Chinese actions on India border, South China Sea, Taiwan and Hong Kong “stimulant and destabilizing”
The new Chinese actions across the border with India and those from the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and in Hong Kong are”provocative and destabilising”, a former top American diplomat has said.
The Indian and Chinese armies have been locked in a bitter standoff at multiple places in eastern Ladakh for more than eight weeks as May 5. The tension escalated manifold after a violent conflict in Galwan Valley where 20 Indian Army personnel were murdered.
The Chinese side also suffered casualties but it is yet to give out the specifics. Both sides have held several rounds of military and diplomatic discussions in the last few weeks to ease tension in the area.
Tensions had escalated into eastern Ladakh about two months ago later around 250 Indian and Chinese soldiers had been engaged in a barbarous face-off on May 6 and 5.
“Chinese actions, not only on the border with India, but in the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and in Hong Kong, were provocative and destabilizing,” former US Ambassador to India Rich Verma stated.
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China claims practically all of the disputed South China Sea, though Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of it. Beijing has built artificial islands and army installations from the South China Sea.
“A central pillar of our partnership today rests on an entirely free and open Indo-Pacific, a commitment to the rule of law, to international standards, the peaceful settlement of disputes and the rules-based sequence in Asia,” Verma said, including that any country that acts contrary to these principles places that order in danger.
The US has been pushing to get a broader role by India from the strategically important Indo-Pacific region.
India, the US and many other world powers have been talking about the requirement to make sure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China”s climbing military maneuvering in the area.
“Back in 1959, then Senator Kennedy stated in a stirring address on the Senate floor that “the hinge of fate in Asia” rests with India, and that India needed a “special importance” Symbolizing for all Asia the testing ground for democracy,” Verma said.
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Kennedy was right in 1959 in devoting his powerful support for India, and American leaders would be appropriate to be unequivocal in their support for India again today, he said.
It is due to the hardworking practitioners of the State Department, Defense Department, and other US government agencies, as well as Congress, which America’s venture with India stays on course, he said.
But this is a relationship that needs special attention, and encourage specifically for the people-to-people ties. After all, it’s the people who make up the basis for virtually any advancement that the two governments make, stated Verma, who functioned as the top American diplomat in India during the next term of their Obama Administration.
“With this score, I am worried about increasing limitations on the movement of Indian nationals, such as pupils, to the United States. As an Indian American, I’m particularly concerned about growing intolerance, racism and bigotry directed at Asian Americans, fuelled by leaders who believe it’s clever politics to divide the nation,” Verma said.
The Indian-American ambassador to India likewise termed as the Trump government’s decision to expel foreign students pursuing only online courses “senseless and closed-minded”.
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“Foreign students contribute to US prosperity and prosperity, and forcing them dwelling during a worldwide outbreak is heartless. Harvard and MIT, joined by hundreds of other colleges and universities, have filed suit to block the arrangement, which I am hopeful will undo this foolish policy,” Verma said.
He claimed that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a great friend of India and was an advocate of the partnership for years.
“I don’t speak for the Biden effort, but I could state I have understood and worked with Joe Biden for nearly 20 decades, first in the Senate if he was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and then later from the Obama Administration when he had been Vice President,” he said.
I remember when I worked in the Senate he gave an important speech talking about how if in 2024 the usa and India would be the closest friends and partners, then the world is going to be a safer place,” he said.
“He was right then when he first made those remarks in the early 2000s, and there’s absolutely no question he will be a steady, dependable partner that will elevate US-India ties to new heights.
