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THREAT OF WAR IS GONE-NOW INDIA AND CHINA MUST PROSPER

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 7/8/2020 1:59:00 PM

T K NANDANAN The build-up tension at the Indo-China border has started petering out with the announcement on Monday that both countries had agreed to ensure complete disengagement of the troops along the Line of Actual Control(LAC) and deescalation from the border areas. Strategically speaking, India has won the battle against the mighty China though it had pursued a stubborn and aggressive policy from the start of the stand off at the border with India. But India, knowing that a full-scale war with China would spell doom for the entire world and three billions people would have to be perished directly or indirectly if war is broken out, was rather apprehensive of the fallout and went into a strategic handling of the tense situation at the border. In the first place, we have to remember about a very constructive and practical step India had taken up- it devised plans to rope in some major countries like the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Russia etc., to pressurize China regime to withdraw from the encroached area on the Indian Territory. Secondly, India cautiously tread on a different path that also could make the dragon think about the great loss it could suffer in case it locked horns with India. Presumably, it might have dawned on China that India is a great and vast country to market China’s myriad and varied products including world famous electronic gadgets. Truthfully, there are several Chinese companies in India including smart phone companies, which have invested billions of dollars in India. Also, India is one of the largest trading partners of China. Innumerable Chinese products are being imported to India and Indian markets are flooded with Chinese products, which are very famous for its qualities and low price. In these circumstances, it is not good for China to make India an enemy. Further, the lasting prospect of China truly rests in being friendly with India. The flipside is that if China is waging war with India, only massive casualties and losses can be left behind, which is indeed unwise at this present scenario. Meanwhile, the South China Sea has witnessed the US military exercises in a show of might and to push back China’s claims in the region. Two US Navy aircraft carriers-USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan began holding exercises giving China a scare. Japan is also putting on airs of aggressive behaviour to blunt China’s razor of domineering attitude. In short, the best way to subdue an authoritarian regime that has expansionist attitude is to unite by all other nations and impose economic embargo. Surely, authoritarian regime like the country of China will yield to collective might of other nations. Anyway, India can heave a sigh of relief as a great threat of war loomed over the Indian peninsula is over. Henceforth, India and China must concentrate their main attention on development. When peace comes to rule, prosperity is bound to come with.