Why is India worried about China Pakistan (ChiPak) nexus?

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Why is India worried about China Pakistan (ChiPak) nexus?

Posted on 28 November 2009. Tags: China, ChiPak, India, Pakistan

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Bharati (aka Indian) analysts are increasingly worried about the growing nexus between Pakistan and China–increasingly called as “Chipak” on the pattern of “ChiAmerica”. Many analysts are beginning to see the world divided among the two superpowers China and America (ChiAmerica) and the regional force in at least West and South Asia being ChiPak. With the US increasingly looking after the Americas and Europe, it would be natural to give China the areas in which it has the greatest influence already–Asia and Africa. Why ‘Chinusa’, Chipak will rule the world & why Chindia failed–An Indian perspective

Chinese Pakistani Nexus map. The Trade between China and Pakistan consolidates a friendship as old as the Himalayas. Bharati (aka Indian) analysts are increasingly worried about the growing nexus between Pakistan and China--increasingly called as "Chipak" on the pattern of "ChiAmerica". Many analysts are beginning to see the world divided among the two superpowers China and America (ChiAmerica) and the regional force in at least West and South Asia being ChiPak. With the US increasingly looking after the Americas and Europe, it would be natural to give China the areas in which it has the greatest influence already--Asia and Africa. Why ‘Chinusa’, Chipak will rule the world & why Chindia failed–An Indian perspective

There were hopes in Delhi for “Chindia”, however Delhi is neither liked nor has any influence in any of the Asian countries. All her neighbors despise her, and in areas where Indians (independent of Official Delhi) had influence (Dubai), the new economic crisis has not only diminished the economic clout of the Bharatis, the financial bankruptcies have reverse impacted huge chunks of India–most notably Karela whose GDP was plugged into the surpluses from Dubai.

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“It seemed to suggest that India had simply fallen between two stools – Pakistan and China were urgent priorities for different reasons,” Editorial in the Indian Express newspaper Monday, November 23rd, 2009.

We may aspire to a seat at the high table of world power but China is already sitting at the head of the table along with the United States,”…”It has enough IOUs in its pocket to stop anyone from pushing it around. We also are a billion-strong nation, a democracy to boot and growing economically at a still impressive rate given the global conditions. But, realistically speaking, we are a second or perhaps third tier force in the eyes of the United States.” Journalist Gautam Adhikari in the Times of India Monday.

NEW DELHI (AFP) – India on Friday voiced ‘serious concern’ over what it termed a military nexus between its neighbours China and Pakistan, warning that New Delhi would try and match Beijing’s growing firepower.

Defence Minister AK Antony said India hoped to improve fractious relations with regional countries but that it must remain vigilant about ties between Pakistan and China.

The trade between Pakistan and China is as old as the Himalayas. Today the nexus between two of the powers of the ancient world are impacting the world. Bharati (aka Indian) analysts are increasingly worried about the growing nexus between Pakistan and China--increasingly called as "Chipak" on the pattern of "ChiAmerica". Many analysts are beginning to see the world divided among the two superpowers China and America (ChiAmerica) and the regional force in at least West and South Asia being ChiPak. With the US increasingly looking after the Americas and Europe, it would be natural to give China the areas in which it has the greatest influence already--Asia and Africa. Why ‘Chinusa’, Chipak will rule the world & why Chindia failed–An Indian perspective

“The increasing nexus between China and Pakistan in the military sphere remains an area of serious concern,” Antony told a seminar in New Delhi. “We have to carry out continuous appraisals of Chinese military capabilities and shape our responses accordingly.”

In the latest cross-border spat, China recently conveyed its ‘strong dissatisfaction’ over the Dalai Lama’s trip to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh which is claimed in full by Beijing.
Antony repeated Indian criticism of arch-rival Pakistan, accusing it of failing to take responsibility for the attacks in Mumbai last year that left 166 people dead.

Monitoring Desk adds: India hopes that international opinion and its pressure combined with refusal attitude, India has strengthened its security manifold and is now better prepared in comparison to what it was an year ago.

The did not support Manmohan Singh’s request for US support to Delhi for its quest for a United Nations Security Council seat. The UN Security Council expansion must include Pakistan & OIC. The 123 Nuclear deal was also not operationalized. Pakistan was not pressured into submission. China and the US talked about a lot of projects which would reshape the world.

So, what’s in store for India? The only option available to India is junior partnership with both US and China. We can only have a buyer-seller ties with them. They sell and we buy. They sell their nuclear reactors and fighter jets and bankrupt companies to us and we save their economy with our hard cash. It’s the same situation with China. Shobhan Saxena Times of India

Singh failed in the main objective of his visit – to ”operationalise” the nuclear deal concluded in the Bush era. While Obama pledged to ”fully implement” the agreement, potentially crucial details of nuclear technology transfers to India have not been finalised. Matt Wade Herald Correspondent SMH Australia

The JF-17 Thunder is not just an icon of the Chinese and Pakistani cooperation–it signals a story of a nexus which will be dominant force in Asia and beyond. Pakistan has tremendous influence on the Hejaz peninsula that extends to many Arab countries. Africa is important to China. Pakistan and Turkey are very good friends, and their influence in the six Central Asian Republics of former USSR is only growing. The SCO formed to dampen the security threats emanating from the attack on Afghanistan is maturing into a Chinese Club. The ECO overlaps the SCO and Pakistan is a major player in the SCO.

These factors reduce the influence of Bharat, and increase the potent threat from the ChiPak nexus.

The value of the nuclear deal, which was about much more than peaceful nuclear energy, lies in its tactile strength, but Delhi and Washington have begun stretching in different ways. Singh expected it to be the launchpad of strategic and economic privileges. Condoleezza Rice did, a trifle gratuitously, promise to make India a superpower.

But that was so last year. This year, the broad Democrat view is that Bush surrendered too much on core issues like proliferation for too little, and this is payback time for India. This is compounded, in Delhi, by the apprehension that India does not occupy primary space on the specific Obama agenda. The cynical interpretation is that India has been allotted 1.5 billion words a year and Pakistan 1.5 billion dollars.
with a ‘best friend’ or was it a substantive document capable of survival beyond the predilections of a president? But there is a hard question behind the glitter. Singh signed a landmark nuclear deal with Bush last year. Was that a mere sentimental knot ? M.J. Akbar, Deccan Herald.

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There is increasing discontent in Bharati political circles about the state of affairs of Indo-US relations. here is a sampling.

”In a nutshell, Singh got a nice state ceremony, China got respect as an equal and Pakistan has got billions of dollars of additional US aid,” said Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. ”India will have to be satisfied with the sumptuous dinner.”

While we [India] were deluding ourselves with Chindia (that China and India will call the shots in the future) and hetting paranoid about Chi-Pak (China and Pakistan are encircling India from two sides), US and China forged a new relationship. And the basis of this relationship is: that they will have their spheres of influence – east, south east and south Asia and Africa for China; and Europe and Latin America for the US. So, it was not just a coincidence that Obama gave China the role of monitor in South Asia. Shobhan Saxena Times of India

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