Looming Conflicts Between China and India

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Jeremy Kahn, Why India Fears China. Newsweek, Oct. 19, 2009 (cover date).
http://www.newsweek.com/id/217088

Quote:

"Susan Shirk, a former Clinton-administration official and expert on China, says that "in the past, Taiwan was the 'core issue of sovereignty,' as they call it, and Tibet was not very salient to the public." Now, says Shirk, Tibet is considered a "core issue of national sovereignty" on par with Taiwan.

"Tibet ceded Tawang and the area around it to British India in 1914. * * * All these [recent China's] moves are best understood in the context of China's recent troubles in Tibet, with Beijing increasingly concerned that any acceptance of the 1914 border will amount to an implicit acknowledgment that Tibet was once independent of China—a serious blow to the legitimacy of China's control over the region and potentially other minority areas as well.

"To many Indians, China is an expansionist power bent on thwarting India's rise as a serious challenge to Beijing's influence in Asia.

"Still, if Tibet is the new Taiwan, it requires extremely delicate diplomacy. If anything, the West tends to under-estimate China's willingness to fight independence moves in Taiwan—it has fired missile warning shots as recently as 1996—and the same may now be said of Tibet. Taiwan, however, has maintained the parlous status quo by arming itself to the teeth, while avoiding any rhetoric or action that crosses Beijing's red lines. India is trying a similar approach.


---------------Separately
(1) Investor complains to China's Hu with Taiwan front-page ad. AFP, Oct. 12, 2009.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091012/od_afp/taiwanchinausinvestfraudoffbeat_20091012161329

(2) Ian Buruma, Opinion: China's class ceiling. For the nation's growing economic elite, life is sweet. For dissidents and peasants, it's a different story. Los Angeles Times, Oct. 11, 2009.

"That the current ruler of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, is a bore will no doubt be a relief to most people, including 1.3 billion Chinese. Hu's dullness is remarkable given the high drama of China's fairly recent transformation  * * * But perhaps his lack of charisma is part of the point.

"China is the only ancient civilization in human history to have reemerged as a major force in the world. * * * So why rock the boat?

Note:
(a) bore (n): "one that causes boredom"
(b) HONG Huang 洪晃
http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E6%B4%AA%E6%99%83
(c) YANG Lian 杨炼 (whose wife is Yo Yo 友友)
(d) to get with te program: to "follow the rules; do what you are supposed to do. (Implies that there is a clearly known method or "program" that is usually followed.)"
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get+with+the+program
(e) Bard College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard_College
(Founded in 1860;a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; changed its name to Bard in 1934 in honor of its founder, John Bard)

(3) An apple a day keeps Taiwan couple's 50-year marriage sweet. DPA,
Oct. 12, 2009.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20091012/876/twl-an-apple-a-day-keeps-taiwan-couple-s.html

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