Sadly, India’s policy has been disappointing in contemporary history (arguably, India used to hold certain positions that were admirable,such as the stance on Palestine– until the BJP came along).

India, though, has recently said that it will stop sending ammo and arms to either the Burmese junta or Sri Lankan government (sorry I cannot fact-check this tidbit; internet connection is shoddy, Firefox tabs not yet implemented!!)

I’m not entirely sure as to the relevance of what the Hindu is like as a paper, as I don’t think I referenced it once.

I agree the communists in India deserve criticism for their stance towards China (and their actions in general, which I regard as endlessly counter-productive), I just don’t know a great deal about the subject.

Also shameful is the behaviour of India’s Commies who have expectedly parroted the Beijing line. Yechury and Bardhan have spoken only like Commies can.

Among the Indian leaders who spoke up to criticise India’s Tibet policy let us not forget Dr. Ambedkar.

Rohin what you dub the “right-wing” of India is a bit player in India’s politics. It is the Commies and the “left-feudals” like the DMK dynasty in Tamil Nadu, the JD(S) dynasty in Karnataka, and the many dynasties with in the Congress that prevail. Nepal too has joined the commie tamasha after the Indian Commie supported terrorists – Prachanda, Bhattarai & Co., have become powerful. That is why Nepal is caving in to the China, whose medium term plan is to gobble up Nepal.

In general politians act in what they perceive as the electorates’ understanding of the electorates’ own interest. Its a positive feed back, where at first a little pump priming is required. Plant a few simple ideas that sort of make sense and then you can build on that. Nixon kicked it off with the idea that China was just one huge market that US Corp could sell goods and services to and so defeat the USSR. Now that sounds great to the American publics’ ear – apease and convert one set of communists to defeat another. But the flaw is that China is just too poor to afford any American made products and services, and that the situation was engineered to allow US corp to actually use Chinese labour to make US goods for sale in the US and whenever Chinese human rights were brought up, they complainants were quickly slapped down as they might endager US access the huge Chinese market !! All codswollop. There is no Chinese market for US goods and services. This applies to the UK as well, and I’m afraid I puked when I heard Gordon Brown in China refer to our relationship with China in terms of it being good for British “Consumers”. I’m not a consumer – I’m a citizen.

All too late now – as we are addicted to cheap Chinese goods. Where would McDonalds be without the cheap toys its sells with the ‘children’s meal’ thrown in for free. Think of the unemployment in our retail sector if they didn’t have cheap things to sell!

Luckily the Chinese print “Made in China” on things so I just leave them on the shelves , but I am running out of socks!! I suppose I’ll have to wear sandals soon!

Thank God for Taiwan, but now it gets most of its electronic hardware from China – arghhh.

A small step – I’ll just boycott any company in the UK that has the Berlin 2008 Games logo on it. Now I feel much better.

It’s a sorry mess we are in and now the Chinese have all the dollars as well . Just biding their time until US Corp and HBOS et al goes begging for money. Any time soon.

My bunker is not deep enough.

Justforfun

And from what I understand the opportunities for a just settlement for the Tibetans are decreasing year upon year: the Chinese are attempting to systematically undermine Tibetan culture and society in all sorts of ways, including through engineering massive demographic shifts. The situation has many, often eery parallels to the situation of Palestine — the major difference being our responsibility towards the Palestinians is much greater. In both cases I think

KL’s got some good points. and isn’t the USA’s national debt a factor here?

[1] China has no market for mongers of the West to dig gold there;
[2] China has no over $650 billions cash reserves;
[3] US is not in deep financial trouble at this very moment & in need of the super cheap goods from PRC; &
[4] Tibet were Israel.

So, my friends, bite your lips & accept the reality!!