PM Holds Meeting to Discuss China Threat


New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS): Amid reports of China's deployment of troops in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to review China's recent posturing and India's options of dealing with it.

Senior Cabinet ministers, including Defence Minister A. K. Antony, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna were among those who attended the meeting.

India's ambassador to China S. Jaishankar briefed the ministers at the meeting that discussed how best to deal with China's perceived aggressiveness towards issues critical to India's sovereignty.

The meeting came amid reports that China has deployed about 11,000 troops in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Jammu and Kashmir which has been held by Pakistan.

The 90-minute meeting discussed the recent denial of a visa to a senior Indian general commanding the northern sector, which includes Jammu and Kashmir which is seen here as an attempt by China to question India's sovereignty over Jammu and Kashmir.

India had put on hold defence exchanges after Beijing's refusal to allow the visit.

The crucial meeting ended with a consensus among ministers to adopt a firm attitude towards China, specially over issues that question India's sovereignty over its territory, but agreed that the message should be conveyed in such a manner so as not to upset the larger relationship, sources said.

The meeting also discussed what Krishna described in parliament as Beijing's "more than normal interests" in the Indian Ocean region.

"The government of India has come to realise that China has been showing more than normal interest in the Indian Ocean affairs. So we are closely monitoring the Chinese intentions," Krishna told Lok Sabha.

 

  

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  • ISMAIL K PERINJE, PERINJE/YANBU-KSA

    Wed, Sep 01 2010

    China is a biggest threat for India not Pak as some of us thinks.All cross boarder terrorism and even naxalism were suported indirectly by China.We can not believe China not under the cicumstances but long before.This is really a serious security issue and as per the prevailing situation we have to make stretagy to counter China's venture.

    ONE INTERSETING STORY TO MY SURPRSIE WAS IN KSA. THERE ARE SO MANY CHINESE COMPANIES OPERATING BUT OTHER THAN CHINESE, THEIR MAIN HIRING WERE FROM PAK AND THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED TO HIRE INDIANS THAT MADE ME TO GO FOR AN ENQUERY WITH CHINESE FRIENDS AND THE ANS WAS.........!!!! THEN THE QUESTION ARISES WHY OUR MARKET ARE FLOODED WITH CHINESE PRODUCTS AND WHY WE ARE AWARDING CONTRACT TO CHINESE COS IN INDIA???IT SHOULD BE IN RESIPROCAL WAY.RELATIONSHIPS ARE NOT ONE WAY TRRAFIC.TIME IS UP FOR INDIA TO THINK AND ACT CAUSIOUSLY.

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  • aboobaker uppala, uppala/Holy Makkah

    Wed, Sep 01 2010

    MR.KESHAVA,BE POSITIVE AND BE MATURED SOME TIMES..DONT DIG FOR THE NEGATIVES ALWAYS.YOU ARE SAFE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT.

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  • Mohan H Naik, Mangaluru

    Tue, Aug 31 2010


    but agreed that the message should be conveyed in such a manner so as not to upset the larger relationship, sources said.
    LARGER RELATIONSHIP? TIBETIAN ISSUE HAS ALREADY BACK BACK FIRED OUR RELATION LONGBACK AND PAKIS ARE ENCASHING DRAGON'S THIS SENTIMENT.

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  • Keshava, Puttur

    Tue, Aug 31 2010

    By the time PM holds talk, the chinese troop will enter into Kashmir. They will join hands with Paki army and you can imagine rest. Oh my god, save our country!!

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