[Assam] Pranab is being snubbed at Beijing RIGHT now, and India dreams of countering China and hang on to non-Indian territories! Be good India; return all the territories to their rightful owners as per the claims of the respective indigenous inhabitants.

[Bartta Bistar]

"Beware of China"  http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=3787 10/25/2007
6:44:22 AM





The alarm bells are ringing in New Delhi. In clear signs that India is
increasingly becoming wary of China's muscle-flexing, Defence Minister A K
Anthony has warned the Armed Forces of China's military expansion and
growing military might.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is currently in China holding
talks with the government, but even as India uses diplomacy to gloss over a
clutch of sticky issues dogging India-China ties - especially repeated
Chinese incursions by the Red Army into India - back home in New Delhi the
government is wary of Chinese military expansion and modernisation.

The country's Defence Minister A K Antony has told the Army that it must
take note of China's military modernisation"

"We must take note of China's military modernisation. There is a need to
carefully monitor the international environment and formulate flexible
response options to emerging situations," Anthony said.

The warning comes on the back of TIMES NOW carrying reports of a huge
military exercise in the heart of China that wowed the world. The exercises
were aimed at showcasing to the world that China had acquired the capability
to fight a war in the information age.

A number of foreign observers especially invited by the Chinese government,
had come away impressed.

An American commander was seen on Chinese television on October 5 saying
that Chinese military expansion was going in a "very sensible
direction", with particular regard to the development of lazer trainng
systems.

China's military modernisation is of particular concern to India, because it
will fast track it toward military superiority and alter the balance of
power in the region. Already China has been flexing its muscle, regularly
encroaching on Indian territory along the LAC with little regard for India's
concerns. In September 07 incursions were reported near Kayala pass in
Arunachal; pictures in the possession of the Indian Army show Chinese
scribbles on the rocks in areas near the Kayala pass.

Now the ball is in the court of India's newly appointed Army chief, General
Deepak Kapoor who incidentally on his first day in office has pledged to
modernise the Indian army.
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