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Fri, Dec 17th 2010, 11:53

Arvind Kumar

Growing relation between China and Pakistan is cause of concern for india ! But china needs India to grow faster in this world order. its not easy for china to neglect the indian concern !

Mon, Apr 18th 2011, 22:30

Brooke Rachel Feldman, Emory University , Bronze Contributor (13)

Train economics are huge in India and worth an investigation themself!

Fri, Jun 10th 2011, 06:03

Amarjyoti Acharya

The fears seem exaggerated. China's status is not India dependent. India stands to gain from its geopolitical positioning - as an ally of the global forces that would seek to offset China's eventual status as a super-power. Secondly, China's constructive management of its relations with even large & powerful neighbours like Russia is something that India can learn from when dealing with China (even though it can not imagine itself as China here) and recognize India's importance in South Asia. India continues being a major factor in South Asia and presents a potential free trading zone for the global players. If India can integrate its economy with the global market (make it a free economy), it presents an attractive market for the ASEAN states as well. This will accrue well for India's aspirations for a greater global stature if it succeeds in matching a free market with a modern democratic society & governance.

Fri, Sep 16th 2011, 22:06

Erica Mukherjee, NYU, Silver Contributor (51)

Rather than focus on the economic underpinnings of China's relationship with Pakistan, it is better to focus on the security aspect. Though the world is a vastly different place than it was in 1962, China's first (and hopefully only) attack on India caught the country largely unawares and certainly unprepared. Now, China continues to strengthen its road and rail links deep in the Himalayan region all along India's northeastern border. The current agreements with Pakistan, both those referenced in the above piece and in this more recent article from the Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Keep-off-PoK-India-warns-C...) point to China working to continue that infrastructure net around the entirety of India's northern border. Sort of a string of pearls in the Himalayas, if you will.

If India and China engaged in an arms race the results would decrease the security of the region and take precious resources away from countries with very large impoverish populations. If India and China engaged in an infrastructure race, on the other hand, the results could be quite positive. Not only would unskilled jobs be generated to employ workers in the largely neglected north-eastern area of India, but the subsequent transportation linkages may also help to integrate this region into India as a whole. Interstate trade could also pick up, and with that the chances of violent conflict would decrease.

India should be aware of the partnership between Pakistan and China. It should be concerned about all the Chinese funded construction that is taking place near its border. These fears are not exaggerated. India's response, however, should be to integrate her border regions closer to the center through infrastructure and other growth-enhancing institutions.

Tue, Jan 17th 2012, 08:00

Talha Bin Tariq, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan, Gold Contributor (102)

Of course Pakistan and china were in good terms with each other almost from the very beginning both the countries try to help each other in one way or other .. And India has always some concerns about Pakistan-china friendship since India holds very important and major part not only Asian politics but also in world politics.


Regards,
Talha Bin Tariq

Thu, Mar 29th 2012, 10:42

Amarjyoti Acharya / Lawrence Micahel

The recent disclosures in the press via some leaked memo by the present Chief of the Indian Army paints a rather sorry picture. Right now the BRIC leaderships are in New Delhi and the timing of this disclosure could not be more unnerving for those that hallucinate about any Sino-Indian arms race. Given the current picture of defence preparedness of the Indian army, it is an achievable target for Pakistan should it decide to go into a war with India then.

However, a very beautiful thing may emerge from this disclosures about the sorry state of India's defence preparedness via the disclosures by its Chief of the Army. Should Pakistan not go for a war with India (and desist and continue with its efforts at emulating China (a lot of states & nations do look forward at China for providing for a global leadership that is hinged upon the strategic visions of mutual growth & development), it would have merely made a mockery of the harbingers of war within India. War is a huge industry and as one of the accusations by the Indian Chief hints at - it is less about the defence of India and more about the kickbacks. Now that is an alarming picture anyway and further undermines and does severely erode India's credibility as a responsible state.

So one supposes that talking about some Chinese threat etc. may be more informed by non-South Asian realities and their authors may be like the kick-back concerns that frankly do not have India's defence concerns as their concerns. Now what happens if Pakistan desists and does not declare a war against India? Despite such debilitating disclosures? That would be the Indian state's losing more face than it can ever imagine. Or (and a big OR) the epistemic community of India or Indians that so seek to mimic terms and concepts from existing literature stand vindicated as being seriously out of touch with reality - since Pakistan has traditionally been posited as India's intractable enemy. By that logic Pakistan should try and extract its imagined pound of flesh from India soon enough. If it does not do so or China does not do so - in suddenly forcefully solving its territorial disputes with India - a lot stands to be seen as fantastic even as the notion that kickbacks and not India's defence concerns fuel the Indian Defence spending makes for a debilitating realization and recognition of fantastic state failures. Leave alone Human Development Indices as markers for state achievements and Human Rights for a liberal democracy as India.