22/09/2009
New Delhi: Days after the Indian government asked the media to eschew "hype" over reported Chinese incursions, China's ambassador Zhang Yan Tuesday met Home Secretary G.K. Pillai here and tried to clarify the picture.
"Nothing is happening. You listen to your leaders," Zhang told reporters when asked about his nearly half-an-hour meeting with Pillai.
The Chinese ambassador's meeting came in the wake of repeated assertions by top Indian officials and the army chief that reported incursions have occurred due to differences in perception of the Line of Actual Control.
Even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh downplayed the incursions amid reports about Beijng's unhappiness at the way Chinese border transgressions have been reported in the Indian media to conjure up a China threat.
Seeking to deflate hype over reported Chinese intrusions across the undemarcated border, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao Saturday stressed that there was "no significant increase" in incursions across all sections of the over 4,000 km border between the two countries.
"Contrary to the popular perception, the situation along the border has remained peaceful for decades," Rao said.
National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and army chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor also cautioned against the media hype and stressed that there was nothing alarming about the reported incursions.
Narayanan expressed concern, saying that if such reports continued, "someone somewhere might lose his cool and something might go wrong."
Underlining the developing nature of relationship between India and China, Rao, a former ambassador to China, said the leaderships of the two countries are in regular communication over important bilateral issues.
"We remain in constant touch over all mutual issues. The leadership-level understandings and communication remain open all the time," Rao said.
Source: Indo-Asian News Service
escapal l
How dare the Chinese envoy 'advise' our citizens and media to listen to those who act like the ostrich burying its head in sand for the storm to blow over. We should be once bitten twice shy and learn from our debacle in 1962. Then also the sly dragon kept parroting 'Hindi Cheeni bhai bhai' and walked in the NEFA , now Arunachal pradesh; and pat of Ladhakh. Then also our guards (The Military) had cautioned the PM and the Defence Minister but they were found wearing the tinted glasses of 'Panch Sheel'. Our first PM then could not live with the shame of this treachery. High time our leaders wake up to realities.
Ravish #2
The primary problem seems to be the absence of clear demarcation of Line of Actual Control. Let that be addressed first. Soldiers at the border can mistake It is not the first time soldiers on either side cross to the other side where there is lack of clarity. It happens between India and Pakistan too. Creation of panic will not help even as the Army Chief assures there is nothing serious.
Venu10
#3
22 September 2009 11:31:57
Our leaders, who are Congress leaders, have a history of meekly surrendering. They surrendered to the partition of our country and partnered with the Communists - who justified Chinese attack upon India in 1962 - to run the 1st UPA regime. They continue to partner with the Muslim League - which is the original villain of partition - to run the 2nd UPA regime. They lack the patriotic fervour so necessary to shore up the nationalistic morale of our countrymen. It is no surprise that they are conveniently shutting their eyes to Chinese antagonism. That is what they did in 1962 under the slogan “Hindi-Chini bhai bhai”. What we need to do is to pursue nuclear capability to wipe out China if it tries to poke its bloody nose into Indian affairs and ditto to others. We need a Kennedy who put the Russians in their place in the 1962 Cuban Missile crises.
http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3240448&ucid=204835#uc2Lst204835
Cassandra #4
22 September 2009 11:42:43
This was all that was needed, the Chinese telling the media to listen to its leaders! It's amply clear that China has nothing to fear, its greatest ally is the Indian Government itself. With such a wonderful spokesman for them the Chinese need never trouble to open their mouths. Likewise too with Pakistan.
I wonder what would have happened if some intrepid mediaman/woman had told the Chinese Ambassador that 'our' leaders couldn't be believed, that the whole government was in fact a pack of cowardly liars?
And Madame Foreign Secretary seems to have forgotten the infamous midnight summons in Beijing...
laljad#5
Trust Chinese to lecture the Indians yet again. As always our Congress veterans are quietly submitting and prostrating in front of these turncoat Chinese.
Why is our Hon PM not able to put spine in his speeches and instead of taking everything lying down, for once lay a claim to Tibet as being part of India for eons as was the case historically.
The Chinese with their clear ambitions and goals of 20 years hence have clearly laid Indian diplomats on the mat.
They have been claiming Arunanchal as part of PRC, grabbed Aksai Chin (J&K), collaborated with NE rebels in Mizoram, Nagaland, Assam to keep Indian forces on tenterhooks, exploited the Maoist movement by supply of arms and ammunition across 6 states, built solid foundation with Burma, taken key control and position in Sri Lanka with assistance in Military and Ports building. They have got a clear record of hand on gloves relationship with Pakis for as long as memory serves us right.
All in all, they have effectivly circled India from all directions. Can our policy makers and diplomats see through this garb and start calling spade a spade, instead of Sleeping with the Enemy?
kash225#6
Make Military Service Compulsory for all able bodied young boys & girls. It should have been done way back in 1962. Even USA/& western countries resort to 'Drafting' & 'Conscriptions' in times of need. It is high time India also does it. Its Time remains the whole year round for decades .It will give a sense of direction & purpose to our 'youth'. Instead we are encouraging our youth to 'master' expert crookery to level up with old & budding politicians. Who are not worth even 'pennies'.
syde mommad#7
Indian leadership is so engrossed in the convenience of their lives and are so steeped in corruption and lack of any sense of loyalty and integrity, that they cannot stand up and face up to the chinese. The commies in India are having a field day. Look at N Ram of The Hindu. He is gloating over this whole story. He ran an editorial in his newspaper asking who will gain out of this war hysteria? Why doesn't he use his influence over the chinese and question their policy of supporting Pakistan on all issues. There is no doubt that the chinese do not want the boundary with India demarcated until Indian's are reduced to weaklings who cannot take up issues from a position of strength. When that day does arrive the chinese will walk all over us and claim all the territory that they think is theirs and occupy it. Discouraged by the drubbing of the Leftists in the recent Lok Sabha elections (they could not win even 30 seats, and yet they are considered a mainstream political force! What a farce!), one strategic analyst in China even went to the extent of saying that India is a Hindu country that is deeply divided on caste lines and deserves to be split into 30 different sovereign states. With the likes of Mr N Ram around, surely the chinese will realize their ambitions some day. Perhaps we need Lord Krishna to take a new avataar to ensure the survival of India.
ranjanp#8
I find it very embarrasing of the fact that we have chosen a govt. that sees no alarm in acts of incursion by a neighbouring country and that too by China which has a history of deception. Our officials and leaders take a break from their slumber, review the situation and label it as "under control" as there is "no significant increase" in incursions across all sections and then they go back to sleep.
It is us, the people, who are responsible for choosing such people to rule us. If we remain divided in our hearts in the name of caste, religion, language etc, then I wonder what would happen if one day God gets fed up with our stupidity and grants us our wish. Those lines will come out of our hearts and become solid walls on land and we will die fighting our own brothers and sisters like mad dogs. HE already gave us one example by granting the partition of Pakistan and India - If Hindus and Muslems were truly united in their hearts, partition would have never happened. If we still do not learn, then we should only blame ourselves and no one else for the consequences.
I urge ALL INDIANS to remove the divide in our hearts first and treat everyone with kindness and love and develop brotherhood, and I guarantee that the rest of the things will fall in place automatically in due course of time.
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