[PEN-L:6739] Re: Re: Embassy Attack Fallout

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ajit:

The Russian foreign minister floated the idea last year while in India.
It did not go very far.
The idea is not without merit, but it has a lot of historical baggage to
overcome.
USSR-India alliance against China had been operative until the fall of
the USSR.
India, a great friend of China after WWII under Nehru, has abandoned the
non-aligned nation leadership since after Nehru's death.  The Indo-China
border war over disputed territory left by British imperialism was
unfortunate and unnecessary and China saw it as part of US containment
policy against China. When India shift toward the USSR, China drew
closer to Pakistan for both geo-political and domestic minority policy
(moslem) considerations.
Since the end of the Cold War, India and China repeatedly try to move
toward rapprochement, but the complexity of Indian domestic politics
needed a hostile posture toward China to justify its nuclear policy.
And then there is the Tibetan exiled pretension government.  To China,
India adopted British imperialistic aims toward Tibet. Until India stops
supporting the Dalai Lama, Indian-Chinese relations cannot improve.  The
Indian domestic political scene is too unstable for long term foreign
policy structure as this time, and in many ways the same problem exists
in Russia.
Yet in the long run, there is logic in the idea.
What does it look like from the Indian perspective?

Henry

Ajit Sinha wrote:

> _____________________
> Henery,
> What do you think of the talk about Russia-China-India triangular
> counterweight to US led hegemony that is going on around here?
> Cheers, ajit sinha
> >