RSS wants India to have ‘tough and muscular policy’ against China

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RSS wants India to have ‘tough and muscular policy’ against China
Updated: Apr 04, 2017 07:11 IST

By Smriti Kak Ramachandran

HT PhotoRSS brass has pushed the BJP-led NDA government to recalibrate its ties with China, and assume a more aggressive stance. (HT Photo)
India needs a new muscular ‘China Policy,’ covering economic and diplomatic ties, and to amend its existing trade deficit with the neighbour, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) declared at its annual meet in Coimbatore last month, sources said.

BJP’s ideological fount is unhappy with China stalling India’s move to impose a UN ban on Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar, blocking New Delhi’s bid to join the Nuclear Supplier’s Group and pursuing business interests in Pakistan- Occupied Kashmir.


According to sources, at the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the RSS brass decided to push the BJP-led NDA government to recalibrate its ties with China, and assume a more aggressive stance.

“China has over the years not reciprocated India’s friendly overtures and continues to dictate terms. A recent example is the warning it gave on the Dalai Lama’s Arunachal Pradesh visit. There is a need to overhaul India’s China policy,” a senior functionary said.

The RSS wants China to be a critical foreign policy priority for the government, especially since Beijing has not changed its stance on Arunachal Pradesh and also because it continues to invest in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) despite New Delhi’s reservations.

During Chinese President Xi Jingping’s 2014 visit to New Delhi, both sides had agreed to collaborate in 12 areas, which envisaged Beijing investing $20 billion in infrastructure over five years.

The RSS , however, is unhappy with the ‘lopsided’ economic ties India shares with China. The Sangh brass has given its economic wing — Swadesh Jagran Manch (SJM)— the mantle to carry out a year-long drive against Chinese goods.

SJM national convener Ashwani Mahajan told HT that the outfit has flagged concerns about India’s growing dependence on manufactured goods from China. “From rail coaches to toys, from electronic goods to raw material for pharmaceutical, India is relying way too much on China. How will this help initiative help Make in India or Skill India?” he said.

https://www.google.co.in/amp/www.hi...t-china/story-wBUYAGYcy73jQadis0ZLeM_amp.html
 

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muscular policy requires military muscle . we need to raise military expenditure to 3 percent of GDP .
 

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muscular policy requires military muscle . we need to raise military expenditure to 3 percent of GDP .
No it first requires economic muscle.

With our minuscule manufacturing and increasing number of contracts going to China for our infrastructure, I don't really see how we are going to corner them if this continues.

China just doesn't have enough substitutes in India even though at a global level there are many. Indian government must alternatively see how we can engage Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Poland, Canada, Germany and South Korea in infrastructure related projects.

They are slightly costlier but it is better than over-reliance on one country.
 

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The RSS , however, is unhappy with the ‘lopsided’ economic ties India shares with China. The Sangh brass has given its economic wing — Swadesh Jagran Manch (SJM)— the mantle to carry out a year-long drive against Chinese goods.
SJM needs to create forums to promote manufacturing.

Just stopping to buy from China isn't going to change the landscape. Instead, substitute products prices will go higher and cause chaos.

They should host more manufacturing conferences and awareness summits and become a business-enabling sovereign fund for manufacturers in India.

Just having meetings and discussing endlessly won't solve anything.
 

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Our weight is increasing and we need to learn proportionate to our weight. We have always hit bellow the weight after the exit of Indira gandhi. Recently we have adopted some pragmatic policies which is very good. Pakistan is literally crying for dialogues.
 

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Our weight is increasing and we need to learn proportionate to our weight. We have always hit bellow the weight after the exit of Indira gandhi. Recently we have adopted some pragmatic policies which is very good. Pakistan is literally crying for dialogues.
But I am a bit apprehensive about our recent closeness with the US, especially under Mr Toupee.

He's proven to be a loose cannon and a motormouth. While Hillary was worse off than this guy, he's bloody unpredictable.

One day he roughs up China, the other day he withdraws. One day he says he will target North Korea, the next day he launches missiles at Syria.

I don't know what tactic PM Modi would have to adopt to balance this out, especially since we are having a more aggressive China now than ever.

We cannot have an unpredictable power country sitting along the corners.

Putin won't take sides between India and China. Never.

Toupee won't risk his neck even for Brits now, forget us.

That puts us in a very tight spot unless and until we help Japanese get out of a tight self-imposed complex and encourage them to militarise while building up more strategic depth with Vietnam as well.
 

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Interesting article by Japan Times

India adopts new approach to muscle-flexing China

China and India are on the cusp of becoming two of the world’s top three economies. Various economic surveys have predicted that while China can emerge as the world’s leading economy, India has the potential to become the third-largest economy by 2020.

Sino-Indian relations have always bordered on mistrust because of outstanding border disputes, an unfortunate historical legacy. India, after the debacle of a brief war with China in 1962, has been cautious when dealing with its neighbor. India has always approached the “China threat” with timidity.

One of the reasons for underplaying the threat is probably a lack of military preparedness. It certainly didn’t help that a former Indian defense minister, in a government led by the Congress party, brought the purchase of all critical military equipment to a virtual halt, as he was afraid of sullying his image. Previously, India had been rocked by scandals — large-scale kickbacks involving important players at the time of defense purchases.

However, with Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister, the country now seems to be more confident in dealing with China. Under Modi’s leadership, a two-pronged strategy has evolved: India is continuing to engage with its neighbors while at the same time taking steps to modernize its armed forces.

A few recent developments in the region have become a cause for concern in India. The U.S. Department of Defense, in the 2016 edition of its annual report on military and security developments involving China, expressed concern about the sudden increase of Chinese troops near the Indian border. The report also mentioned that China, with the connivance of Pakistan, has set up a base in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

India has viewed these developments, and also China’s investments in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal, with concern. Together, China’s actions are seen as a deliberate attempt to encircle India.

For its part, India is reaching out to its neighbors to prevent any change in their foreign policy that results in a bias toward China, as India has maintained healthy and cordial relations with all its neighbors except Pakistan.

In another worrying development, China managed to block India’s membership in the Nuclear Supplier Group, in spite of the overwhelming support that India received from most members, including the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. That maneuver has not gone down well with India, especially as China’s interference came just when Sino-Indian relations seemed to be improving after an exchange of visits by their top leaders. Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to have developed a personal chemistry, and they had pledged to work closely to improve the bilateral relationship.

China watchers know that Beijing has always been guided by self-interest when it comes to foreign policy. China’s support for Pakistan in particular — supplying it with defense equipment, investing in ports, building nuclear reactors and, above all, supplying Islamabad with nuclear material in contravention of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — has the potential to destabilize peace in the region.

China’s other foreign policy decisions of late follow a similar pattern of seeking self-interest at the cost of regional peace. Beijing has been aggressively pursuing reclamation projects in the disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea in spite of protests by Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. The Philippines took the matter to an arbitral tribunal to challenge China’s actions. In response, China not only questioned the court’s jurisdiction in the dispute but also refused to participate in the hearings.

The arbitral tribunal, selected by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, ruled in the Philippines’ favor. In a landmark judgment, the arbitration court has ruled that China had no historical claim over the waters of the South China Sea, and, therefore, it has violated the Philippines’ sovereign rights in its exclusive economic zone. The tribunal further held that Chinese law enforcement vessels had unlawfully created a serious risk of collision when they physically obstructed Philippine vessels from accessing disputed waters.

The U.S., unhappy with China’s aggressive designs to develop the disputed islands, had twice sent warships close to Chinese-held features in the Spratlys in the South China Sea. Washington wants to send a clear message to China to stop its illegal attempts to capture the disputed areas.

The U.S. has also approached India to participate in a joint naval exercise in the South China Sea in order to dissuade China from pursuing its aggressive designs in the region. The U.S. wants to form a coalition by bringing India, Japan and others on board to put pressure on China.

India realizes that no economic development can take place in the absence of overall peace in the region. It is for this reason that it has so far refused to align with the U.S. to counter China, as New Delhi feels such a strategy may prove counterproductive.

Moreover, India does not want to open another front with China, as it is already preoccupied with dealing with its hostile neighbor on its western border. India shares a 4,057-long-km border with China; except for a few stray incidents at the instigation of Chinese soldiers, the border has remained relatively peaceful since the 1962 war.

Under Modi’s leadership, India has taken effective steps in securing its borders with both China and Pakistan by deploying more troops and equipping them with modern weapons. There is a growing realization both in China and Pakistan that India now has an assertive leader who will not brook any nonsense.

China is wary of any strategic alliance between the U.S. and India. As a result, Beijing recently sent its foreign minister, Wang Yi, to New Delhi to persuade India to not to get entangled in the South China Sea dispute. In return, China has hinted that it is open to reconsidering India’s membership in the Nuclear Supplier Group.

India needs to be aware of the changing realities in the region. The best response is to modernize its armed forces to be ready for any eventuality, but at the same time continue to engage with its neighbors. The political leadership in India, so far, has avoided aligning with the U.S. or Japan to counter China, as it feels such a strategy would antagonize China, which would not be in India’s best interests. China, for its part, should not view India’s restraint as a sign of weakness.

The ability of India and China to be global powers hinges on forming close economic ties and continuing efforts to engage with one another. This is the only way to improve the trust between the two countries.

In this context, there is an urgent need for New Delhi to recalibrate Indian foreign policy in keeping with the changing geopolitical landscape in the region. It will not be in India’s interests to align with any particular country, and it needs to pursue its own independent foreign policy to avoid any potential conflict in the region.

This is truly a watershed moment for both China and India, as they embark on their journeys to become global powers. It is in their interest to remove mistrust by closely collaborating with one another.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion...w-approach-muscle-flexing-china/#.WOd8s0Xfpkg

Our then political masters, the Congress have been playing footsie with the Chinese for decades bowing to their diktats. Modi has turned the ship around somewhat. More needs to be done. But since political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, we must arm ourselves to the teeth to be politically and militarily ready to counter an aggressive China.
 

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WTO Permits sanctions under security clause. We should impose 100% customs duty on all non-essential Chinese imports like toys, steel etc
 

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muscular policy requires military muscle . we need to raise military expenditure to 3 percent of GDP .
Arent you putting the cart befofe the horse! The only way to put PRC in its place is by putting our economy on steroids.Only a double digit growth rate over a thirty odd years will save us.Military muscle will be a pipe dream without economic growth.PRC exerts incredible influence in the world economy and India .....well India does not matter ......
Pity for we have some of the most talented people.And pity us for we have been led by netas without any brains at all except Modi.
 

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Every indian wnats the same, even small,countries like taiwan show middle finger to the copy paste people but indian govt has continuosly lived in a false hope to ment the ties with china, they must understnd what chinese are, they have openly supported terrorist in the un who have killed our civilians and security personnels, have opposed our nsg bid, flooded our markets with their cheap wand worthless goods and have constantly irked us with their transgressions in ladakh and IOR, we should pay them back in kind.
 

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No it first requires economic muscle..
YES

and one great way to do that is via education and the school-unversity syste

RSS need to stop praying into irrelevent petty issues and tell their members children to study hard and do well in school

keep upgarding the school system and universities too .... give more funding to tech institutes which are performing well ....encourage them to go for innovation and patents

improve the industry-university nexus so that our tecchies get a real picture of the industrial world instead of just academic knowledge and then getting a shock wneh going out into the real world

finally for heavens sake get the make ininda going a a faster rate and encourage NRI's who have perfore well to return home now that the western world is getting sck of and becoming more unwelcoming to immigrants
 

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YES

and one great way to do that is via education and the school-unversity syste

RSS need to stop praying into irrelevent petty issues and tell their members children to study hard and do well in school

keep upgarding the school system and universities too .... give more funding to tech institutes which are performing well ....encourage them to go for innovation and patents

improve the industry-university nexus so that our tecchies get a real picture of the industrial world instead of just academic knowledge and then getting a shock wneh going out into the real world

finally for heavens sake get the make ininda going a a faster rate and encourage NRI's who have perfore well to return home now that the western world is getting sck of and becoming more unwelcoming to immigrants
RSS run schools have pretty good standards of education. Their members are fierce and dedicated. I personally know friends' kids studying in such schools which are directly or indirectly affiliated with RSS.

Just because they talk of native cultures doesn't mean they are backward in mentality.

Education as a whole is a mess in India due to the following reasons:

- Poor focus on R&D.
- Poor focus on holistic development.
- Poor focus on questioning by children.
- Insecure mindset of teachers, deans and professors.
- Seat limitations due to casteist reservations, forcing kids to cram more and spill out rather than actually learn something.
- Terrible course curriculum design at school and even colleges. IITs, IIScs and IIMs don't produce half the valued research papers compared to even countries like Malaysia and Thailand who have their universities among top 100 despite being so much lesser in capabilities than India.

- Highly politicised education and lack of 'getting back to the roots'. India's innovation was at its pinnacle during the vedic times and the times at least 1800 years ago from today. It was because of research, open-mindedness and integrity of educators.

Personally speaking, I feel that we just need to mix and match the education system of Finland for primary and secondary education and Russia for tertiary education.

Russian scientific studies are amazing.

A family member of mine enrolled in the Arkhangelsk University in Russia and the education system there is simply mind-blowing. Especially engineering sciences.
 

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.family member of mine enrolled in the Arkhangelsk University in Russia and the education system there is simply mind-blowing. Especially engineering sciences.
Arkhangelsk ?? my goodness .....that must be one heck of a climate !!
Tough kid ....the climate alone is an education in itself ..... plus learning russian
That young man or woman will come back with some real experiece !
 

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Who is RSS to decide our country's foreign policy? Yeh desh RSS ke baap ki jaagir nahi hai.
 

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2016 ..



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Under present administration policy is indeed different ..
 

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China scales down offensive against India
Saibal Dasgupta| TNN | Updated: Apr 18, 2017, 12.13 PM IST
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BEIJING: At least three Indian ministers, including foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, are expected to visit China to attend the upcoming BRICS summit in the country's Xiamen city. The visits come amid repeated Chinese warning+ that bilateral relationship had been badly damaged by the recent visit+ of the Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh.

The official website of BRICS has put up a detailed schedule of meetings by ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. As a member, India is expected to attend all the meetings at the ministerial level from June, sources said.

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PM Narendra Modi is expected to attend the final summit in September. Finance minister Arun Jaitley, commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman and power minister Piyush Goyal are expected to visit China to attend minister-level meetings of BRICS and the meeting of its financing agency, the National Development Bank, in June and July. NSA Ajit Doval is also due to attend a security related meeting of BRICS, sources said.

In fact, China is already trying to soften its tone towards India and gradually take the focus away from the Dalai Lama controversy+ . China is keen to persuade India to participate in an international conference on its One Belt, One Road (OBOR) programme in May, and make a success of the BRICS meetings.

Earlier, the Chinese foreign ministry had accused India of encouraging the Tibetan leader to play politics in Arunachal Pradesh, which borders China's Tibet region, and threatening its core interests in Tibet. The ministry's comments on the issue were far less aggressive on Monday.

"We urge the Indian side to observe its commitment on Tibet related issues and implement our consensus namely they should not use Dalai Lama to undermine the interests of China. Only in this way can we create a good atmosphere to the settlement of the boundary question," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang, said on Monday. He reiterated that the visit will have "a negative impact for bilateral relations and also the boundary question negotiations".


China is almost desperate to ensure Indian presence+ in the Belt and Road Forum, which will be attended by heads of states from 20 countries. Beijing also expects British PM Teressa May to attend. Most of the other attendees will be leaders of countries like Pakistan which depend heavily on China to build infrastructure. India's presence will add much credibility to the conference.

India is reluctant to join because one section of OBOR, the China Pakistan Economic Corridor passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and threatens Indian claim over the area. New Delhi feels China is trying to legitimize Pakistan's claim over the area by constructing infrastructure in the disputed area.

Sources said India is unlikely to participate in the forum until China agrees to make a clear statement that it does not support Pakistan's claim over the disputed PoK area. The name, China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) itself gives credibility to Pakistan's illegal control over the disputed area, Indian sources said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ensive-against-india/articleshow/58231787.cms

Chinese fire breathing Dragon's fire DOWSED by determined India.
 

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