Comments by "神州 Shenzhou" (@Shenzhou.) on "China asks India to begin a new chapter" video.
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China's dream is to make Asia strong, by building infrastructure in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh as well as in South Africa, like Angola, Djibouti, Kenya, etc. But Indian government always oppose Chinese road building in Kashmir and even Donglong/Doklam, which is not even Indian territory in the first place. Chinese government have stressed repeatedly that India is welcome to participate in Belt and Road Initiative, but Indian government doesn't want in, but in the end, China respect India's wishes if it doesn't want to join OBOR.
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+Smith During 1950s, Zhou Enlai proposed Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence 和平共处五项原则 to define the China-India relations. Zhou Enlai visited New Delhi four times, whereas PM Nehru only visited Beijing once, so who is being more sincere here? Nehru refused to sit down to negotiations, and instead pursued an aggressive "Forward" policy of building military bases at our disputed border, even extending beyond the international line and into actual Chinese territory. There were eventually 60 such outposts, including 43 north of the McMahon Line.
+Sam D China does not force India to join in Belt and Road Initiative if it doesn't want to.
As for US's approach to Pakistan, its goal is to invade Pakistan, just like what US did to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other Middle Eastern countries. The US approach to wiping out terrorism is to bomb those lands, which result many civilian casualties. Because of this, people become angry with USA, or their own government for letting US invade, so they flock join the terrorists instead and the whole cycle continues. For example, Al Qaeda is originally trained by CIA, but they rebelled against America and become terrorist. The rise of ISIS can also be attributed to US constant meddling in Middle Eastern countries. Whenever one terrorist group is exterminated, another one pops up to replace it, and therefore, this approach is short term and doesn't solve the problem of terrorism.
China's approach is different from USA. People join terrorists groups because they are poor, unemployed, lacking in education or harbor resentment against USA or their own country's problems. So what China is doing, is helping to build up Pakistan's economy, so that more people find jobs and less people join terrorists. The terrorists will slowly find themselves with a shrinking pool of willing recruits, if the country's economy improves. This approach is long-term, and could hopefully solve/reduce the problem of terrorism, by making people less desperate to join the terrorists and is arguably better than USA spending money to bomb those countries instead.
But of course it will take time to build up an entire country's economy and stabilize its government. This is not something that can be achieved at the snap of fingers, like USA ordering an invasion of Middle East. USA has been fighting wars in Middle East for 15 years, with not end in sight, so what makes you think their method is the best approach? Why not spend the money meant on investing to develop the country's infrastructure instead of wasting it on wars?
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+Sam D Are you sure India is self-reliant? Indian army still purchases weapons and military hardware from USA and Russia for defense so how is India self-reliant, when its defensive capabilities depends on these to countries continued support? Unless you can manufacture your own weapons and military, India wouldn't be able to act in its own interests when its defenses rely on imported hardware.
Even if you claim that terrorism in Pakistan is because of state-support, it is primary because Pakistan views India as a threat which is why it wants to acquire weapons to defend itself. Remember that India supported Bangladesh independence from Western Pakistan, causing Pakistan to lose more of its territory, so it is constantly under further threat from India. Whether the threat is imagined or not, Pakistan feels that this threat is very real.
There is nothing China can do about Pakistan's hostility towards India. Right now, Pakistan government is probably investing more money into the country's defense and its army, instead of its economy. What China hopes to achieve with CPEC is to develop Pakistan's economy, so that Pakistan government will be tempted to spend more on developing its growing economy, instead of on acquiring new weapons. Terrorism may be Pakistan's bargaining chip at the moment, but once CPEC is complete, and Pakistan's economy kicks off, then Pakistan government will begin to see more value in protecting its growing economy, and less value in maintaining terrorist assets (which serve to disrupt economic trade and create unrest that's all)
India and Pakistan have already been fighting for 70 over years, so how long do you expect your countries to continue on like this? Imagine another 70 years later, and India and Pakistan still fighting each other, instead of mending relations long ago. CPEC is opportunity for both India and Pakistan to finally end their feud and to promote economic prosperity instead, and China would welcome any Indian support for CPEC. Once India and Pakistan economies become linked, it become harder for terrorists to attack such a link, knowing that it will also damage Pakistan's economy as well isn't it? Thus, the Pakistan government will become less likely to support terrorism in favor of promoting trade instead.
Like I mentioned, you people only focus on short term issues and ignore the long term issues altogether. Pakistan has known no other way to make a living, except for extremist activities, so why not introduce it to economic trade instead?
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