Source: Indian Punchline.
The fact of the matter is that: a) Pakistan is not living up to China’s high expectations and is gripped with a death wish of its own making that it is unable to shake off; b) Chinese priorities in South Asia have changed and it is not in the business of putting a string of pearls around the Indian neck; c) and, China increasingly views India from a global perspective in terms of the emerging world order where the two countries pulling together would have much more gravitas than either would have on own steam.
It beats me why the Indian pundits are unable to co-relate diplomacy with the historical forces at work in world politics, why they are so hopelessly ideological about ‘communist China’ and why they’re wasting time weaving fanciful dreams of a concert of Asian democracies getting ready to ‘contain’ China. Why, why, why? Why should India gang up with a B team in Asia-Pacific when it could have a deserving place in the A team.
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