The commoners (especially the lower middle classes), convinced by large sections of the media, think that the left in India is just a front for Chinese interests. Cant find fault with them taking such an assumption if one were to read only what they read in some of the 'mainstream' papers.
However, it has also been reported by these same papers and also by the electronic media that China, alongwith other members of the NSG, has agreed to give it's consent for the nuclear deal between India and the US without India signing the NPT (such consent is required by mandate from every member of the NSG) !!!
That is a tough one - China asking it's supposed lackey in India, the left to sabotage the deal, then deciding to become a party to that same deal itself !!!
