THE CHINESE penetration into central Asia is complete. A strategic win on both political as well as economic fronts. They have successfully displaced our nation in each and every sphere of both economic and energy endeavours in Asia, South America and Africa today. We have today lost a war, not a physical one but a real one on the “Politiceoconomic’ front with repercussions being felt in our strategic ties with many south and central Asian, American and African countries. I have warned many times of this impending threat in my previous articles in ‘merinews’ but to no avail. The Chinese will surely enter Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh as and when their central committee so opines without our political system mustering enough strength or political will to contain them by either engaging them with fire arms or by diplomacy.
For them we are only a diplomatic orchestra, our bandwagon starts hooting only when stepped upon without the strength to bite where it pains. The Chinese consider us an empty bag of wits and ego only. The Chinese defence has quadrupled than ours and is a generation more advanced than ours. Their Army no more is quantative but qualitatively strategically placed vis-à-vis ours. This is the result of political dedication and height of patriotism to levels unthinkable by our politicians. I hope our government will wake up from its slumber and do something about it. As a first we should start building our infrastructure then the military and the rest will itself follow suit. It might be a possibility that some quarters might have sold our country for a fistful of dollars to the Chinese hence keeping us weak vis-à-vis our border development and strategic ties cum treaties.
They have secured the Deep Sea Exploration and mining of Natural resources in the Indian Ocean with Sri Lanka southern Chinese port city now fully operational. Their rail and road networks from Beijing to Nepal, From Beijing to Kathmandu, and From Beijing to Kabul via Ladakh and via another route through Pamir Knott are secure and functional. The Gadder port is complete with a road and rail link to South Afghanistan and Iran. The Chinese have too taken this port city on lease the same way as POK and Aksai Chin. The recent talk’s failure with Bangladesh on the ‘Thista’ river will again have Bangladesh too lease a port city to china.
Today, the ‘China National Petroleum Corp’ has successfully but unofficially won the contract of three oil blocks in northern block. This has been accomplished by offering the highest royalty of about 15%, corporate tax of 30%, unmatched till date by any other competing country. They have not only kicked us Indians out but also have vanquished our chance of an economic tie up with Afghanistan. They are readying to build a refinery and a petroleum Hub for both in-house and out bound outsourced oil and gas hub out of central Asian countries. A similar strategy was adopted in to gain access to African resources. In Africa, producer of 12 percent of the world’s crude, Chinese companies have promised billions of dollars in aid, investment and loans for its energy supplies. Amu Darya Basin was approved by the mines ministry’s to allow China to drill for oil in three blocks of the Amu Darya basin, a geological zone that extends into Turkmenistan, Khazikistan and Uzbekistan.
This is a prelude for it to start chasing bigger Afghan reserves. The Afghan-Tajik Basin, a geological zone in the northeast, is estimated to hold 2 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and natural-gas liquids along with gas deposits equivalent to 1.9 billion barrels of oil,
These deals with Afghanistan will also boost China’s position as its neighbour’s biggest foreign investor after a state company won the right in 2007 to mine the biggest copper deposits in Afghanistan by pledging to rebuild Afghanistan. This way the Chinese will both explore and develop not only Afghanistan’s rich natural resource base especially Uranium deposits but the entire regions. The Chinese will build Roadways, coal mines, power plants, smelters and railroads across length and breadth of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Chinese are keenly pursuing Afghan deals for commercial, strategic, political and resource-security reasons all combined.
There is another reason that China is developing the infrastructure in its northern most regions as global warming is opening up greener pastures and also The Afghan oil blocks the Aynak copper deposit, south of Kabul, lie within 400 miles (640 kilometres) of China’s western frontier hence the above road and rail links are a boon. Developing and importing resources from across that border will help accelerate economic development in its border province of Xinjiang and may force Mongolia to join Chinese union. The 800 km rail line will connect Ayank in Afghanistan with Beijing.
I hope and wish I someday would be writing about India being the New Asian Tiger and not China. A lot depends upon our political system and its will. We are a proud nation with a proud population which is united, equal, sovereign but not healthy and prosperous in true sense of the words. We will be healthy and prosperous as and when we are corruption free and standing true and tall with our age old traditions and value system intact at the core of our governance and the hearts of the people once again.
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