12-11-2005, 11:55 PM
<b>The Prime Minister of India told the media on board Air India One on way to Kuala Lumpur on 11 Dec 05 that India and China are not competing against each other .He also stated that the border talks and trade talks are progressing in the right direction.
In fact the Western media often makes the remark that India and China are competitors and as such they may clash and it may lead to security problem in Asia. They also speculate that USA is taking more interest in India of late so that it can use India to counter the growing influence of China in the world. With regard to India and China being in a collusion course, it appears to be a journalistic hallucination to create some story. The growing trade and other economic ties between the two Asian nations is the testimony of the closeness with which both are operating. These two oldest civilizations have lived in peace for more than 2500 years except for a 20 day border war in 1962. So there is no reason to believe that they cannot co exists peacefully.
With regard to the renewed US interest in higher level of interaction with India, particularly in strategic and other matters, there are several reasons. The first is that India is a democracy and it is also emerging as a big market for US products. It being a country with substantial number of English speaking people is much easier to operate in and the legal and other systems are more westernized, being modeled on British system. Secondly, the US finds that the two million strong Indian presences in the USA is making a valuable contribution to the US economy and it is safe to do business with familiar faces.</b>
In fact the Western media often makes the remark that India and China are competitors and as such they may clash and it may lead to security problem in Asia. They also speculate that USA is taking more interest in India of late so that it can use India to counter the growing influence of China in the world. With regard to India and China being in a collusion course, it appears to be a journalistic hallucination to create some story. The growing trade and other economic ties between the two Asian nations is the testimony of the closeness with which both are operating. These two oldest civilizations have lived in peace for more than 2500 years except for a 20 day border war in 1962. So there is no reason to believe that they cannot co exists peacefully.
With regard to the renewed US interest in higher level of interaction with India, particularly in strategic and other matters, there are several reasons. The first is that India is a democracy and it is also emerging as a big market for US products. It being a country with substantial number of English speaking people is much easier to operate in and the legal and other systems are more westernized, being modeled on British system. Secondly, the US finds that the two million strong Indian presences in the USA is making a valuable contribution to the US economy and it is safe to do business with familiar faces.</b>