ROLLING
RED CARPET TO CONVERT
INDIA
INTO A COLONY OF CHINA
The editorial of leading English
daily of India, Times of India dated
29th May of 2009 about Aung San Kyi contains a paragraph which I would like to
quote:
“ We have just concluded
a spectacular democratic exercise and are still showing it off to the world
.But unfortunately when it comes to speaking up for the defenders of democracy
in Myanmar our voice drops to a whisper. To put it bluntly India’s foreign policy with regards to Myanmar is
caught in a trap. We chose to play tootsie with the military regime in the hope
of getting access to Myanmar’s
natural resources and to secure our north-east from infiltration. We have
achieved a degree of understanding on border infiltration but have been well
eclipsed by China as far as
exerting influence in Myanmar
is concerned. We have meanwhile let down the people of Myanmar in
their quest for democracy. If India
is to make amends, this new Government must redraw India’s
approach map to Myanmar.
Given our aspiration towards a greater role, New Delhi under the foreign ministry would do
well to recalibrate its approach towards our neighbors, especially towards
ruthless dictators whom nobody in the world particularly likes”
Tamils thank Times of
India. The newspaper instead of dictator or neighbor had used plural which
indirectly indicates the tin-pot dictator of Srilanka. These comments open a
Pandora’s Box. Indian foreign policy had let down its own citizens in past.
We Indian citizens, who
rediscover the past, are baffled at the statement tabled in Indian Parliament
on July 23 1974 by then Indian External Affairs Minister Mr.Swaran Singh [Lok
sabha debates cols 186-201] for Re-Agreement between India and Srilanka on boundary in
historic waters between the two countries and related matters. India must be
aware what its own representative sought before UN Sub-committee on the need to
extend its maritime belt in view of thorium find in Indian territorial waters.
When we had national interest to extend our maritime belt, only a nincompoop
would opt for an agreement that will hand over Indian island of Katcha Tivu
to Srilanka by way of this agreement.
We would like to remind
that one Member of Indian Parliament, speaking on the floor of the house on
23rd July 1974 raised a point or order. Mr.P.K.Deo, Member from Kalahandi of
Indian State of Orissa said “Nowhere the Indian Constitution provide for
cession of even an inch of Indian Territory.
All the Revenue records of Madras Government, a state of India,
corroborate that Katcha Tivu was part of former Ramnad zamindary and an
integral part of this country. So under no circumstances the Government has got
any power under the Indian Constitution to cede even an inch of our country. A
few days back the Coco islands which is part of Andaman group of islands
belonging to India was ceded
to Burma.
Now it is Katcha Tivu. It is utter contempt and disrespect shown to the House
[Indian Parliament] by not taking the house into confidence and facing us with
a fait accompli”
The handing over of Coco
island by the foreign policy experts of seventies to Myanmar had paved way for
China obtaining its in lease from Myanmar and to build a harbour there apart
from installing Russian made radars and satellites to spy on Indian Missile
programme operated from Orissa, a state of India just facing Coco islands in
the west of the Bay of Bengal. Sitting entrenched in Eastern side of Bay of
Bengal that too just 40 nautical miles away from Indian Territory of Andaman
Nicobar islands, China had
established its access and control of Bay of Bengal.
The intelligent foreign policy experts who had no broad vision but had only a
thread opened the gateway of Bay of Bengal to
the Chinese dragon.
Dr.Ram Manohar Lohia, a
Socialist Member of Parliament and contemporary of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru urged
that India should extend her
frontier to the Yarlung Zangbo River,
which he refers as Brahmaputra; only then
Indian troops would be able to meet the Chinese on more equal terms as far as
physical conditions are concerned. While such opinions were aired, who took
decisions, let us go back to the past pages of history.
“The office of the
Military Intelligence was almost closed down by Nehru. Anyway the Intelligence
Bureau was pursuing the guidelines laid down by Nehru in his 1954 directive “with
single minded effort’ in this Mr.Mullick and the Intelligence Bureau he headed
apparently had the support of the Prime Minister, steady and equally
single-minded. As was not the case with the Intelligence Bureau’s cooperation
with instructions to paper nor did he let even his Cabinet colleagues or senior
officials into the secrets of his understanding with his Intelligence Director
“
These passages quoted
indicate when and how India’s
foreign policy took the diversion from cabinet accountability and collective
responsibility and became a tool for the first among equals namely the Prime
Minister of India to act through agencies bypassing other layers in democratic
set up. Until 1959 border security was the exclusive concern of the Home
Ministry and especially the Intelligence Bureau. Intelligence Bureau was under
Home Ministry till 1970 and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi separated it from
Home Ministry and attached to Prime Ministers Office. It is not which Ministry
controlled Intelligence Bureau that forms the theme of our debate. Cabinets
were kept in dark. Cabinet colleagues were sidelined. Defense Secretary or Home
Secretary was ignored. IB playing the tunes of Prime Minister started by Nehru
is the starting point where India’s
foreign policy went in wrong direction committing blunder after blunder.
This culminated in Indian
Cabinet headed by Mr.Manmohan Singh brushing aside his cabinet colleagues in
the cabinet, misguided by National Security Adviser an extra-cabinet authority
not accountable to public or Parliament, committing blunder after blunder in India’s
Srilankan policy. The Himalayan blunder is joining hands with China and
Pakistan and trying to get a certificate of good conduct to the worst ever
barbarian dictator that history had even seen in neither past nor will tolerate
one in future. Indian citizens, of Tamil ethnicity, fishermen who were fishing
in Indian waters or contiguous waters were killed now and then, and Indian
Prime Minister who should have sent Indian navy in hot pursuit of those killers
from Srilanka, was busy pursuing single mindedly to take revenge for Rajiv
Gandhi’s murder. Now having accomplished his revenge mission, Indian Prime
Minister is duty bound to take revenge for the killings of Indian Tamils. The
least he can do is to take the matter to International Court of Justice seeking
compensation from Srilanka. Indian citizens, [who are not terrorists] hundreds
of them, had been killed by Srilankan navy, and India shakes the blood soaked
hands along with China, putting the conscience of India into suspended
animation and making Mahatma Gandhi turn in his grave in shame.
“India and China are now members of the
Financial Stability Board, the apex institution to monitor global risks of
financial crisis. Their voting shares in the International Monetary Fund will
also be slightly increased through an accelerated quota reform process. However
post-reform the USA will
retain its de facto veto power with a 17 percent share and the US, EU and Japan will control 53 percent of
IMF shares. Individually the shares of US, UK,
France and Japan will still
be larger than China’s
share of fewer than 4 percent.” Hence China had planned a new offensive
according to Professor of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
Mr.Sudipto Mundle.
“Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor
of the Chinese Central Bank on the eve of G-20 summit suggested that dollar
should be replaced with SDR’s as the new reserve currency. The huge dollar
reserves held by Central Banks and other global investors would be severely
eroded if the dollar were to suddenly depreciate. Yet these investors cannot
easily diversify away from the dollar since this itself would trigger dollar
depreciation. The Chinese are particularly concerned, an estimated 1 trillion
dollars of their total reserves of around 2 trillion are held in dollar asset.
The SDR exchange rate is a weighted average of exchange rates of the major
convertible currencies. Accordingly under Zhou’s proposals, China and other
countries could convert their reserves from dollars to SDR’s at current
exchange rates without any erosion in their value. Implementing such a proposal
would also mark the end of the dollar as reserve currency.” This is the game
plan of China
which has let the cat out of its bag. The New Indian Finance Minister cannot
distribute rasagollahs over his assumption of office. Indians expect, what is
he going to do? By joining hands with China
to butcher Tamils and to bury the genocide before UN Human Rights Council, India had shown
that it follows Chinese footsteps. If India
treads the Chinese path, the Left parties of India will be rejoicing. If China launches SDR missiles to strike at the
Dollar regime, India
had to toe Chinese line, if Indo-China-Srilanka partnership to ethnic cleansing
of Tamils is a forerunner to such cooperation.
USA realizing the
Chinese designs had been urging India
to sign End-use Monitoring Agreement, Communications Interoperability and
Security Memorandum agreement, and Logistics Support Agreement. China causes grave concern for USA, hence USA
urges India
to sign these pacts. China
had become emboldened to say to USA
to concentrate on western Pacific and China will look after eastern
Pacific. Pacific Command Chief Admiral Timothy J Keating had recently held
discussions with the extra-cabinet authority the National Security Adviser of
India and Foreign Secretary of India,
the duo that dances to Srilankan’s tunes.
Are we with USA
or are we with China?
Is USA a grave danger to the
territorial integrity of India
or is China, the aggressor
who claims our Indian
State of Arunachal
Pradesh will be a threat with high magnitude? China
hand encircled India with
tie-ups starting from Myanmar
to Srilanka, Maldives
to Pakistan and Bangladesh.
With harbours in all these countries carefully built from 1990, China had acquired a might India cannot
challenge. If China could
suggest to USA to divide
Pacific Ocean as eastern zone and western zone between them, will it not say to
India confine to your coast
in Bay of Bengal and from Myanmar China will control half of Bay
of Bengal. Will not China
with harbours in Pakistan
and Maldives suffocate
Indian presence in Arabic
Ocean? Sitting in
Srilanka’s southern tip China
could block passage to Bay of Bengal and from Myanmar control Malacca Straits. India which
supports Srilanka hoping it will shield its geo-political interests will cut a
sorry figure in days ahead. Srilanka needed the support of India only to
finish the Tamil demand for homeland. Helping Srilanka to crush Tamil freedom
struggle China had succeeded
in sowing distrust towards India
in Tamil minds. Each and every step China
plans is to establish it as Super power of Asia.
It is the neo-colonial power which will colonize Myanmar and Srilanka. In Indian
state of Bihar, the influx of Chinese women to
marry Indians born in Buddha’s land is silently establishing a Chino-Indian
population like early Anglo-Indians.
Our foreign policy must
be debated in Indian Parliament. Few individuals should not decide the foreign
policy of a continent like India
with 100 crore population. Ours is Indian Union, though it became unitary due
to the trauma of partition, it must be borne that Indian States have a right to
shape India’s
foreign policy. Consensus can emerge in our National Integration Council,
debates in Parliament can offer constructive course corrections, and Cabinet
should not be bypassed, few people should not be shouldered with crafting
nation’s foreign policy, however super brains they may be. But seeing how China
had outwitted us by encircling India, and within India opening a Red corridor
Nepal to Andhra Pradesh where Maoists rule the roost, it becomes evident that
only fools will join hands with China, and those evil brains that want India
again to become a colony, this time a colony of China will only get conduct
certificates from Communist parties and not from Indians with common sense.
N.Nandhivarman
General Secretary Dravida
Peravai
Courtesy: Tamil National
Network
