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China says India has forgotten lessons of 1962 war | While China has blamed New Delhi for trying to provoke Beijing by orchestrating Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's controversial visit to Arunachal Pradesh, India has rubbished the allegation. "The Dalai Lama went to southern Tibet at this critical moment
probably because of pressure from India. By doing so, he can please the country
that has hosted him for years," the People's Daily quoted Hu Shisheng, a researcher
at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, as saying. The
report published in China's state-run newspaper Global times even said that India
seems to have forgotten the lessons of 1962 war. "India may have forgotten the
lessons of 1962, when its repeated provocation resulted in military clashes.
India is on this wrong track again...When the conflict gets sharper and sharper,
the Chinese government will have to face it and solve it in a way India has designed,"
Hu said. Meanwhile, Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor, on
Monday denied Chinese charges, pointing out that New Delhi does not deal with
the travels of religious figures. "The Dalai Lama is free to travel anywhere in
India... I have not heard the suggestion comes from us as we do not deal with
the spiritual travels of spiritual leaders. He has to visit his flock as he sees
fit," Tharoor told the India Economic Summit. He added that he was "sure that
the initiative (to visit Tawang) would have come from him". Tharoor also said
that India had been "very generous" by giving over "58,000 business visas" to
the Chinese. "As far as our basic policy is concerned, we would certainly be hesitant
to offer employment to a foreigner for a job which could be done by an Indian
in India," said Tharoor. Earlier, addressing the mass at Arunachal's Tawang, Dalai
Lama said Beijing's accusations that his visit was anti-China and damaging to
India-China relations are "baseless". "My visit to Tawang is non-political and
aimed at promoting universal brotherhood and nothing else," the Nobel Peace laureate
had said. |
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