From: Sanjeev N
Tensions in the China-India-U.S. triangle
Wrong move in Sino-Indian chess - http://chellaney.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4913C7C8A2EA4A30!1123.entry
The Indo-US strategic tie-up has served as the key instigation in China's hardening stance towards India
Brahma Chellaney Mint October 26, 2009
The India-China relationship has entered choppy waters due to a perceptible hardening in the Chinese stance. Anti-India rhetoric in the state-run Chinese media has intensified, even as China has stepped up military pressure along the disputed Himalayan frontier through frequent cross-border incursions. Beijing also has resurrected its long dormant claim to Arunachal Pradesh.
The more muscular Chinese stance clearly is tied to the new US-India strategic partnership, symbolized by the nuclear deal and deepening military cooperation. As former US president George W. Bush declared in his valedictory speech, "We opened a new historic and strategic partnership with India."
The Barack Obama administration, although committed to promoting that strategic partnership, has been reluctant to take New Delhi's side in any of its disputes with Beijing. This has emboldened China to up the ante against India.
Indeed, the present pattern of border provocations, new force deployments and mutual recriminations is redolent of the situation that prevailed 47 years ago when China—taking advantage of the advent of the Cuban missile crisis, which brought the world to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon—routed the unprepared Indian military in a surprise two-front aggression.
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