Fwd: The neighbourhood tangle+China’s strategic vulnerabilities make it assailable+Sino India boundary row is a wound from history

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From: Sanjeev Nayyar

1. America's Pakistan problem by Brahma C 21.3.18 https://chellaney.net/2018/03/20/americas-pakistan-problem/

 

2. Why are Indian diplomats being attacked in Pakistan 21.3.18 by RSN Singh http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/why-are-indian-diplomats-under-attack-in-pakistan/

 

3. China's strategic vulnerabilities make it assailable 21.3.18 by Dr Subhash Kapila http://www.indiandefencereview.com/chinas-strategic-vulnerabilities-make-it-assailable/

India's war-preparedness against a China-Pakistan imposed "Two Front War" scenarios must be placed on a fast-track mode and the Indian policy establishment not lulled into complacency of an under-emphasised or de-emphasised 'China Threat' by certain sections in the Indian policy establishment. Concurrently, the Indian policy establishment should minutely scrutinise China's strategic vulnerabilities so that these could be exploited by India to off-set the power asymmetry with China.

 

4. Multilateralism at crossroads 21.3.18 by Kanwal Sibal https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/game-of-powers-217127

 

5. Cooperation in generic drugs can lead to healthier China-India trade relations 20.3.18 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1094427.shtml

Beyond just importing more generic medicine from India, China could consider ways to cooperate with India in developing its own generic sector. India, for its part, can encourage its drugmakers to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts'

 

6. The neighbourhood tangle by G Parthasarathy 22.3.18 http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/the-neighbourhood-tangle/561352.html

 While some concern has been voiced about Russian arms supplies to Pakistan, the Russians are well aware of the fact that a cash-strapped Pakistan cannot afford to buy its frontline equipment, which is presently confined to purchase of some MI 35 attack helicopters. The Russians also know that the Indian market will be closed for the equipment they supply to Pakistan. The greater concern in New Delhi, however, arises from Russian readiness to join with China and Pakistan in seeking to give legitimacy to the Afghan Taliban. This is rather ironic, given the fact that approximately 14,000 Soviet soldiers were killed and more than 35,000 wounded in action between 1979 and 1989 against ISI backed radical Islamic armed Afghan groups.'

Moreover, there are substantial prospects for increasing Russian supplies of coal, diamonds, LNG and fertilizers to India. Interestingly, while the much touted 2014 Russian gas deal with China was expected to generate $ 400 billion by gas sales to China, thedrastic fallin gas prices is likely to reduce the returns by well over 60%. There is also considerable potential for Russia and India to reinforce each other, in executing energy and rail transportation projects in third countries, like Afghanistan and Vietnam. Russia and India are presently cooperating in the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Bangladesh.

The Russians view China's meteoric rise and its growing population, as a threat to their Siberian region and even to Vladivostok. The Soviet Union and Mao's China, loathed each other, from the very inception of Communist rule in China. Mao waskept waiting for months in 1949, before he got to call on Stalin, who met him only after he met Indian Ambassador Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in January 1950. Mao made no secret about his contempt for both Stalin and Khrushchev.

 

7. Sino India boundary row is a wound from history 22.3.18 http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1094546.shtml

'The boundary issue that China and India are facing today is actually a contradiction between the Chinese empire, which has long been unified in history, and today's India, which was formed and demarcated by British colonialists. 

SN – With U.S. heat on China, it wants to cool heat with India. Hope India does not get taken in and pursues its interests in a focused way.

 

8. The energy that Pakistan needs 22.3.18 by Ayesha A https://tribune.com.pk/story/1665948/6-energy-pakistan-needs/

 

 

Warm Regards
sanjeev nayyar

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