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Date: Feb 28, 2006 8:41 AM
Subject: In the News: Bush's passage to India
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| Asia In the News: Bush's passage to India President Bush's trip to India this week underscores the country's ever-growing importance in world affairs. These articles from the Quarterly's 2005 special edition "Fulfilling India's promise" offer the Indian Prime Minister's views on the development of his country, as well as a look at India's current economic conditions. India's economic agenda: An interview with Manmohan Singh http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/links/21061 Checking India's vital signs http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/links/21059 Limited-time special access: Normally reserved for premium members, "Checking India's vital signs" is available to all site members until March 7. Read it for free this week only, and spread the word to your colleagues. | ||
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2 comments:
Found articles by "Martin Walker" UPI editor, interesting
Donno if it fits into what you call "praising to deceive" or whether they are genuine
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060228-122750-3360r
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southasia/article_1133436.php/Why_Bush%60s_wooing_of_India_is_personal.
http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2823
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060226-045641-4351r
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southasia/article_1132536.php/India%60s_scientists_revolt
Thought this was rather honest from him:
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For India's nuclear establishment, the kernel of that July agreement was the American statement that had joined the ranks of "leading countries with advanced nuclear technology." That phrase conveys both a status and a special meaning, which includes the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, and to join the United States at the top table of the nuclear club.
Under the American draft that India is now rejecting, India has been demoted from this top table to the status of a country that has a "developing nuclear power program."
In his speech to the Asia Society last week, President Bush clearly endorsed this demotion of India's status. He said: "Under this partnership, America will work with nations that have advanced civilian nuclear energy programs such as Britain, France, Japan and Russia to share nuclear fuels with nations like India that are developing nuclear energy programs."
The reaction among India's critics of the deal was furious.
"This puts us in our place, down with the likes of Burundi," complains one senior Indian security official who spoke to United Press International on the basis of confidentiality.
"This is more than just a symbolic downgrading of our status. It leads the way to whole series of controls on our civil and military nuclear programs and our access to nuclear fuel that will erode our nuclear deterrent, expose our own pioneering researches in new nuclear technologies, and tie the hands of India as a sovereign nation by insisting we commit to this deal 'in perpetuity.' It all adds up to an insult," he added.
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