Srini - Yet another great article. Compelling argument on behalf of China and India to give them their legitimate seat at the table. To what extent both India and China should be held accountable for the unfair trade practice? A common practice of both countries is a requirement to set up a joint venture with 51% or more stake for a local company in that venture + surrender any trade secrets, should any non-local company wants to do business? Perhaps countries should walk away than compromise to do business in India/China? Will that curtail their expanding influence and even limit the economic power?
Ravi, being accountable no doubt is part of being a responsible world leader. Unfair trade practices are just that - unfair and must be countered. But, it’s near impossible to hold China accountable without treating it as an equal and having them shoulder the responsibility of maintain order. If we treat China as a renegade and an upstart, it shouldn’t be surprising if they behaved that way. Thanks for writing back!
To admit CHINA as an EQUAL to either AMERICA or INDIA, or to call them as SJUPERIOR , is trying to forget that the comparison should always be on an equal footing. None can contradict the undeniable fact, that a NAMELESS COUNTRY, (AMERICA) has risen to the top of the WORLD , within two centuries, overtaking the hoary glorious past of the other two big countries , by virtue of being both LIBERAL AND OPEN MINDED, AND BEING RESTRICTIVE and unresponsive to human sentiments, like a FREE DEMOCRATIC FORM OF GOVT, with an unrestricted level of freedom of speech and expression, inhibits one’s instinct to talk to them on equal terms. No doubt, the dubious policies of the American democratic history and INDIAN COLONIALISM, suppressed both of them from being more vocal, than what they wish to convey. It does not in anyway detract from the fact that SUPPRESSION, REPRESSION AND HIGH HANDED “whiplash “ tactics of CHINA, has made it, what it is today. But to equate all the three in the same category, is to ignore the hard reality, that an adversely impactful relationship of AMERICA with CHINA, has rendered the AMERICAN ECONOMY in a mess, making it, only number two in the World. In the WHIRLPOOL OF POLITICS, INDIA, lost the chance of being a PERMANENT MEMBERBOF THE UNSC, thanks to the fascination of the NEUTEALITY POLITICS adopted by India for more than 50 long years.There is absolutely no point in digging the past, as the present leadership of the COUNTRY, well recognises its importance in the comity of nations, and rise like PHOENIX from the ashes left behind, by a most unrealistic tactics of keeping at a distance, more from the western democracies than the much more humane and practical approach of rapprochement with them, which is what is being followed now. Thirty years hence, I envisage INDIA regaining the HOARY TRADITION OF BEING THE MOST LIBERAL, TOLERANT AND DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY from the rest of the World. The UNSC is poorer by, CHINA, equating another hostile muslim power with INDIA, and insist on BOTH BEING SIMULTANEOUSLY INDUCTED INTO THE UNSC, instead of being realistic in appreciating the role INDIA is playing , as a unifying force, amongst all the nations of the world, irrespective of their political affiliations and religious and philosophical diversities among themselves.
Srini - Yet another great article. Compelling argument on behalf of China and India to give them their legitimate seat at the table. To what extent both India and China should be held accountable for the unfair trade practice? A common practice of both countries is a requirement to set up a joint venture with 51% or more stake for a local company in that venture + surrender any trade secrets, should any non-local company wants to do business? Perhaps countries should walk away than compromise to do business in India/China? Will that curtail their expanding influence and even limit the economic power?
Ravi, being accountable no doubt is part of being a responsible world leader. Unfair trade practices are just that - unfair and must be countered. But, it’s near impossible to hold China accountable without treating it as an equal and having them shoulder the responsibility of maintain order. If we treat China as a renegade and an upstart, it shouldn’t be surprising if they behaved that way. Thanks for writing back!
To admit CHINA as an EQUAL to either AMERICA or INDIA, or to call them as SJUPERIOR , is trying to forget that the comparison should always be on an equal footing. None can contradict the undeniable fact, that a NAMELESS COUNTRY, (AMERICA) has risen to the top of the WORLD , within two centuries, overtaking the hoary glorious past of the other two big countries , by virtue of being both LIBERAL AND OPEN MINDED, AND BEING RESTRICTIVE and unresponsive to human sentiments, like a FREE DEMOCRATIC FORM OF GOVT, with an unrestricted level of freedom of speech and expression, inhibits one’s instinct to talk to them on equal terms. No doubt, the dubious policies of the American democratic history and INDIAN COLONIALISM, suppressed both of them from being more vocal, than what they wish to convey. It does not in anyway detract from the fact that SUPPRESSION, REPRESSION AND HIGH HANDED “whiplash “ tactics of CHINA, has made it, what it is today. But to equate all the three in the same category, is to ignore the hard reality, that an adversely impactful relationship of AMERICA with CHINA, has rendered the AMERICAN ECONOMY in a mess, making it, only number two in the World. In the WHIRLPOOL OF POLITICS, INDIA, lost the chance of being a PERMANENT MEMBERBOF THE UNSC, thanks to the fascination of the NEUTEALITY POLITICS adopted by India for more than 50 long years.There is absolutely no point in digging the past, as the present leadership of the COUNTRY, well recognises its importance in the comity of nations, and rise like PHOENIX from the ashes left behind, by a most unrealistic tactics of keeping at a distance, more from the western democracies than the much more humane and practical approach of rapprochement with them, which is what is being followed now. Thirty years hence, I envisage INDIA regaining the HOARY TRADITION OF BEING THE MOST LIBERAL, TOLERANT AND DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY from the rest of the World. The UNSC is poorer by, CHINA, equating another hostile muslim power with INDIA, and insist on BOTH BEING SIMULTANEOUSLY INDUCTED INTO THE UNSC, instead of being realistic in appreciating the role INDIA is playing , as a unifying force, amongst all the nations of the world, irrespective of their political affiliations and religious and philosophical diversities among themselves.