shom
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You are replied very efficiently by my friend ,,, also I dont reply to people who do not research before they post,,, this is an educated forum please abstain from posting self made data and history,,,Sigh.
This is exactly the sort of attitude that bothers me in contemporary Sino-Indian relations. Let's look at your points through a coolheaded light, shall we?
- India and China started off friends after 1950 and ended up going to war in 1962 after a Chinese surprise attack
This version of events conveniently ignores the fact that China warned India repeatedly, at ever-higher levels of government stretching all the way up to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, to desist from trying to unilaterally occupy land behind what India felt to be the rightful border in Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh. China warned India at a diplomatic level for over a half-a-year before finally attacking. And finally, after the war was done, China decided to withdraw to its own lines - does that imply to you that China has hatred for India? No, it's the essence of kabinettskrieg, or war as a hardheaded, cold, and realist policy move - not a total war driven by ideology or nationalism.
- China has a trade surplus with India, yet still controls Aksai Chin
In the same light, China could just as easily be bothered by Indian control of Arunachal Pradesh. And the trade deficit is an economic issue. Grow up and learn how to properly execute a national economic strategy instead of blaming outsiders for your own national government's inability to pass any substantive pro-growth reforms or assist Indian firms in cracking export markets abroad.
- China 'occupied' Tibet
Since when is this India's business? Does China get bothered on a quasi-official level when India 'occupies' Kashmir or kills Pakistanis and Naxalites?
- China is the only nation on Earth that wants war
What? India: 1999 Kargil? The Sundarji Doctrine? The US: Iraq 2003, an actual war? Saudi Arabia/Qatar: Libya, Syria, and Bahrain? Israel: Lebanon 2006? Even France was bombing Mali a few years ago. At least China doesn't go thousands of kms abroad in search of bombing targets.
- Indian racism
I have seen so many Indian posters on DFI talk about this or that supposed 'ethnic trait' of Chinese people (usually negative traits, mind you) that I have no other conclusion except to believe that the Indian posters here share a tacit racist background.
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Now that we've gotten your post out of the way, let's look at the root issue here: Nations disagree all the time. If you look at history, you'll see that nations all pursue their interests with the same level of social etiquette as an autistic kid on methamphetamine, which is to say not very much at all. Ergo, frictions are inevitable. Sometimes nations can get together when their interests coincide, but more often than not, nations have to compete.
But competition should not engender hatred. Nations can and should have differences - and they can and should work those differences out in a rational and mature fashion, instead of turning those frictions into full-on genocidal hate (as @Zero_Wing 's statements wishing earthquakes and diseases on Chinese people seem to imply.) This holds true even if relations get so bad that war erupts - war is not about hating the other guy and wanting to exterminate them, it's about wanting to achieve some policy goal or another. If the average Indian learns to view the world through the cold gray lens of rational realism instead of a passion that vacillates between 'bhai bhai' and 'let's go liberate Tibet', then Sino-Indian relations will be much more stable, and hence beneficial, over this coming century.
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