LEFT THE HIDDEN AGENDA
by bobby joseph on Jul 07, 2008 02:31 PM
In the last 60 years of Independence the great ugly America is our biggest trading partner. The maximum FDI in India is again from US. More than a million Indians have settled down in US and are being counted as well healed community with big purse strings there. Thousands of Indian Students head for America every year for higher studies. By contrast hardly any Indian has settled down in China or Russia and not very many students go there for higher studies. So whether our armchair comrades like it or not, people to people contact between US and India, the two great democracies, has picked up its own momentum that no sloganeering can reverse.
America does not occupy an inch of India’s territory but China, for whose avocation CPM was raised in Sixtees, occupies 40000 sq kilometers of Indian Territory in Aksai chin in Jammu and Kashmir State. In addition it is claiming 90000 sq kilometers of territory in Arunachal Pradesh.China has been propping up Pakistan to the extent of giving it nuclear bomb technology and missiles against India. Needless to say, so far as India is concerned China is a hegemonistic power that has fought a war with India in 1962.The joint Indian Parliament resolution of 1962, pledging to retake every inch of Indian Territory from China still stands. If national interest is the driving force as claimed by the comrades, then the Left parties should have agitated against the naval exercise which India had with China or for that matter Indian Army had w
