DC Edit | Ignore China's pinpricks, make G-20 big success
Deccan ChronicleChina is at its old games again but its cartographic “expansionism” encompassing Arunachal Pradesh, Aksai Chin, Taiwan and the South China Sea region has a message that may be bigger than the one to India for rejecting its overtures of normalising ties before resolving the LAC situation. As China’s economy tanks, with its over-reliance on real estate representing about 30 per cent of its GDP being exposed to a precipitous fall in values currently, the country may be looking for avenues to assert itself by not only publicising its territorial wish list but also threatening Taiwan aerially daily. The timing of the “standard map” fracas, in proximity to the G-20 meeting of world powers that New Delhi is hosting just 10 days away, is also part of China’s playbook to deny India’s position of a bit of influence. It would be in the fitness of things if India were to ignore at this juncture China’s fulminations and its intransigence on the LAC led by its patently blinkered view that the rest of the ties can be normal without addressing the issue of the border standoff first.