No way! No Rohangiya business. It should be purely commercial - money based transaction. If the existing demographics of that land include sizable number of Rohangiyas, we will take them in. No wholesale migration please.
I am not suggesting any migration. Just informing that the area under consideration may be heavily populated with the Rohingyas. Even in the case that this strip of land may not currently have many Rohingyas, once India starts these discussions, that land will naturally get heavily populated with the people whom nobody wants!
Myanmar was part of British India until 10 years before India achieved independence. They should actually be part of India.
If india becomes a rich country in 10 years, indian people will oppose that idea! Who wants another 60 millions people to share his benefits?
Myanmar is a poor country, but it doesn't know the value of their land. If there is any resource buried down there, $5b would be a peanut!
60 million people are nothing compared to the huge territorial and natural resource additions that will happen. Myanmar is a relatively resource rich country, and Nepal and Bhutan are India's cultural cultural cousins. So was China actually, until the CCP destroyed all traces of Buddhism from Chinese life.
The Burmese are also our cultural cousins, albeit not as close as Nepal or Bhutan. The problem is that Burmese territory has never been part of a greater "Indian" empire, besides the British Raj which was not an indigenous state and greatly disadvantaged the Burmese (even more so than the average Indian). In fact, the Burmese themselves once ruled large parts of what is now Northeast India. The Burmese have their own history and a strong sense of ethnic nationalism, so I am not sure if many will accept joining a Greater India. The only possibility might be if India becomes the semi-official "thakedar" of Buddhism and uses that to its advantage, since the Burmese are very staunch Buddhists, but that is extremely unlikely.
^^It may happen though if India declares itself a Buddhist Soviet Empire, eh?
That's the plan, yes.^^It may happen though if India declares itself a Buddhist Soviet Empire, eh?
Let's just agree to consider East Asia as China's sphere of influence and South Asia as India's, kapish? 
Why not annex Vietnam too and have a direct access to sea ?
So? At least we are offering money for the land, and not trying to lay claim to land based on centuries old historical maps and documents like the Chinese do. What is the problem?
The Alaska purchase is one of the most famous precedents that comes to mind. No one could have envisaged at the time of the purchase, that there would be an ideology called communism that would engulf Russia in a few decades. Yet, the US made that purchase with great foresight. Americans of the 20th century should thank their ancestors for having the foresight and vision to make such a purchase.
