India’s China Perspective

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India’s most important diplomatic and strategic goal is to disrupt the Sino-Pakistan axis. Recent developments offer some hope because despite the fact of Chinaâ€™s significant contribution to Pakistan’s nuclear and missile programmes, the Pakistani increased Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) support to the Uighur Muslims, in exploiting the ethnic and religious tension in the Xinjiang province and in providing conduct through Pakistan for Osama Bin Laden’s terrorists has deeply concerned China. Pakistan might become a vortex of religious fervour of Central Asia. When that happens, China would then reassess its security relations with India, opening the possibility of strategic cooperation against terrorism and fundamentalism, India has to position herself for that now. It is towards this end of plugging the ‘security hole’ in Xinjiang, recognizing that a flood of fundamentalism from the Central Asian Republics and Afghanistan could inundate the province, that China in a pre-emptive move has constituted the ‘Shanghai Five’, which interestingly does not include Pakistan.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Subramanian Swamy

Subramanian Swamy is essentially an academician. His journey into politics has positioned him where he is heard nationally. His academic achievements and political endeavours combine to make him an extraordinary public figure who has few peers in India today. He is known for forceful presentation of his views, and often years later has been vindicated. As fellow academician Dr. Manmohan Singh has publicly declared, Dr. Swamy advocated economic reforms and nuclear weapons long before anyone else did in India. Dr. Swamy has been elected Member of Parliament five times (1974-99) and held Cabinet position in the Union Government twice(1990-91 and 1994-96). Born on September 15, 1939, Dr. Swamy was awarded in 1964 a Doctorate in Economics by the Harvard University after his joint research with two Nobel Laureates Paul A. Samuelson and Simon Kuznets. Later he joined the faculty at Harvard and taught economics for about ten years. He was also Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1969-91), from which post he resigned upon becoming Union Commerce & Law Minister. He is now President of Janata Party, founded by Jayaprakash Narayan in 1977.