Niraj Aryal, Kathmandu: A country plagued with continued internal conflicts, a beleaguered nation with decades long armed insurgency in the North-East, Muslim population fighting for independent State in Kashmir since the very first day of the partition and now the overshoot of overtly boasted economic prosperity-the violent Maoist insurgency in the country’s most underprivileged states, can India afford War with either Pakistan or China or at worst both together?

However, Indian academics, warn their Government to remain ever prepared to fight China come year 2012 by improving its defense system.

Pretty nervous Indian academics give a very absurd reason for the War that is going to take place in the year 2012 as they opine in a some what frustrated manner?

“…that China will attack India by 2012 to divert the attention of its own people from unprecedented internal dissent, growing unemployment and financial problems that are threatening the hold of Communists in that country, claims Bharat Verma, Editor of the Indian Defense Review.

"China will launch an attack on the soft target- India before 2012. There are multiple reasons for a desperate Beijing to teach India the final lesson, thereby ensuring Chinese supremacy in Asia in this century," Verma is quoted by one of the Indian media.

Among other reasons for this assessment were rising unemployment, flight of capital worth billions of dollars, depletion of its foreign exchange reserves and the ever increasing internal dissent, Verma said in an editorial in the forthcoming issue of the premier defense journal of India.

At least looking into the Indian anxiety from Kathmandu lens, whether the southern neighbor, Nepal’s self proclaimed big brother any way, can afford war with China or not is not at all debatable …with China equipped with world’s largest military and virtually surrounding India in the Indian Ocean from Sri Lanka to Pakistan and most importantly, India’s neighboring countries of late preferring to side with China including natural gas enriched Myanmar, India is sure to loose the 2012 battle with the northern neighbor, if that happens at all.

If the prediction of the Indian academics is to come true, not only China, come 2012 India is sure to be at war in at least four different fronts, all together.

First and the foremost, India is to prepare itself to fight the internal insurgencies that it claims as to have been funded by China and morally supported by internal political forces such as that with the Naxals and ULFA and a host of similar insurgencies.

Second, a war with nuclear Pakistan looks inevitable, as India continues to create unrest in Baluchistan and support local Taliban outfits in the Swat valley, Pakistan’s patience is tested here.

And thirdly, at war with mediocre neighbors, such as Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka sans Bhutanfor understandable reasons. India can not just ignore this proposition as well. Bhutan’s patience is also being tested, after all for how long it will continue to bow down to the Indian Gods to protect its ruthless regime.

What India can do to avert this war is quite simple as well?

Rather than concentrating on further irritating smaller neighbors like Nepal, Sri Lanka andBangladesh, India should learn on how to “behave” with sovereign nation’s in the neighborhood.

Here are some important tips for India.

First, respect the sovereignty of the smaller neighbors.

India should stop unnecessarily meddling in the internal matters of the countries in the backyard and immediately recall those erratic undiplomatic envoys, for example Sood of the Talibani fame, who behave as if he were the viceroys of the colonist India.

India must also stop nurturing Terrorists in the neighborhood such as that of the LTTE and those Madhesi armed outfits based in India that are terrorizing Nepali citizens.

India can at best stop playing the dangerous game of using the US card against China with which it shares great economic interests. By the way, India should also keep it in mind that the US is also with Pakistan and China.

India must also stop provoking anti-China elements in the neighborhood as it has been doing it from the Nepalese soil.

Rather than building up its defense at the cost of the millions and millions of destitute citizens who barely get two meals a day, India should finally mend its own erratic ways in dealing with the neighbors who still possess some love for India.

Comments (3)

US democracy only benefits US citizens but not the world. Any other country would have gone bankrupt with that kind of deficit but US dollar still dominates the world. Dictatorship in China benefits the world but not the Chinese people. The world enjoys cheap Chinese products but the Chinese gdp per capita is embarrassingly low. Lastly, Indian democracy is of no bloody good to her people and the world. It is understandable that the Indian academics are a frustrated lot.

Commented by tallanhok - July 14, 2009 @ 12:01 AM

Agreed!

Commented by S.Bedi - July 13, 2009 @ 11:47 PM

its heartbreaking to read this pathetic article. I can say without any doubt that all Indians value freedom, human rights and of course sovereignty of other nations. May I remind that it was India who delivered Bangladesh after sufferring blows from Pakistan and China. It is India who stood up for Tibet when all nations including Nepal bowed to the Chinese pressure. India is not expansionist while china is. Remember Tibet. Once the US influence is diminished it is Nepal's turn. A stronger relationship with India is in Nepal's interest. We value our Nepalese friends wisdom and culture. India stands by you while your budding democracy grows up. Don't ignite anti-India feelings among Nepalese. With your reference to SriLanka, India paid utmost price risking a Tamil backlash while fellow Tamilians are brutally abused by the Sri Lankan army just so she does not interfere in Sri Lankas affairs. Please take back your baseless speculation about India fueling a separatist movement in Balochistan. What next are you also going to accuse India's role in the Uigher crisis in China? We all know that no one is showing no one any unconditional love. For example Nepal is playing the China card which is an open secret. are you ready to let chinese use your country as a base to launch attack on Inida? Remember an Asia without India balancing China. There will be no Asia there is going to be China. Please get your facts right before you throw the kitchen's sink. Regards Karteek

Commented by Karteek - July 13, 2009 @ 11:34 PM

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