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Well, what we are discussing here is: India doesn't have the money to build world class infrasturcture here.
Again i have to disagree with you. India does not need the money. What India needs is expertise and partnership and is even willing to do it at a premium. India has world class infrastructure (some will say not much) but it needs more. There is a huge market for infrastructure that is coming up in short-term, medium term, and long-term each with its own advancements and benefits. India is not known to do things fast (that i cannot disagree). Also PRC is not known to build high quality - technology leading world class infrastructure that is being offered by other states to India. The discussions are what is ROI. You cannot find that in the world today where people are discussing such high ROI(s).
So, you agree that India need foreign financial support for its infrastructure plan.
No i do not agree that India needs financial support. India has money (not unlimited) to budget for infrastructure (albeit at a slow pace). If you encompass that with speed - foreign financial support will make the infrastructure development faster - yes. If you encompass that with partnership - foreign financial support will make the infrastructure increase relationship with the foreign country - yes.
Yes, but no one has proposed the same scale as China.
PRC has a way to dramatize figures. Is PRC offering a line-of-credit. Is PRC offering development of roads. What is PRC offering.
Also are you sure that no one has proposed the same scale to PRC - even at better terms and better configuration. India and PRC will do business and more business in the future but it wont be at the cost of parameters that are important for one another. Also the world is globalized and many countries want to come to India to invest and many more will want to come in the future.
You raised the case of US deficit to support you argument, so I was telling that you are wrong. US doesn't need to worry about its deficit since it gets a world currency --US dollars, while India gets nothing! Who mentions RMB?
You have focused on deficit and not currency and this whole area is your own argument not mine (you seem to have a way of plucking at feathers until you find one that suits you). The reference to RMB and not USD was done on purpose. In any case there is more coherence and similarity between USD and INR compared to USD and RMB and also USA is not rely on its world dominant currency to be in deficit and further PRC is not having a surplus because it does not have a special currency (some might argue otherwise on RMB). Can you please enlighten everyone how countries with deficit is a means for you to standardize excellence if a country has no deficit (that you yourself had said).
Are you saying that only countries with surplus are excellent. Because India has deficit does not mean it is a failure. India has transparent figures and people are able to identify and analyse what is really going on. The whole country and everything in India must be a failure according to you because India is in deficit!!
Oh, now you know that PRC is a P5 UNSC member. Use your head instead of heart to think what that means.
Think about what Syria means to Russia and US-Israel relationship.
If you are equating the support Russia gives to Syria to PRC and Pakistan-North Korea that is difficult to comprehend. You would have to make a hugely convincing argument for that. Russia offered support to Syria not because it was anti-Israel and also not because it was anti-USA. Will Russia make the Syria a nuclear weapon state. Will Russia offer support to Syria to conduct raids and confront Israel inside its territory.
Also the Russians what they did in Syria they were labelled and positioned themselves well in the region. There was also a element of bringing peace in the region.
Again I ask please tell everyone what PRC thinks about Pakistan. Please share what is the quality of the relationship and also the quality of the interactions and quality of the collaboration. Is that what PRC wants to be labelled and have for themselves in the region (include North Korea in your analysis).
Yes, lots cheaper than deploying 300,000 our own troops and 400 J-11B in Tibet.
Thats for you to discuss with the Pakis when they come to ask for compensation since they have helped you save a lot. Also do not think they will not stop asking. They will continue to ask incessantly, persistently and for eternity. After-all in their mind what they have done for PRC is priceless. Do you know what happens when Pakistan does not get what it thinks in its mind it deserves.
The (better) leaders of PRC and the interlocutors of PRC that deal with the region and world would be thinking that and with a straight face and authentic truth are thinking that Pakis is not good and also Pakis is not good for PRC. That is comparatively and relatively speaking.
And you seem to be implying that PRC does not need Pakistan - because of [x] troops and [x] figthers. That alone makes the conclusion in the affirmative about what PRC thinks about the quality of the relationship and also the quality of the interactions and quality of the collaboration of Pakis.
Also do not think the Pakis have not incorporate that into their planning. There are many in Pakistan that think PRC only looks after its own interests even at the cost of Pakistan.