'India Won't Play Second Fiddle to U.S.'--Times of India

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5//The Times of India, India Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:53:06 PM

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1154854.cms



‘INDIA WON’T PLAY SECOND FIDDLE TO US’

Chidanand Rajghatta, Times News Network



WASHINGTON: India has rejected the idea of a unipolar world, clearly ruling out playing sub-altern to the United States if it seeks to remain dominant in the 21st century in the face of a rising Asia.

The Indian stand was publicly articulated by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday just three weeks ahead of a visit to Washington by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in what is being talked of a landmark journey, particularly after Washington said in March that its goal is to help India become a major world power in this century.

"A unipolar world is clearly not a sustainable proposition in the long run. India's vision of a multipolar world is one of partnership among the nations," Mukherjee told an audience of Washington's top strategic analysts at the Carnegie Endowment.

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In a March 25 policy leap, a senior administration official who spoke of US intention of helping India become a world power had said "We understand fully the implications, including military implications, of that statement."

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Mukherjee's address made it clear that far from kissing up to Washington ahead of the PM's visit or subscribing to those pushing for an Indo-U.S strategic alliance against China, New Delhi's foreign policy remained fiercely independent, and, as one accompanying official termed it, "very India-centric."



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BRAZIL-RUSSIA-INDIA-CHINA :nuke:

peace

...all but Brazil.

if they are ever able to tap it.

India wanted our technology jobs, and she has largely succeeded. It seems to me that they were using the US, although I agree with their vision of a "multipolar world". I think the PNAC underestimated India.

and see there's no difference with the USA.

:hi:

:-)

...so did Nazi Germany.

expose these hypocrites who push globalization when they are buying up people's water and vital assets but go ballistic when someone else wants to buy in their land.
Remember Gandhi and Nehru and remain non-aligned.

of the total pop than in the US (remember US middle class is splitting between have and have nots) India will have more middle class people in the end.

While America was king nobody could match the power of US middle class in the Western world. Now India and China and Russia and Brazil can - in the years to come.

they'll always be a 3rd world country.

"Not as long as they keep their caste system they'll always be a 3rd world country."

And more importantly, as long as China or India maintain a mono-racial identity, they will have no power to expand, just to defend. Clinton was right when he said our strength was in our diversity. A person of chinese ethnicity can easily become an american and become accepted, but it is substantially more difficult for a white or black american to be excepted in China as Chinese, same with india. As rising powers this holds them back immensely.

I've never been to India, but it has been my experience as a tall blond/blue guy in China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia (not singapore, though) Morocco and Egypt that I was instantly considered a foreigner based on my appearance. It wasn't a negative treatment at all (except in parts of egypt) but it was very much real, and I think you have to look at it when considering these countries...they've got opening up to do like everybody else in the world.

and only practiced by the uneducated.

that's like saying irradicate racism in the US.

Republican rednecks. They are easy to spot by their attire, language
skills, and teeth.

and money and technology but when we are powerful we will economically anihilate you!!!

India is feeling the pressure of China going in the war stage!!!