As a major non-NATO ally, India would be eligible to buy depleted uranium ammunition, to have U.S.-owned military stockpiles on its territory outside U.S. bases and to receive U.S. military training on easier financial terms.
India like Pakistan borders on China.
India has shown its ambitions to be treated as a global power by rejecting a special ally status from the United States awarded to Pakistan, analysts said Wednesday. http://sify.com/news_info/fullstory.php?id=13438616
When the United States gave Pakistan non-NATO ally status, China in a countermove provided a $12 million interest-free loan to Pakistan.
Now that the United States has declared that it may grant "major non-NATO ally" status to India, the Chinese Defense Minister in another ‘in your face’ countermove is to visit India for the purpose of exploring the possibilities of defense cooperation between the two countries.
This will be the first visit by a Chinese Defense Minister to this country after the 1962 India-China conflict, which led to years of confrontation between the two neighbors. The Sino-Indian normalization process is expected to get a major boost from the six-day visit. http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=47586
I am not sure who thought of what first in the India affair but China must be giving Bush a major headache. No doubt at present the United States is the leader in the military arena but our weakened economic state can soon alter our military dominance and at the same time make it much more difficult for us to bribe other countries especially so when India, China and Russia are considered the rising stars. –Am
Chinese Defence Minister to visit India
New Delhi, Mar 24 (UNI) the Sino-Indian normalisation process is expected to get a major boost when Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangechuan arrives here on Friday on a six-day visit to India for exploring the possibilities of defence cooperation between the two countries.
This will be the first visit by a Chinese Defence Minister to this country after the 1962 India-China conflict, which led to years of confrontation between the two neighbours.
Defence sources said Gen Cao would hold delegation-level talks with Defence Minister George Fernandes on March 29. He is also expected to meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha. The three Service Chiefs will also call on him the same day.
The sources said the two countries might issue a joint statement at the end of the visit.
Gen Cao will arrive here from Islamabad on the night of March 26 and leave for Bangalore the next day to see the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). He will visit Mumbai on March 28 and hold talks with top Naval officials. All his engagements in New Delhi are on March 29. The next day, Gen Cao will visit Agra to see the Taj before leaving for Bangkok on March 31.
India and China have been making sincere efforts to resolve their long-standing boundary dispute that has bedevilled their ties.
Following Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Beijing in June last year, the two countries had appointed their special representatives to look at the boundary dispute from the political perspective to expedite its solution. Mr Brajash Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, and Chinese vice-Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo were appointed as the special representatives by the two governments. They have already met twice.
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