【2011.05.03 印度时报】China shell shocked about being kept in dark

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BEIJING: China is shell shocked over the fact that it was kept in the dark about the US operations close to Islamabad. It has suddenly found that years of cultivating the political class and spending billions of dollars in Pakistan has proved futile.

The operations showed the US commands a lot more influence in the Pakistani military than what Beijing had estimated during its several parleys and joint military exercises with its neighbour.

Chinese officials and experts are privately asking why US raiders did not try to take Osama Bin Laden alive if they had known his whereabouts since last August. And whether there was an underhand deal involving the raiders, some elements in the Pakistani government and supporters of Bin Laden.

But the Chinese leadership is keeping up a brave front. It is backing Zardari's story that his government knew nothing of the operations.

"It would not have been possible for the US to carry out anti-terrorist operations without Pakistani government assistance. But in this particular case, I think the local government did not know about it," Rong Ying, vice president of the State-run China Institute of International Studies, told TNN.

It would be wrong to suggest the Zardari government knew about it, and kept China in the dark, Rong said. But one has to accept that the US showed total disregard for Pakistan's sovereignty by conducting the operations without keeping the local government informed, he said.

US agencies had installed sophisticated equipment close to the area of operations three years back, Hu Shisheng, deputy director in the State-run Institute of South and Southeast Asian Studies, pointed out. It is difficult to believe the Americans did not know about Bin Laden's residence until last August, he said.

"But I tend to believe the top leaders in the Pakistani government did not know about the operations. If some of them did know, it is a dangerous signal. It means the Pakistani government can be seized by dangerous groups," he said.

Rong said the killing of Bin Laden will have no affect on China-Pakistan relations which has a long history and several dimensions to it.

China has no problems with the US and Pakistan having close relationship in the battle against terrorism because it affects every country on the earth. But it wants Pakistan's sovereignty to remain intact, he said.
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