Mikeda, Can you illustrate on all the points - specifically about India's part in killing Chou En Lai and the connection between Dalai Lama and Trombay.
Off couse modern India and China were in each other's throats - when both had the possibility when they were young countries to be big powers. And it will get accentuated even further if India has even a modicum of success in the immediate future economically. I can rationalize some zealots continuing to believe in the make believe of Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai in this manner: Some, especially followers of the Nehru family do not want the whiff of the mention of the unmitigated disaster that was 1962. How would his legacy be protected then? And then some (actually quite a few) commies (communist sympathisers) are such rabid supporters of China they would rather support a Chinese bomb than an Indian bomb and would probably clap in glee if the Chinese red army were to march down the Himalayas and take over the country. This idealogy is widespread amongst the communists, socialists and others of the ilk. If something bad has happened - they want to hide it because exposing it means exposing the fact that we have kowtowed to the Chinese time and again against national interests. I expect - if India gains more economic and political strength (and China already has) - to have more un - "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai" events. All I hope is that our political powers do not try to meddle somewhere (as in the Dalai Lama thing) where we do not have the strength to leverage - as they are so prone to doing. Rajib --- mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --------------------------------- Silk Road route Assamnet can dicuss if the above name is real -or has been cooked up by Zealots trying to prove that nothing bad happened between India and China ever. That India did not have any part in the blowing up of its own plane near Hongkong to kill Chou-en-Lai. That giving the safe haven to Dalai Lama and co in retun of Trombay atom bomb facility never happened, that China still claiming all of Arunachal is only a historical blip. Silk Route was the route direct from Xian to Tashkent.Nowhere near Tibet and Sikkim. mm --------------------------------- From: Pradip Kumar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], assam@assamnet.org Subject: [Assam] India and China reopen Silk Road Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:00:24 -0700 (PDT) India and China reopen Silk Road NET News Network Guwahati, July 6: Asian giants India and China opened a Himalayan border pass to trade on Thursday, 44 years after a brutal war shut the ancient Silk Road route. As local music from either side of the border played through the chilly mist, Indians and Tibetans -- in traditional costumes -- joined the festive atmosphere, crossing over to talk and share bread, sweets and tea. Scores of businessmen queued to complete formalities before crossing the border post at Nathu La pass -- "the pass of the listening ear" -- to visit newly built markets on either side after the formal opening ceremony. "Today is a historic day," said Pawan Chamling, chief minister of India's Sikkim state, connected by the pass to Tibet. Although smuggling in the area has been rife, local businessmen are keen to take advantage of the new opportunities opening the pass will create in the remote area. Ties between India and China, the two most populous nations, were dogged by mutual suspicion for almost three decades after a border war in 1962, until surging trade and economic ties pushed political disputes into the backseat. The reopening of the pass, part of the historic Silk Road -- a network of trails that connected ancient China with India, Western Asia and Europe -- occurred on the birthday of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan and Buddhist leader in exile in India. It came days after Beijing linked the Tibetan capital of Lhasa with a railway and is seen as another move by China to help modernize the long-isolated region. Some analysts feel closer economic bonding would also eventually help the two leave the border row behind. "Initiatives like these will slowly change the perception of our two peoples about the border dispute, which has remained the most vexed problem," Sudheendra Kulkarni, a senior official in previous Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's office, wrote in the Sunday Express this week. "In hostility-free relations between two neighbors, borders unite -- not divide -- markets and peoples," he said. --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. 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