An excellent article. Hu has come and gone. The issues will continue to remain unsettled for quite some time. Regardless of who rules, their interests are permanent. Mr. Narayanan refers to the 2005 agreement on the Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for the settlement of the boundary.."of 4/2005. In agreeing to "actual situation on border areas" (which Mr. Narayanan has thoughtfully italicised) we have given up our case on Aksai Chin. This needs to be re-asserted before it becomes too late. Now they are going to lay a modern transport infrastructure via POK connnecting Xinjiang and Gwadar. It is a tragedy that the impact of this had not dawned on our leaders and Foreign Office mandarins.
TOday a commentator's column in a newspaper refers to the discomfort of chinese with the NSA for its apparent hardline and (hence)they are not giving dates for further discussion. The stark fact which has not dawned on our leaders is that not only Chinese gobble up lands but in discussing matters, they want to say with whom they shall talk! There cannot be a greater insult to us than this. Meanwhile our own experts are gung-ho on China and its greatness.
