3. NUMBER OF
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIAAND CHINA
3. WAR BETWEEN INDIAAND CHINA
4. BORDER DEAL BETWEEN INDIAAND CHINA
5. REFERENCES
4. INTRODUCTION
While China and India’s average incomes remain low, their sustained economic
growth of recent decades combined with their enormous populations (that each exceed
the size of the OECD) has turned both countries into such large players that their
economic scale is only exceeded by the United States, and possibly Japan.2 So though a
large share of their populations remain poor, both China and India are already heavily
integrated into the rest of the world’s trade and financial flows, making their current and
future development impossible to ignore.
Most recently, as the developed world has slipped into a severe and prolonged
recession – which many observers are calling a depression – China and India stand
alone among major economies in registering positive growth, with the rest of the
world’s economies hoping that these emerging giants will help to bring the rest of the
world out of its deep morass. Nevertheless, these countries are fragile and are still in the
midst of ongoing dramatic structural reforms, facilitated by their governments in some
straightforward as well as peculiar ways.
Recently, the Chinese case has been cited as an example to the most developed
countries of the potential virtues of a state-interventionist growth model to push
through dramatic reforms, which could even be of use to market economies that are
facing difficulty. Though there are many serious proponents of this view, and numerous
5. RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIAAND CHINA
India and China are two big countries not only of Asia but also of the
world. They are two neighbouring counties and both have also preserved
their five thousand years old cultures. They are agricultural countries and
a great majority of population is rural. The lacks of villages spread all
over the country and the rural population have been the main resources
of the cultural expansion as well as of the economic growth of their
respective countries.
The characteristic of harmony that Indian and Chinese Cultures
achieved thousand of years ago made a great impact on the other
countries of the world. As China and India are neighbouring nations, the
quality of harmonization had a particular influence on the masses of the
two countries. It can be noticed in the lives of the people living in the
North-Western regions of India and of those living in the border areas of
China.
6. The Indo-Chinese relationship was established long ago in the ancient
times, on the basis of the quality of harmony present in both the cultures. It will
require writing a big book to tell in detail about the long-standing cultural ties.
However, I would like to mention in brief that it was in consequence of the
profoundness of these cultural ties that hundred of Chinese scholars were the student
of the famous Nalanda University much before the advent of Christ. The Chinese
scholars participated in Buddhist Congregations [Sangeetis] ahead of others. They
were the centre of attraction in the forth congregation [Sangeeti] held in Kashmir
during the reign of Emperor Kanishka in the first century A.D.
From the time onwards and up to the 19th century, the scholars of the two
counties visited each other and strengthened the cultural relationship. In ancient
times, if the Indian scholars like Dharmaratha, Kumarajiva, Buddhajiva,
Dharmakshema and Sanghabhuti visited China, the Chinese scholars Fa-hein, Sung-
Yun, It-Sing and Huentsang came to India. Among them Huentsang was the
Chairman of a Buddhist conference sponsored by the Indian Emperor
Harshavardhana. It is not all. The way Huentsang and Fah-Yan enriched the Indian
history by their writings, they became inseparable part of it. In other words, the
Indian history is incomplete without a mention of them. I am, therefore, in a position
to say that the Indo-Chinese cultural relationship is not a past event of history but a
reality even now.
7. THE SECRET CYBER WAR BETWEEN
INDIAAND CHINA
India discovered deadly Stuxnet internet worm from China targeting Indian
strategic installations, computers, and networks. Bangalore is striking back like
never before.
In Bangalore it’s called Chikku Sharbat. Is the nick name of Indian cyber worms
that are creating havoc in Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). No one
knows if and when India unleashed the ''Sharbat'' in Chikku-land (China). But the
Chinese in latest round have desperately unleashed the deadly Stuxnet internet
worm without being able to completely concealing the identity of the originating
identities.
While Chinese hackers are known to target Indian government websites, the scale
and sophistication of Stuxnet suggests that only a government no less than that of
countries like US, Israel or China could have done it. "I think it's more likely that
China is behind Stuxnet than any other country," says American cyber warfare
expert Jeffrey Carr.
What is just getting unveiled is the scare among the Chinese Military about Indian
Cyber Missile Chikku Sharbat originating from Bangalore.
One of the solutions may be that US Corporations should keep Bangalore busier
with outsourcing contracts so that Indian cyber hackers working in Bangalore
have less time to go after Chikkuland (China).
8. CHINAAND INDIA SIGN BORDER DEAL
India and China have signed an agreement in
Delhi aimed at resolving a long-running
dispute over their Himalayan border.
India's national security adviser said it was "one
of the most significant documents" signed by the
two countries.
The agreement was sealed as Indian premier
Manmohan Singh met visiting Chinese
Counterpart Wen Jiabao.
The world's two most populous countries fought a bitter war over
their largely unmarked border in 1962.
9. 'MAJOR PROCESS'
India's National Security Adviser MK Narayanan told Indian
television that Indian and Chinese officials had worked out a
roadmap for resolving the disputed 3,550km (2,200 mile) border.
"It shows a lot of give and take on both sides," he said.
"We are very hopeful that this document will be the starting point
of a major process in the settlement of the boundary dispute
between India and China."
The joint statement by the two countries did not go into specifics
on the issue, talking of "political parameters" and "guiding
principles".
However, China has now formally given up its claim to the state of
Sikkim.