India & China should explore evolving workable relations on its Eastern periphery
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 14th Oct. 2016
While the issues pertaining to lack of respect for global norms/rules regards sea based rights remain an issue, the lack of a coherent policy to stop competitive terror sports in its neighbor are added. While the plans to invest and keep terror infra intact may not have any support, the plans to invest in India’s eastern periphery, seem more reasonable though, as long as the obnoxious elements like terror, drugs etc. are out of ambit of admissible tools and security concerns can be taken into account. Such a project should allow market access for manufactures into China’s own vast markets for ‘all’ the entrepreneurs participating in the projects irrespective of their country of origin. The effort should be to look at widely spreading opportunities for entrepreneurs of countries willing to participate and harness these including those from India rather than bolstering military presence in the region.
For the Chinese corporate, it may imply continued employment of its heavy engineering/Capital goods sector and support for migration of labour intensive industries to more competitive areas supported by Chinese finance for creation of supporting infrastructure. This should help in expansion of vast domestic markets in the region immediately east of India. The active participation of India could be basis it having access to commodity resources, effective transit, cultural and social relations like investment projects to develop entertainment and news media, developing its own extensions to Chinese connectivity projects, security interests which should be facilitated rather than undermined.
Continued resistance to such ‘development proposals’ by Indian political class only depicts ‘sort of’ fundamentalism about cultural superiority which might already be history. India no longer is a ‘center of learning’ as was the case during its golden age. Our faculties of learning in medicine, engineering, sciences, economics or arts etc. are decrepit at best in their present state and impact of this is seen vastly in our everyday life where foreign trained workers often hold much higher positions in business as well as in social hierarchy within India (and quite widely so) although we keep thumping chests as signs of Indian prodigy, when some of them manages to climb ladders with any of the global organizations. The foreign trained journos in commercial news media would not make a mention of their schooling, but of the cultural identity of such persons as if a triumph of culture and soft power, rather than of one’s own ingenuity. This could be even when such person may have been living with quite different cultural values altogether. The ‘gurus’ in their assault to ‘sell’ courseware to their disciples may have some similar stories. And of course the Indian manufacturing and trade prowess is much detailed and nearly ‘all’ know the extent of slippage there.
India’s quest for development would require it to have support from multiple quarters rather than isolating itself or attempting to isolate some of the powers that may be able to provide some support. While security needs may have their importance however need for a balance may be required to be evaluated so that development and progress of people isn’t hampered on account of security. Of course any trust of foreign powers much be basis reciprocity on the count.
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 14th Oct. 2016
While the issues pertaining to lack of respect for global norms/rules regards sea based rights remain an issue, the lack of a coherent policy to stop competitive terror sports in its neighbor are added. While the plans to invest and keep terror infra intact may not have any support, the plans to invest in India’s eastern periphery, seem more reasonable though, as long as the obnoxious elements like terror, drugs etc. are out of ambit of admissible tools and security concerns can be taken into account. Such a project should allow market access for manufactures into China’s own vast markets for ‘all’ the entrepreneurs participating in the projects irrespective of their country of origin. The effort should be to look at widely spreading opportunities for entrepreneurs of countries willing to participate and harness these including those from India rather than bolstering military presence in the region.
For the Chinese corporate, it may imply continued employment of its heavy engineering/Capital goods sector and support for migration of labour intensive industries to more competitive areas supported by Chinese finance for creation of supporting infrastructure. This should help in expansion of vast domestic markets in the region immediately east of India. The active participation of India could be basis it having access to commodity resources, effective transit, cultural and social relations like investment projects to develop entertainment and news media, developing its own extensions to Chinese connectivity projects, security interests which should be facilitated rather than undermined.
Continued resistance to such ‘development proposals’ by Indian political class only depicts ‘sort of’ fundamentalism about cultural superiority which might already be history. India no longer is a ‘center of learning’ as was the case during its golden age. Our faculties of learning in medicine, engineering, sciences, economics or arts etc. are decrepit at best in their present state and impact of this is seen vastly in our everyday life where foreign trained workers often hold much higher positions in business as well as in social hierarchy within India (and quite widely so) although we keep thumping chests as signs of Indian prodigy, when some of them manages to climb ladders with any of the global organizations. The foreign trained journos in commercial news media would not make a mention of their schooling, but of the cultural identity of such persons as if a triumph of culture and soft power, rather than of one’s own ingenuity. This could be even when such person may have been living with quite different cultural values altogether. The ‘gurus’ in their assault to ‘sell’ courseware to their disciples may have some similar stories. And of course the Indian manufacturing and trade prowess is much detailed and nearly ‘all’ know the extent of slippage there.
India’s quest for development would require it to have support from multiple quarters rather than isolating itself or attempting to isolate some of the powers that may be able to provide some support. While security needs may have their importance however need for a balance may be required to be evaluated so that development and progress of people isn’t hampered on account of security. Of course any trust of foreign powers much be basis reciprocity on the count.