The Indian
media and the mentality of its leaders did not help either to dispel this myth.
They want to believe that China is going to invade and take over India like the
Americans telling themselves of Chinese wading ashore along the western
American states to take over America. What is the truth? It was America and
western countries that invaded China and turned China into a semi colony. And
the West has been bullying China and trying to contain China by building
military alliances to ring China when not a single Chinese soldier is outside
China. Modern China has never invaded any country but being invaded by the
colonial powers of Japan and the West. But China is demonized by the West as an
ambitious and aggressive power trying to conquer its neighbouring countries
when it was the West and Japan that conquered and colonized these countries and
China.
What about
the fabricated fears of a hostile China invading India? Historically China had
never invaded India nor conduct wars of aggression against India. There was
this recognition that land over the other side of the Himalayas was not part of
dynastic China. What about the Sino Indian border war in 1962?
The Indians
have been harping till today that it was China who invaded India when they knew
that it was the opposite. The invasion of China, to seize Chinese territories,
was an Indian game plan with the formation of a 4th Indian Army Corp
specifically for this purpose. And to move back a few centuries in Indian
history, there was really no India for centuries until the British conquered,
colonized and consolidated all the loosely held kingdoms in the subcontinent
under British rule. The British Empire went further to carve out Chinese territories
as theirs at a time when China was weak and broken up.
A formal
Indian state came into existence in 1947 when it was given independence by the
British. And India claimed that all the land carved out by the British from
China is part of India. The border areas were territory snatched from China.
China did not attempt to reclaim the land by force. It was an ambitious and ego
inflated India that thought it could seize the land by force when China was a
weak new country under communist rule in 1962.
The rest is history.
Till today,
the Indians are putting on a false front accusing China of invading India. The
fact, China repelled the invading Indian 4th Army Corp, marched to
the outskirt of New Delhi, and then withdrew. Would an invading army do that,
would an aggressive China harbouring an intent of conquering India withdrew
from a defeated enemy on the run? China treated tens of thousands of Indian
POWs like lost boy scouts, treated their injuries, fed and clothed them, clean
and polished up all the captured weapons and returned the POWs and the weapons
to India. What did all this said about a
hostile China?
India should
stop its nonsensical accusation of China and the myth that China is waiting to
invade India. In 1962 China could over run New Delhi in pursuit of the defeated
Indian Army but did not, voluntarily withdrew without looting and raping or
burning India along the way. India got away too lightly for its invasion of
China.
In today’s
geopolitics, conquest and colonizing another country is no longer acceptable
and feasible as an option to global ambition. Only the Americans think so.
China has no bad intent or ambition to want to have a war with India, to
conquer India. All the Indian talks about building intercontinental missiles,
aircraft and aircraft carriers and now submarines to defend an imaginary China
running over India is simply hogwash. Too much toddy in the head.
India and
China should continue to build economic ties and friendly relations and grow
economically and military powerful as big countries. There is nothing wrong for
the India to harbour wild ambitions to be the most powerful nation in Asia or in
the world. But to build a straw man that China is its arch enemy and India must
do everything it could to counter a China military threat is simply silly.
Stop
drinking toddy and come to your senses, build your military machine for
whatever purposes, but don’t create a myth that China is India’s enemy. There
is no reason for China to want to invade India or any neighbouring country.
North Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and many central Asian
states with common borders with China have not been invaded nor have any border
dispute with China. The Indians should negotiate with the Chinese and return
the land carved away by the British warlord from China peacefully.
China is not
asking for more land, not an inch of an India created by the British Empire. If
there is going to be war between India and China, it would be the Indians
conniving with the Americans to attack China, not the other way. The hostile
and aggressive country is India and its superpower ambition. China is already a
super power in its own right by trading and manufacturing and helping countries
building infrastructures, without having to go to war, not invading or
conquering any country. China is now a superpower without having to grab any
country’s land by force. What for?
2 comments:
China and India are born neighbours for over 5000 years. Both had their heydays. In the Case of India during the Sri Vijaya and Majapahit Days, it was quite an influence.
The Chinese have adopted some Indian Cultures in religions and arts.
Modi in his recent visit to China, had seek for ancient historical Indian footprints and he was extremely proud of the Links between the Two Neighbours.
Unless the Modern Indians have gone bonker, no Indian in his/ her right mind will ever think of taking China by war.
patriot
At some time in the future, my prediction is that these 2 giants will fight.
China a superpower? Please lah uncle...your ejaculation is premature lah. Be patient, all in good time.
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