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Sikkim and India-China relations
Posted: 05/11/2010 11:21 The Indian Express, 18 May 2008 Tip of Sikkim is latest India-China flashpoint New Delhi: China has surprised India by laying claim on a small tract of land in North Sikkim, even threatening this week to demolish existing stone structures there. India has strongly rebutted these claims, lodged an official protest and barred Chinese troops from entering the area. Referred to as the "Finger Area" by Indian armed forces, this territory falls north of Gyangyong in Sikkim and overlooks a strategically important valley known as the Sora Funnel... More >> India-Africa summit, April 2008 Posted: 05/11/2010 11:20 India will ease access for exports from the world´s poorest countries, the prime minister said on Tuesday, as he opened a summit with African leaders with calls for fairer global economic and political representation. Hosting leaders from more than a dozen African nations as it tries to emerge from China´s shadow on the continent, India is expected to offer its skills in low-cost services and industry in return for access to rich natural resources and food supplies. But Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was clearly also eyeing political benefits, with India pursuing a seat on any expanded United Nations Security Council to match its growing... More >> Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet Posted: 05/11/2010 11:19 The Asian Age, 8 April 2008 Tibet worries Arunachal Tawang: The Arunachal Pradesh government is concerned over developments in Tibet and have urged the sizeable Buddhist population in the state to maintain calm. "We are concerned about what is happening in Tibet ... We have ensured that calm prevails in the state," chief minister Dorjee Khandu told a group of visiting reporters here on Sunday. Tawang, the picturesque monastery town surrounded by snow-clad Himalayan peaks, has a dominant Buddhist population known as Monpas, who regard the Dalai Lama as their spiritual head... More >> India-China borders Posted: 05/11/2010 11:19 The Asian Age, 7 April 2008 Antony stresses N-E infrastructure New Delhi: Defence minister A.K. Antony on Sunday visited Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh and met Indian troops deployed on the border areas of the Sino-Indian border. In a significant message, Mr Antony said that "infrastructure development in the Northeast is now a top priority for the government". Mr Antony also visited the Tawang war memorial (dedicated to the Indian soldiers who died in the 1962 Sino-Indian war) and laid a wreath. This visit was also significant, sending out a message that India has not forgotten the sacrifices of her soldiers... More >> China´s Cyber Warfare Posted: 05/11/2010 11:18 M Shamsur Rabb Khan Freelancer e-mail: samsur.khan@gmail.com China´s intensified cyber warfare against India is becoming a serious threat to national security. The desire to possess ´electronic dominance´ over India has compelled Chinese hackers to attack many crucial Indian websites and over the past one and a half years, they have mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks - both government and private. In October 2007, for example, Chinese hackers defaced over 143 Indian websites. A recent attack on a website called www.cabsec.gov.in, which is the nerve centre of the country´s administration, was particularly hostile,... More >> China´s navy Posted: 05/11/2010 11:16 The Indian Express, 27 August 2008 China works on matching India´s naval fleet New Delhi: China is set to get its first functional aircraft carrier -- a refurbished Soviet-era Kiev class warship -- by 2012 and will use it exclusively to train Navy personnel for the three indigenous carriers it plans to induct over the next decade. While it is a known fact that the defunct Varyag aircraft carrier that was purchased from Ukraine as scrap for $20 million in 1998 was planned as a training platform for the Chinese Navy, India now believes that the warship will be ready for basic training operations as early as 2012... More >> |