09-15-2011, 01:34 AM
[quote name='Amatya Rakshas' date='13 September 2011 - 11:18 PM' timestamp='1315935648' post='112871']
Savithri-ji,
Kudos for the wonderful posts. I look forward to learn more by them, however I am bit bewildered by the assertion that China-India would be on the same side in due course. Could you please write more on it as it appears most unlikely given China's increasingly aggressive naval, land and other expansions in the subcontinent. Further, they also have outwardly adopted communism (outwardly because certain guru-s maintain that all along the history, China has not been what it seemed to the external world) which separates them from our system of governance. Although I think they are closer to us in terms of tradition (but not really sure, I score terribly on that!)
Request you to please throw some light on it.
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Dear Amatya Rakshas,
The first understanding of a nation's existence is in identifying its external enemy. (sometimes this identification can take two forms - immediate enemy and eternal enemy). Take for instance Japan during the second World War. Japan fought with China on the one hand and the U.S. on the other. In terms of who its main enemy who threatened Japan's existence is easy for you to identity. It was the United States. Why China was not its main enemy is not only because China was militarily weak then but that China and Japan has for centuries lived in relative peaceful co-existence.
This is the same principle that applies to China when you recon who would be the existential threat to China. Not India in the least.
Actually Kanchi Paramacharya taught this to Dr.Subramanian Swamy! Ask him if it was true or not.
By the way, the fall of Hindu empire to the Islamic hoards was because of non-apprehension and or failing to appreciate the dangers of external threat.
Savithri-ji,
Kudos for the wonderful posts. I look forward to learn more by them, however I am bit bewildered by the assertion that China-India would be on the same side in due course. Could you please write more on it as it appears most unlikely given China's increasingly aggressive naval, land and other expansions in the subcontinent. Further, they also have outwardly adopted communism (outwardly because certain guru-s maintain that all along the history, China has not been what it seemed to the external world) which separates them from our system of governance. Although I think they are closer to us in terms of tradition (but not really sure, I score terribly on that!)
Request you to please throw some light on it.
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Dear Amatya Rakshas,
The first understanding of a nation's existence is in identifying its external enemy. (sometimes this identification can take two forms - immediate enemy and eternal enemy). Take for instance Japan during the second World War. Japan fought with China on the one hand and the U.S. on the other. In terms of who its main enemy who threatened Japan's existence is easy for you to identity. It was the United States. Why China was not its main enemy is not only because China was militarily weak then but that China and Japan has for centuries lived in relative peaceful co-existence.
This is the same principle that applies to China when you recon who would be the existential threat to China. Not India in the least.
Actually Kanchi Paramacharya taught this to Dr.Subramanian Swamy! Ask him if it was true or not.
By the way, the fall of Hindu empire to the Islamic hoards was because of non-apprehension and or failing to appreciate the dangers of external threat.