02-10-2006, 08:02 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Caught in a pincer</b>
India is ringed by hostile neighbours, who hope to bleed and balkanise it.
By Gautam Sen
India is encountering a geopolitical pincer movement to corner it, prior to its eventual liquidation as a significant political entity. The principal instigator of this pincer movement is China, which has already garlanded India with a ring of hostile countries, itching to see it prostrate. The garland of thorns surrounding India begins with Bangladesh, Burma and Nepal and ends with the bleeding dagger of Pakistan already thrust deep into India's body politic. Nepal's unabashed participation in this campaign has been held back by India's economic stranglehold over it, but its dominant elites are more than anxious to plunge a dagger of their own into India's heart. Where Sri Lanka will fit into this equation barely requires much imagination, despite the apparent current honeymoon, because the Sinhalese have long harboured iridescent contempt for India...
<i>Dr Gautam Sen formerly taught at the London School of Economics & Political Science.</i>
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India is ringed by hostile neighbours, who hope to bleed and balkanise it.
By Gautam Sen
India is encountering a geopolitical pincer movement to corner it, prior to its eventual liquidation as a significant political entity. The principal instigator of this pincer movement is China, which has already garlanded India with a ring of hostile countries, itching to see it prostrate. The garland of thorns surrounding India begins with Bangladesh, Burma and Nepal and ends with the bleeding dagger of Pakistan already thrust deep into India's body politic. Nepal's unabashed participation in this campaign has been held back by India's economic stranglehold over it, but its dominant elites are more than anxious to plunge a dagger of their own into India's heart. Where Sri Lanka will fit into this equation barely requires much imagination, despite the apparent current honeymoon, because the Sinhalese have long harboured iridescent contempt for India...
<i>Dr Gautam Sen formerly taught at the London School of Economics & Political Science.</i>
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