While respecting the impressionistic views of Mr Raman,a veteran columnist/prolific writer,I may say that national pride comes out of national prosperity.Pride is some thing to be felt over some achievement & Chinese achievements are economic prosperity and military power.So effectively,their strength lies in their economic prosperity & military power which make them feel proud to the extent of aiming at dominance in Asia if not the whole world.Raman himself said elsewhere that their pride, interalia ,is "over their achievements".Indian mind set replete with "prejudices, suspicions & ways of thinking"is a matter of reciprocation of similar things by China too.We need not be more loyal and too much exuberant than them.And cooperation again is a matter of reciprocation. Expecting us to develop rapid cooperation with China which however would continue to hold our territory & go for amazing infrastructure activities including laying of roads in frontier areas abetting Tibet is too much on the part of Mr Raman-it is beyond the comprehension of an average Indian.Pakisthan is our known arch enemy while China with its simmering spite still continues its animosity in its heart of heart although outwardly it looks like a proverbial "good boy".This feeling cannot be stated to be emerging out of non-liberation of Indian mind set.We can write any thing & every thing in abstract terms of flowery language,but the fact remains that China cannot be believed with its outward countenance.
