — most of all during China's shockingly mis-named Cultural Revolution (1967-77)— Tibet continues to be the holy land of the Tibetan people.
"...I do hope and pray that a day will come soon when His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan people living in forced exile are able to go back to their home land and Holy Land in an honourable and dignified way, and thereafter be able to build the future destiny of Tibet," he said in the blog.
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