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| China potential threat number one: George Fernandes |
| 2008-03-30 |
| Describing as an 'error' the NDA government's decision to recognise Tibet as a part of China, former Defence Minister George Fernandes has said the Communist nation was "potential threat number one" to India and flayed the UPA dispensation for allowing it to be 'bullied'. Venting anger over the Tibet crisis and India's response to it, the NDA leader said the Olympic torch should not be allowed to come to India and that he had asked his 'colleagues' and others to make 'whatever effort' to prevent the flame's run in this country. "It was not a mistake but an error. It should not have been done," he said about India's decision to recognise Tibet as part of China during the previous Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government in which he was the Defence Minister. Fernandes told Karan Thapar's Devil's Advocate programme on CNN-IBN that China is "still potential threat number one" and "could become an enemy", as he recalled his statement on similar lines 10 years back. Commenting on the recent incident of Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao being summoned by the Chinese Foreign Ministry past midnight, Fernandes said New Delhi had "surrendered" over the issue. "Well, our government allowed it. It has no shame," he said, adding that the government should have advised its envoy to wait till the next day. "Elsewhere that's what would have happened." Rao was summoned past midnight to register concern over breach of security at Chinese Embassy here. "India has sold out to China," he alleged. Asked whether India was being "bullied" by China, Fernandes replied "absolutely, and it accepts it." |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #3 I have spring break here JoeMan, Imma mull on that. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Angavick7428 2008-03-30 23:04 |
| #2 Shoot, don't remember the article off-hand, but IIRC it was an on WAFF.com > IIRC, Article argues that INDIA was indir responsible for its own historical failures agz Chinese-origin/specific iniatives and mil aggressions as due to the repeated failue of New Delhi to effectively respond to same. IOW, NEW DELHI APPEASETH TO MUCH-PREFERS {PRO-CHIN APPEAS TO HAVING POWERFUL MILITARY, STATE-MIL PLANNING, + NATIONAL ECONOMY. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-30 19:07 |
| #1 Taiwanese Legislator Accuses President Chen of Nuclear Weapons Development KMT Legislator Su Chi accused President Chen of restarting TaiwanÂ’s nuclear weapons program... that TaiwanÂ’s National Security Council (NSC) had secretly invited an unnamed former defense secretary and several nuclear weapons experts from a state with nuclear weapons to discuss this issue; Lending a modicum of credibility to SuÂ’s comments, on November 9, 2007, the Taiwan News, a Hong Kong-based newspaper, revealed that former Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes visited Taiwan in April 2007 and met with members of the NSC. India is an acknowledged possessor of nuclear weapons. [7] The Taiwan News article further revealed that former NSC officials Parris Chang and Antonio Chiang, as well as former Vice Defense Minister Lin Chong-pin, had secretly visited India numerous times at FernandesÂ’s invitation while he was defense minister (presumably in 2000-2001, the years when FernandesÂ’s tenure overlapped with that of ChenÂ’s presidency). [8] |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-03-30 15:14 |