‘China’s policy towards India betrays deep-rooted hostility’
January 15th, 2011 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) China’s policy towards India betrays a deep-rooted hostility, said a retired chief of the Indian Navy Saturday.”There is a competition for strategic space between India and China, with the latter giving moral support to Pakistan, opposing a permanent seat for India in the United Nations Security Council and reiterating its claim on Arunachal Pradesh. Thus, there exists a deep-rooted hostility towards India,” said Admiral (retd) Arun Prakash.
Delivering a lecture on “The Challenge of China’s Growing Maritime Power”, Prakash said the balance in Indo-China bilateral trade was tilted in favour of China.
“In fact, trade can become a Trojan horse. India’s export of raw materials to China is less, while the latter is flooding the Indian market with its finished products,” he said.
He said the neighbouring country was playing down its defence allocation and keeping its military expansion opaque.
However, Prakash said if China continued to threaten India from the northeast, “we can reciprocate from the Indian Ocean”.
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