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Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within. Close.

M.J. Akbar

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Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. more »

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China's Nuclear Pawns

New Delhi, India - North Korea's nuclear capacities could not have survived one day without Chinese support. Now, China has gained strategically from the North Korean test, and steps in.

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Akbar had more wealth than all the kings of Europe put together.
On the other hand the Chinese empire had the best goverment for almost 2ooo years.


Population of India is more heterogenous. China is almost 80% Han chinese.
This makes India a little more vulnerable to its enemies.

After nearly 60 years when European Imperialists were forced to give up their empires at the end of WW2, they are once again thinking hard of how to play the old game of divide and rule.

Both India and China know that they cannot afford to creat enemies on their borders.

India,China and Russia need to keep imperilistic forces at bay.
They will fail to do so if they antagonise their neighbours and each other.

The Arabs are already looking towards the Chinese. The visit to China and India by King Abdulla of Saudi Arabia is important.
India will not gain by antagonising the Iranians and siding with the West.
It should stay clear of the Shia /Sunni divide.

Time will come when both India and China,and Russia will be able to fend off the Western imperilistic powers for which and the Arabs and the Turks and the Persians will feel obliged.

After all see what a mess they have created in Iraq. They have impoverised a whole region. With a million refugees in Jordan and over half a million Iraqi refugees in Syria and the worst is not yet over.


Read the "King Leopold's ghost" a book by Adam Horschild, that President Bush said he read on his vacation (about the plunder of the African nation of Congo about a century ago).
At that time the Belgian King claimed his went into Congo to bring "civilisation" to Africa and ended up killing almost half of its population in lieu for rubber plantations.

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I agree with MJ Akbar in entirety when he says that the N.Korean bomb would not be possible without the Chinese support. In fact, it was the smartest move, that the Chinese could have made - it just reaffirmed both the need, relevance and continued importance that China seeks for itself, both in regional as well as global politics. A coup of sorts, as this bomb has now limited both S.Korea and US influence in the region. It has also kept the Korean peninsula in turmoil, a situation that China might benefit from. A unified Korea with US backing is the last thing that the Chinese might want.

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This Indian commentator is typical of a sour grape idiot. You are way too self-important in coming up with this "Chinese scheme" of antagonizing India. You used China as the excuse to develop your nuclear arsenal, then blame it for "allowing" Pakistan and North Korea to develop their own. The whole world knows that Pakistan has a legitimate reason to test a bomb after India did so. North Korea has brought nothing but trouble to China. With China's single-mindedness on economic growth, North Korea is just a nuisance that it cannot waive away --- but it's nothing comparing to the importance of its economic relationships with South Korea and Japan, which are true trading nations, unlike the insecure and paranoid India.

Susenjit Guha, Kolkata, India:

And all this will happen when Bush's mettle, Bushism's and the staying power of Rad-Cons will be put to test.

The hype about nuclear weapons, the urgency to acquire nuclear fuels for bomb making, the desperate attempt to test a WWII vintage as soon as possible to ward off any US pretentions of a pre-emptive strike, can be directly linked to the Bush(II) years in the White House.

While we wait with bated breath for the results of the US mid term elections, there is no doubt about the wish of a large section of people all over the world. They nurse a desire to see Bush and the Republicans reduced to mere figure-heads for the rest of their tenure.

Saddam's hurried death sentence,packaged to ensure victory, may not please average Americans who are having second thoughts of a 'war president', who promised VE scenes in Iraq in 2002, only to offer hopes for a victory.

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John of Omaha,
Your perception about China is way lagged behind of time. China today is totally different from the China of Mao Tsetung's era. It now has HUGE economic ties with South Korea, Japan, and the U.S.. For this reason alone, it can not stand any nuclear threat from North Korea against its economic partners. In fact, I'm speculating that China would welcome a reunification of Korea by South Korea, provided that the unified Korea will be an even closer partner of China.

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John of Omaha:

You are a typical idiot like those that plague this nation for too long: from Vietnam to today's Iraq. Trade embargo against China? US-China trade is even smaller than that of Japan-China! You know the U.S. borrowed a close to a trilion dollars from China? Can you really economically boycott your bank to which you owe a $300,000 mortgage?

John, Omaha, USA:

North Korea might have the bomb with Chinese approval. But, China went ahead because the USA has never hit them where it hurts - with trade. The USA could achieve its interests best if it enacted a total trade embargo on China. The beast would cripple, slow and starve.

George, Washington:

Is America scared of China or is this article in support of "Human Rights" for Terrorists ?

Bottom Line is One wants to be Super Power and Other wants to maintain its Current Status as Super Power. Dose anyone really respect Human life in countries other than their own?

Jinnha, Pakistan:

Mr Ghandi,
There are people out there who think at the back of their mind that "If India were eliminated...." and this is the reason India needs to think at the back of their

Henry, San Diego:

Laughable commentary.

You give too much credit to the Chinese.

And what about the recent development of the United States government making public of classified information regarding atomic weapons construction? The United States is the one country that couldn't care less about nuclear proliferation as long as the weapons are not aimed at them.

Anonymous:

Haha. Mr. Salaman, I know China has it's problems, but it has only feed the growing monsters. Not to mention, the United States and United Nations has been watching over them as well. Have them truly tried to stop them? No. They just made it worse.

Steve, Sand Diego, USA:

Very good Mr. Chalmers. I wish I could explain just how accurate you are.

Ghandi, India:


A loser's complain.

The first rogue state is India, which set off the first bomb and claimed it's a peaceful device, and caused the whole chain reaction.

If India were eliminated at that time, the world won't have so much problems.

Bruce Chalmers,Ottawa,Canada:

China has to be the worst country in the world... wherever there is a major conflagaration...N.Korea,Pakistan, Iran or Sudan you can rest assured that China has its ugly head nearby.....What a disgrace.

Salamon, Canada:

I agree with Mr. Akbar's analysis. North Korea will talk, but will not give up its Nuclear technology, for such technology is defensive against USA. I am positive that N. Korea appriciates the economic investment of China and S. Korea, and will keep talking with the probable explicit acknowledgement that these economic ties will not be broken while the jaws are working. The name of the game is GO, which is extremely well developed in China, Koreas and almost totally unknown in USA. I disagree with Mr. Krauze's analysis for the two greatest players in the sanction game, China and S. Korea only talked the talk, but refused to walk [each for its best perceived interest regarding a possible collapse of N. Korea, were the sanctions successful].


Each had a fear of N. Korea's collapse, being neighbors, they would had to face the consequences. The USA is too far away to care abpout such collapse, and its recent actions in Afganistan, Iraq and Lebanon clearly indicates that they do not care about anybody's economy/well being [friend or foe] when the chips are down.

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