[Assam] China in Arunachal, India won't care : CNN-IBN

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

  China in Arunachal, India won't care : CNN-IBN  -
Meetu Jain

New Delhi: First the Chinese ambassador to India Sun
Yuxi made a sensational statement to CNN-IBN claiming
that Arunachal Pradesh was a part of China, and now
the Chinese seem to be making good their claim.

Reports indicate that the Chinese have actually
crossed the border to occupy parts of the state’s
territory.

However, it’s not the first time that such an incident
has occurred. Every time the snow on the high peaks
melts, the Indian side realises that China has
intruded deeper into the country.

But the envoy’s outrageous claim and the infiltration
don’t seem to be bothering the Indian Government, keen
on taking the dialogue process forward.

“There are some inadvertent incursions. Are we going
to make them a national issue and make them come in
the way of talks that are heading positively towards a
resolution – no,” said Home Secretary V K Duggal.

In an interview with the CNN-IBN, Duggal also spoke
about other law and order challenges of 2007.

Interestingly, while the UPA Government is demanding
President’s rule in Uttar Pradesh – going to polls
soon – the state is not really a cause for worry.


“There is nothing like worrisome in that state,” said
Duggal.

Instead, it’s the Congress-ruled Punjab that the
intelligence agencies are especially keeping a watch
out for.

“The election fervour this time seems to be a little
bit more charged. It’s going to be a little bit more
tensely-fought election,” said Duggal.

The Home Secretary also admitted for the first time
that both the Singur violence and the Kalinganagar
massacre in early 2006 had a Naxal element to it.

“What you saw in Singur and Kalinganagar, all states
are conscious that they need a better rehab policy,
now that they are setting up development projects. If
that’s not done, these people can become a source of
information to Naxals,” he said.

The Centre's big claim for 2006 is that violence was
at an all time low.

But it’s the New Year that will be the big challenge,
as waiting to upset the status quo are not just
sleeper cells from within the country, but also the
terror groups from outside.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/arunachal-is-chinese-territory-envoy-minces-no-words\
/26108-3.html

Arunachal is Chinese land: envoy: CNN-IBN -- Surya
Gangadharan

New Delhi: Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory,
Beijing's envoy to Delhi has said ahead of the
country's President's visit to India on November 20.

In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Chinese
Ambassador Sun Yuxi reiterated his country's claim to
the strategically important state and said the border
dispute with India was complicated and would take time
to resolve.

“In our position the whole of what you call the state
of Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory and Tawang
(district) is only one place in it and we are claiming
all of that-that's our position,” said Ambassador Sun
Yuxi.

Sun Yuxi avoided a question on China wanting India to
give up nuclear weapons. "Unfortunately, we have five
nuclear weapons powers in the world. That number
should be reduced. We will be very happy if we can
give up our nuclear weapons and are working for an
international agreement on elimination of nuclear
weapons," he said.

Long march to settlement

China cites the Tawang Monastery, one of the last
vestiges of Mahayana Buddhism, as evidence that the
mountainous district of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh
once belonged to Tibet and that India should hand it
back to help settle the row.

The dispute over the 3,500-km India-China border led
to the 1962 war. New Delhi disputes Beijing's rule
over 38,000 sq km of barren, icy and uninhabited land
on the Tibetan plateau, which China seized from India
in the 1962 war.

China, for its part, claims 90,000 sq km of territory
in Arunachal Pradesh.

Within that disputed area is Tawang and its monastery.
The neighbours have held several rounds of talks since
1981 to resolve the dispute but have so far failed to
make progress.

Last year, they agreed on an 11-point roadmap to
settle the border row in light of booming bilateral
trade and growing ties.

The proposal was seen as an attempt towards accepting
the status quo and hammering out a swap whereby China
would give up claims in the east in return for India's
recognition of Chinese sovereignty in the strategic
Aksai Chin area in the west.

Although both sides seemed amenable to such a deal,
Beijing's demand for Tawang - and India's refusal to
part with any populated territories - has created a
stumbling block.
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