On Thursday 16 Nov 2006 10:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > China used the Arunachal Pradesh card just to keep the Indian side > sufficiently rattled. Plus, India just sent its new ambassador to PRC: > Nirupama Rao, and this is when the Chinese will make some sabre rattling > sounds to keep her sufficiently unsettled.
Since the "Indian side" know that the Chinese are up to such things where is the question of being rattled? I can never understand this. But I see a whole lot of Indians (in the media and other fora) saying that India will get rattled by this that or the other. I think that is absurd. If we know it and know that It is par for the course/business as usual what's this "rattled" unsettled" business? I don't buy that. Talk to bureaucrats/diplomats and you find that nobody is "getting rattled". The Chinese have their "rattle switches" and these include democracy, Tibet, China, human rights, Taiwan, nuclear issues with India and a whole lot of other things - and India does things that irritate the Chinese who like to retaliate in big gestures - as that is their way. India has its ways and the Chinese know it. shiv
