World a better place without policing by the US and China:RSS
New Delhi | Saturday, Nov 21 2009 IST
 

Hailing India's rejection of the US-China attempts to meddle in India-Pak affairs, the RSS today said the downturn of the US economy was the 'clear compulsion' for US President Barack Obama "to sing the Chinese tune" and said the world would be a better place without their policing.

In a hard-hitting editorial, the RSS, in its mouthpiece 'Organiser', said India had done right by rejecting the joint statement of the Presidents of the two countries, whose obvious intention was to allow China a greater role in the South Asian region. Ever since Mr Obama became the US President, the India-US relations seemed adrift. The US was giving an impression of 'patronising' Pakistan by "hypenating a growing democratic India with an imploding and collapsing Pakistan". The US President, the paper noted, had misread Indian sensitivities at a time when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was unduly concerned about the US proclivities. Stating that the US had reasons to kow-tow to China, it said the country was a declining superpower whose economy was on a freefall. China was a rising power but its rude and crude intrusive diplomacy was not helpful to anyone, particularly the Asian scene. The US was fighting terror in West Asia with an eye on oil wealth. India did not need both the US or Chinese intervention in dealing with Pakistan, the article said. "The US was beholden to China and the latest pursuit of sharing a hegemonistic role in the international arena was more of a necessity for the US than the needs of ushering world peace," it said. Claiming that China had 'micro managed' Mr Obama's visit, with the US for the first time accepting the Chinese claim on Tibet ignoring the Dalai Lama's genuine worries on the future of his country and his people. China had rejected US pleas on almost all major issues including monetary policy, climate change and human rights violations. 'Obama has returned empty handed' the Organiser quoted some US journals as saying. The momentum of the India-US relations, cultivated painstakingly by former US President George W Bush was now lost. The US was abetting Pakistan and messing up the entire West Asia.

India's geopolitical interests were at variance with the US interests in the region. The India-US nuclear treaty was welcomed by a majority of Indians because of shared democratic values, free society and trade benefits, it said.

Conversely, the majority of Indians look at China warily if not with dislike and trepidation because China not only made unreasonable claims on Indian territory but helped Pakistan acquire nuclear arsenal and also opposed India at every international forum. "President Obama failed to appreciate this," the RSS mouthpiece observed, asserting that India was under no obligation either to China or the US to allow them to interfere in bilateral affairs.

-- (UNI) -- 21DI20.xml

 

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