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China daily warns India to avoid hegemonistic designs in neighbourhood |
An editorial in the Chinese daily -- People's Daily -- has said
that powers that be in Beijing are not surprised or overtly troubled by what it
terms as India's "hegemonistic designs" in the Asian region, attributing it to
New Delhi's narrow-minded and intolerable response to outside criticism. "Given
the country's history, hegemony is a hundred percent result of British colonialism,"
the editorial claims in a web site report. It further goes on to analyse that
in the British era, India as a country covered a vast territory including present-day
India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh as well as Nepal, and therefore, it was natural
for India to take for granted that "it could continue to rule the large area when
Britain ended its colonialism in South Asia." The editorial also accuses authorities
in New Delhi of turning a blind eye to the concessions that China has repeatedly
made over disputed border issues. "Many Indians didn't know that Jawaharlal Nehru,
the first Prime Minister of India, had once said that India could not play an
inferior role in the world, and it should either be a superpower or disappear.
Although the pursuit of being a superpower is justifiable, the dream of being
a superpower held by Indians appears impetuous," the editorial suggests. "Throughout
the history, India has constantly been under foreign rule. The essence for the
rise of India lies in how to be an independent country, to learn to solve the
complicated ethnic and religious issues, to protect the country from terrorist
attacks, to boost economic development as well as to put more efforts on poverty
alleviation," the editorial patronisingly claims. It warns India that its hegemonistic
designs can be geo-politically harmful. It says that China and other countries
in the South Asian neighbourhood are disappointed with India pursuing "a foreign
policy of "befriend the far and attack the near". "India, which vows to be a superpower,
needs to have its eyes on relations with neighbours and abandon the recklessness
and arrogance as the world is undergoing earthshaking changes. For India, the
ease of tension with China and Pakistan is the only way to become a superpower,"
the editorial concludes. |
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