By
IOL South Asia Correspondent
NEW
DELHI, Aug 11 (IslamOnline) - China wants an Indo-Pak war, possibly a
nuclear conflict, to weaken India, revealed a Japanese expert on
international relations.
India
and China, went to war in 1965, and according to India, China holds
large chunks of Indian territory in the Indian Northeast. There were
persistent reports in the Indian media recently that China continued
encroaching on Indian territory in that region.
"Even
at the cost of Pakistan, China wants that there should be an
India-Pakistan war, even a nuclear conflict. This is to weaken
India," Indian news agency PTI reported Japanese expert Hideaki
Kase as saying Sunday, August 11, 2002. Kase served as special advisor
to former Japanese Premiers Takeo Fukuda and Yasuhiro Nakasone.
A
China observer for many years, Kase, currently visiting India as
chairman of Japan-India Goodwill Association (JIGA), said during an
interaction with some journalists Sunday that India should put in
place an anti-ballistic missile shield as Beijing is developing a
large-scale military build-up.
"The
Chinese Communist Party has replaced ideological Communism by jingoist
patriotism while it knows that unless China seizes hegemony in the
neighboring region, it cannot assure rule over several billion of
people in years to come," said Kase, professor of international
relations at Takushoku University.
Kase
published 83 books, including one jointly with Taiwanese President Lee
Teng Hui in September 1996. He said the longer one-party rule
continues in China, the greater is the danger to the surrounding
region.
Pakistan
President Musharraf visited China early this month and the India Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is expected to visit Beijing later this
year. Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes described China as
India's enemy number one and justified the Indian nuclear program in
this context. Pakistan has been a close ally of China ever since
Indo-Chinese relations soured in early 1960s.
