【彭博社12.6】中国军官前往印度进行军事谈判

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Chinese General Heads to India for Military Talks                                                                                                        By                    Bibhudatta Pradhan                 -                                Dec 6, 2011 2:30 AM GMT+0800
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-05/chinese-general-heads-to-india-for-talks-after-border-setback.html
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Ma Xiaotian (C), the deputy chief of the People’s Liberation Army General Staff. Photographer: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

India and China, which have fought awar over their disputed border and compete for resources to feedAsia’s two fastest growing economies, will hold their highestlevel military talks in almost two years.
General Ma Xiaotian, the deputy chief of the People’sLiberation Army General Staff, will lead a delegation to NewDelhi for meetings Dec. 9 with Indian Defense SecretaryShashikant Sharma and ministry officials. The previous round ofdefense dialogue was held in Beijing in January 2010.
The nuclear-armed neighbors, home to more than a third ofthe world’s people, claim territory held by the other andclashed during a brief border conflict in 1962. India hasreplaced China as the world’s top weapons importer, according toa study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,as it aims to modernize its armed forces and defend againstsecurity threats from Pakistan and China.
Ma’s visit indicates that China and India have for now“resolved a degree of their tit-for-tat diplomacy,” said LoraSaalman, a Beijing-based analyst at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Centerfor Global Policy. “It does not signal that the overalltensions underpinning such disputes have been resolved.”
Military relations between the world’s two most populousnations were suspended in August 2010 after China issued a visato an Indian army officer in charge of forces in Kashmir withoutstamping his passport, an act seen as questioning India’s ruleover the disputed Himalayan territory. China has a closealliance with Pakistan, which has waged two wars with India overKashmir.
Dalai Lama Protest
Border talks scheduled for Nov. 28-29 were scrapped afterChina objected to a Buddhist meeting in New Delhi at which theDalai Lama was set to speak, the Press Trust of India reported.The government in Beijing refused to go ahead with the dialogueeven after India said President Pratibha Patil and PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh would not attend the Dalai Lama session,the Times of India newspaper reported Nov. 27.
The Dalai Lama has lived in India since fleeing in 1959after China’s military takeover of Tibet. China accuses him andthe government-in-exile that is also based in the north Indiantown of Dharamshala, of secretly seeking independence for hishomeland. The Dalai Lama says he wants autonomy for Tibet, notseparation.
India’s foreign ministry said in a statement Nov. 25 it waslooking forward to rescheduling the boundary talks “in the nearfuture and the two sides remain in touch to find convenientdates.”
Arms Transfers India and China, which went to war five decades ago overpart of their 3,500-kilometer (2,175-mile) boundary, have triedto prevent their disagreements from affecting economic ties.Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao traveled to India with 300 businessexecutives in December last year. During that trip the countriesvowed to raise trade by two-thirds to $100 billion in five yearsand reduce India’s trade deficit by promoting its exports toChina.
The defense delegations will this week discuss “regionaland global security issues,” review attempts to address theborder issue and finalize military exchanges for next year,according to a statement from India’s defense ministry. ForeignMinistry spokesman Hong Lei confirmed Chinese participation at aregular briefing in Beijing yesterday.
India received 9 percent of international arms transfers byvolume during 2006-10, Sipri said in a March report. India hastripled its military budget in the past decade to $32 billionthis year compared with a near-quadrupling of spending by itsneighbor and rival China in the same period. China said itplanned to spend $91.5 billion on defense this year.
Territorial Disputes India accuses China of occupying 38,000 square kilometers(14,670 square miles) of territory in Jammu and Kashmir to thewest, while the government in Beijing lays claim to 90,000square kilometers of land in Arunachal Pradesh, a state inIndia’s east. The two sides have been unable to resolve theirdisputes after more than a dozen rounds of discussions since2005.
India and China are competing around the world to secureoil, gas and metals. India and Vietnam signed an agreement Oct.12 to expand joint oil and gas exploration in the South ChinaSea, waters where Chinese claims over resources have led toclashes in recent months. India’s Foreign Ministry Sept. 1denied a report that said a Chinese warship confronted an Indiannavy vessel after it left Vietnamese waters in late July.
“Though there are irritants like the border, a tradeimbalance and now the South China Sea, both countries want topush forward dialogue,” said R.N. Das, an analyst at the NewDelhi-based Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses.
Assertive India Army ties resumed when Indian officers traveled to Beijingin June. A People’s Liberation Army delegation came to IndiaNov. 4-9, India’s defense ministry said in its statement. Afurther round of military exchanges will take place before theend of this month, it said.
“India’s relations with Vietnam and Myanmar and itsrefusal to intervene in matters concerning the Dalai Lama thatare purely of a religious nature” signal it is becoming moreassertive, Bahukutumbi Raman, an analyst at the Chennai Centrefor China Studies, said in comments posted on his blog.
Both India and China are investing in ports, railways andoil and gas pipelines in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, thatgive them access to natural resources and trade routes in theIndian Ocean region.
“India has in recent months started slowly asserting itsown interests and concerns without surrendering totally to thoseof China,” Raman said.

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