Play hardball with China

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh once again pooh-poohed the threat from China, this time on December 14 in Parliament which undercuts the raison détre for the India-Japan-United States strategic discussion. Originally planned for mid-October, it was postponed at the eleventh hour because, predictably, the Indian government felt queasy about angering China. An alternative explanation is that, in order to multiply Beijing’s apprehensions, this trialogue was deliberately slated for December 19 to serve as curtain raiser for the state visit by the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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