India, China to hold first-ever strategic dialogue next week

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http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/world/20050121-0.html

India and China will hold the first-ever 'strategic dialogue' on January 24 in New Delhi to discuss major global and regional issues that will help enhance bilateral cooperation and coordination, official sources said today.

"This will be the first meeting of the strategic dialogue between India and China and the main focus will be the big global issues," one official said.

India would be represented by Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran while the Chinese side would be headed by Vice Foreign Minister for Asian Affairs Wu Dawei. snip

For example, the two sides are expected to exchange views on the stalled North Korean nuclear issue, a topic personally handled by Wu as the host of the six-party talks on a sensitive issue that has severe implications for the security and stability of Asia.

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1. Seems to be a lot of bi-/multi-lateral agreements being done these

days. And, oddly enough, we're not part of them. The Bush neo-cons won't be happy until they have the entire world lined up against us. Bad news for freedom loving Democrats here.....this will be used to promote more totalitarian, Nazi-like faux patriotism. This administration will flame xenophobic attitudes in this country, all the better to supress democracy at home.

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3. The world abandons the United States and moves on

This quote says it all:

The six-party talks between the United States, North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia on Pyongyang's nuclear programmes has hit a major roadblock.

A fourth round of scheduled talks in Beijing last September did not materialise amid serious differences between Pyongyang and Washington.

This is the signs of the rest of the world giving up on the United States. We really should learn respect and diplomacy with others.

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2. This has GOT to make them sweat.

You can't deny that the two megalithic giants don't make the US shake with nervousness. The two-bit policymakers in Washington are just amateurs, when it comes to India and China.

There are several threads which acknowledge these two countries are the 2 powers of the future. They're just patiently waiting, as the US exhausts itself financially in Iraq. They're just biding their time.....until we're broke.

Then they might take action. Stupid fools running this country don't realize they're up against ancient cultures which have outlived many previous upstart regimes like the US.

Ironically, the US by its actions causes other countries to form alliances, just from our belligerent and outrageous behaviour. We elicit disgust and loathing from around the world. We've become the pariah.

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4. American military support for nuclear Pakistan

...was the most earth shaking diplomatic move after 911. The plot to accomplish this had been in motion covertly for some years.

The open repudiation the arms embargo on a nuclear proliferator like Pakistan and then bolstering that regime with the presence of American troops and air forces in Pakistan disturbed the balance of power in Asia. What it amounted to was an endorsement of an illegal nuclear proliferating state, exporting terrorism to its neighbors. This military dictatorship was the main supporter of the taliban and saved thousands of them in the infamous airlift reported by Seymour Hersh. The US action and subsequent terrorist and agressive military moves by Pakistan almost lead to a nuclear war in central Asia.

As an aside, there is also evidence that the Musharef regime was involved in illegal arms trafficking and money laundering connected to a Deustchebank AB employee which tangentially related to the scheming that brought down the twin towers.

In any case, the US resumed military relationship with the nuclear armed Pakistani military dictatorship has created an unbalance in Asian security to which the Chinese and Indian governments will adjust for their own security reasons. I'm sure each country would like to gradually solidify their ties sidestepping the US-Pakistan security problem, while filling their currency reserves with US dollars.