Jintao – We welcome you

India always had very complex relationship with China. Everybody knows about professional rivalism between two countries, especially when it comes to Services and Production Industry.

However, on political front, India and China have long standing bickering over borders. Areas under concern are Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh, which China refers as South Tibet.

As of today, Tibet is considered as Chinese sovereignty and India has traditional trading rights in this region. We, as Indians, have accepted this and respect Tibetian borders.

I have always believed that Tibet should have been under India’s control but I will discuss that later in some other post.

However, China has now ‘again’ started attacking Arunachal Pradesh, which is unacceptable.

It was a bad move by Chinese Ambassador,Sun Yuxi,when he claimed that Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory. Especially when president Hu Jintao is on his way to India.

Brief History — During British Raj, in Simla Conference (year 1913-1914), a 550 mile line (known as McMahon Line) was drawn as border between British India and Republic of China. The Simla Conference was attended by Tibetian and British representatives. Since China didn’t have any officer attending the conference, and they claim historical sovereignty over Tibet, they refuse to accept this aggreement. Point to note is that during the period of Simla Conference, Tibet had declared itself independent and hence they had authority to negotiate with India. Britain and Soviet Union considered the Simla Convention as a bilateral accord.
My take — British crown again played it’s trump card by keeping all parties in dark and the document vague. Classic divide and rule trick.

I guess Jintao sole purpose of this trip should be to promote political stability and economic development for both India and China.
He should not open can of worms by discussing borders.

After all Nehru taught us, Hindi-Chini bhai bhai.