What do u think about the recent speech of chinese envoy claiming arunachal pradesh as thier own territory?
821730
I'm ok with that. If they lay claim to Wicklow I will have to review my situation.
391048
I agree with the comment about the first act on our soil is a crime.  And to wave their former countries flag about and demand ANYTHING is preposterous.  It is your former country for a reason, correct?  If it is your current country, here's your ticket.  If it is truly your former country, then for crying out loud ASSIMILATE!  I believe we were founded as a melting pot, not a storage shelf for your old icons and lifestyles.
394389
I think our relationship with China is on even keel....but bordering on adversarial unfortunately.\n\nTheir military build up is on going and for what?  Who are they getting ready to fight?  Probably no one....but we are in debt to the Chinese in the billions of dollars.  Eventually we will have to concede that they are on our tier of dominance.\n\nI agree with a previous poster's analysis in that they will be the superpower on one....it may not be real soon, but it will be one day.\n\nThis is the thing.  Small thing.  All they have do is....drumroll please.........convert to some form of democracy.  That's all.  Nothing major.  They can do that in a few weeks.  \n\nSeriously.....Communism does not work.  And look at what America is trying to do.  Bush was over there wanting China is ease up on religious tolerance....along with a few other things.  But see....we don't really want them to have a democratic system....we want them to have widespread, capitalistic tendency.....democracy-styled freedoms.  There is a massive difference.\n\nWe don't want a mega copy of us.....we are Miller, or Budweiser.  We want them to be Zima.
335451
Listen .. here's a fact for u : \nINDIA HAS NEVER ATTACKED OR TRIED TO TAKEOVER ANOTHER COUNTRY IN IT"S ENTIRE HISTORY and would never do so..pls rewind thro the history textbooks. \n\nShe has only defended herself from attacks. \n\nThe view that the Ministry for External Affairs is not entirely in support of the monarchy. It's a fact.\n\nBut that doesnot mean that India would want to takeover Nepal. It respects and acknowledges the state of Nepal. \n\nBut the present tensions REQUIRE INDIA TO ACT DIPLOMATICALLY. And , by diplomatically i mean , talks or something like that, and NOT an invasion.\n\nWhy India HAS TO ACT , is because , Nepal is India's close neighbor . And if the neighbors have such a bloody bad problem , India cant just sit and ignore it, pretending as if there is no problem at all.\n\nWell.. the Indian MEA (ministry of external.. ) is already in a fix esp. after the Iranian vote issue. And so , the next time they take a decision, they are going to ponder over it a hundred times. And , India invading Nepal is simply out of question.\n\nSo. Dont worry.\n\n\nIncase the army is let loose in Nepal , the CPi and BJP will eat Congress' head off.. So, even the political equations DONOT favor an invasion of Nepal!!
1156002
It's 100% right. Indian citizens are nationalist & patriot. They\nhave developed their country like anything. I think within few years\nthey will cross Japan & China & will be the most powerful \ncountry of Asia.
351450
Not at all.  In military and atomic power India is not a puppet like Iraq or Afgan.  Even if the 100 million people walks over, the invation will come to end.  US will not take this kind of invation decision against India or China fearing the population these countries have.
672703
Without being too invasive or rude, I dont really know what is going on in dheli. There are people driving their cars, vans and lorries at top speed, beeping their horns and going thru red lights, and you are worried about a move towards communism? Did you ever stop to think that maybe communism is EXACTLY what India needs to become the rich, prosperous country we all know it can be. Its the corrupt government that let india down. Look at places like chadigarah - a communist state - one of the most beautiful cities in india. There is no welfare state - that means no government support for unemployed, sick or poor. Fix up and take a stand. As a british born Indian woman - I wish i could do more to help my motherland become then best it can be.
1079959
China also would like to help but can't because of its close proximity to India who might be suspicious... you're on you own sorry!
222254
Mr. Acer, \nAs a resident in Mainland, I'd like to clarify for some "popular" views hereof.\n1. Almost all Mainland Chinese care about Taiwan problem.\n  Because it will be a great humiliation to China if Taiwan declare its indenpendence. you will have to confess, most "Taiwanese" came from Mainland China hundreds of  years or decades years ago. whether the Ming dynasty, the Qing dyansty, or the ROC who ruled Taiwan, they are all of "China". Taiwan is apart of China.\n2. As a critic military strongpoint if Taiwan splits it will be a great convenience for other foreign force to deploy missles, bombers and troops for attacking the mainland,as calld "a never sinked aircraft-carrier". That's why the USA is so pleased to back up Taiwan. And they are so skillful at alienating a country and back up an opposite side to achieve their goal- weaken and control a country, and get benefit from it.\n3. Do not label the PRC with "communist country" and think it wholely a evil. It's a cold-war ideology.\nAs you know that in the past China suffered poverty from the political movements and Taiwan benefited from the enormous American economy. But now with the opening-up started by Deng Xiaoping the PRC are advocating for great economy growth.(Ironically nowadays the Taiwan is hot for political campaigns:( ). A Taiwan manager told me that the current mainland economy is soaring just as Taiwan did in 70s. Many defects may you find, but dont lose confidence.\n3. Taiwan is now a mature, democratic country, so dont want to under control of a arbitrary gov. Please note that PRC never wants to destroy the current prosperty of Taiwan. On the contrary, Beijing is doing a lot to maitain the economical growth of Taiwan. It's the politicians who are scaring the mass as describing the "Communist China" as a devil who wants to ruine Taiwan as a "election words".\nWhat the PRC want is that Taiwan dont not declare its independence and not act as a jackal for other foreign countries. You Taiwanese can gov yourself in the name of China.
618604
I think it's apalling that politicians (especially those currently facing charges of violence against peaceful protesters in the Ghandi Ashram) should advocate the suppression of freedom of expression. Amir Khan should be celebrated for having the courage to see beyond the short term benefits (ie more money locally, large scale investment) a large scale development project brings and instead see the life long harm it can do to those affected by it - those in real need of development funding.\n\nAmir's comments are inline with the supreme courts anyway. I just hope the ban acts effectively to highlight the issue even further, and perhaps go some way to moving society away from corrupt 'bully boy' politics and towards democracy powered by the votes of the people and not the votes of the rupee.\n\nThanks for highlighting the issue. I live in the UK and I'm glad to learn something new.
690772
Its good that India keeps supporting the Tibetan exiles, but Tibet's days have been numbered... July 1 to be exact.  This is when the new railway will be open, forever linking China with Lhasa.  As it becomes cheaper for chinese to migrate into tibet, they will, and if ever later Tibet is given the chance to vote for its freedom, it will be majority Chinese immigrants.\n\nI have never been to Tibet, but I have met some tibetans, and there are mixed feelings about the relationship with China.  Some feel strongly about independence, human rights, and the sort.  But some argue that China has helped the Tibetans better integrate into the modern world, better education, better economic situation.\n\nI really don't like China's policy of forcing trading partners to agree to the "One-China Policy" which denounces Tibetan, Taiwanese, or Xinjiang independence.  China's just so big and has so many people that it can produce cheaper than anyone else.  Our western countries, the "beacons of democracy" of the world, would rather have cheap chinese products than stand up for the freedom of Tibet ("Xizang province of China"), East Turkestan ("Xinjiang province of China"), and Taiwan
43453
well, as of now, there are lots of activities that are going on, both overt and covert. \n\non the surface, you have a king holding on to power by a slim thread, a thread called the Royal Nepalese Army. a thread that can break anytime because after all the soldiers too are humans and the way things are, a potential revolutionary situation is in the making....sdnt wonder if there are already cracks in the army. \n\nalso we have the maoists who control nearly two-thirds of the country and only stopping short of storming the capital and taking power because of the big neighbour by the side, India, which has got its own maoist insurgency and India will not be too happy to see a communist country come up so close to borders. so that is a consideration. \n\nthe political (democratic) party, i think have lost the people more or less, so the people dont have any place to go except the maoists or the royalists....\n\nwhether the maoists are good or bad (to put very simplistically)is irrelevant, what is relevant is that the king is on his last legs (the fact that people are coming out against him openly in a place where kings were once revered as incarnation of God, is proof enough of his complete loss of authority) and may come crashing down soon....as to what will happen after that, depends on the tussle of will between maoists, the neutral people inside nepal and India and  China to an extent.\n\nvery interesting days ahead i am sure!!!
375979
During 1961 China attacked India and acquired part of Kashmir and NEFA (presently Arunachal Pradesh). Apart from that Pakistan (which was occupied by Pakistan during 1948) gave portion of Kashmir (known as Aksai Chin) to China.\n\nThis is how China is holding major part of Kashmir.
864892
It is not the end of imperialism in China since Macao returned later\n\n20/12/1999
306610
Yeah...this power struggle thing really gets to me too...Unfortunately we as a species have not yet reached a higher conciseness...although some of us are well on our way(including you by the sound of things) and struggle over this territory or that one has been going on since man kind stopped nomadic migration and started up with agriculture and ,,,this plot of land belongs to me and that plot of land belongs to you,...until we find a way to rise above this as a species, I do not see any real hope of improvement!
858934
British businessman, it will do a lot for their political and economic profile - so with their record on human rights they should not have been given it. They are a worse nation than South Africa were when boycotted and giving the olympics to them is very wrong it shows a very poor memory from the world on how China treats its people.
863637
Gandhigiri is the only solution.\nWe should gift the Arunachal pradesh, bihar, kashmir and nagaland to china.\nWe should not have sucha plague like states in india.\nChina will definitely give us Tibet in replacement.