Indian Press on China-Pakistan Ties and US Vs Trumpistan: New Age Islam's Selection, 30 September 2020
By New Age Islam Edit
Bureau
30
September 2020
• As China-Pakistan Ties Become Wider, India
Must Prepare For Implications
By Shalini Chawla
• US Vs Trumpistan: The Current Occupant Of The
White House Says He Won’t Vacate Even If He Gets An Eviction
By Jug Suraiya
• Let’s Live A Happier Life In Gratitude
By Pratiksha Apurv
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As China-Pakistan Ties Become Wider, India Must
Prepare For Implications
By Shalini Chawla
September
30, 2020
China's
President Xi Jinping meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan in Beijing
(Reuters/File)
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With the
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting in sight, Pakistan is gearing up to
gather support from China to avoid the blacklisting. Reports suggest that
Islamabad is likely to persuade the US to support it as it feels it can
leverage its much-lauded role as a successful negotiator in the US-Taliban
agreement signed on February 29. While Pakistan will have support from Turkey
and Malaysia, Beijing is expected to push hard in Pakistan’s favour at the
meeting. Pakistan has been on the FATF grey list since June 2018 and even
though Islamabad is getting its progress report ready, there is little evidence
to suggest that its faith in the use of terrorism as a state policy against
India will change.
Pakistan’s
growing alliance with China has been a major factor that has alleviated
international pressure on it, altering its strategic calculus. Beijing’s
all-out support to Pakistan provided room to shrink Islamabad’s reliance on the
West (especially the US). Importantly, Pakistan’s military build-up has
continued with Chinese defence imports despite its economic slowdown and mounting
debt.
China’s
assistance to Pakistan over the last six decades has expanded from a purely
military relationship to economic and diplomatic levels. Beijing’s weapon
supply not only added to Pakistan’s defence capability but also strengthened
its will to carry out a proxy war through terrorism in India, without the fear
of being defeated in retaliatory Indian aggression.
C Raja
Mohan writes: There is no happy end-state in India’s relations with its
neighbours
China’s
lavish military assistance to Pakistan has been on four critical fronts: Export
of Chinese conventional military equipment; support in Pakistan’s nuclear
build-up; assistance to Pakistan’s indigenous defence industry and intelligence
sharing. The supply of Chinese conventional weapons started in the 1960s and
1970s with F-7s and MiG-19 fighters. In the 1980s, the Pakistan Army inventory
had significant Chinese equipment including the T-59 MBTs, T-60 and T-63 Light
Tanks, and Type 531 APCs. By the early 1980s, China had provided Pakistan about
65 per cent of its aircraft and more than 70 per cent of its tanks.
Pakistan
started its naval acquisitions from China in the 1980s with a long-term
objective of striking a deal for technology transfer for indigenous production
in the future. In the last two decades, the focus of Pakistan’s defence
procurement has been on the build-up of its air force and the maritime strike
capabilities of its navy. In these, technology transfer from China has been a
key feature. The Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (AMF), under the Pakistan
Aeronautical Complex (PAC) at Kamra, started production of the Karakoram-8 jet
trainer in collaboration with the China National Aero-Technology Import and
Export Corporation (CATIC). JF-17 is co-developed by Pakistan and China and
reports suggest the PAC has been producing 58 per cent of the JF-17’s airframe,
and China’s Chengdu Aircraft Industry Corporation 42 per cent of it. In 2006,
the Pakistan Navy ordered four F-22P-type frigates from China and it was agreed
that the fourth F-22P will be manufactured in Pakistan at a Karachi shipyard.
PNS ASLAT is the first indigenously built frigate of the navy and the
production was done in collaboration with the China Shipbuilding and Trading
Company.
On the
nuclear front, Pakistan received help with the reactor, weapon design as well
as nuclear material (in the 1970s and 1980s). China continued missile
technology assistance to Pakistan and the technology of the Chinese M-11 was
used by Pakistan to develop missiles, including Hatf-3/Hatf-4 (based on M-11)
and Hatf-6 (based on Chinese M-18).
Ram Madhav
writes: As Chinese ambition expands, Delhi must turn towards PM Modi’s
principle of ‘together we grow’
The
intelligence-sharing cooperation between the two countries has deepened and
reports suggest posting of Pakistan’s ISI officers (from this March) to China’s
Central Military Commission’s Joint Staff Department. The alliance expanded
into an economic partnership with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which
Pakistan sees as a game-changer. Beijing’s diplomatic support to Pakistan has
grown significantly after the revocation of Article 370 and China has
repeatedly raised the Kashmir issue at the UN Security Council.
It looks
like China wants its alliance with Pakistan to serve as an exemplar to smaller
nations in South Asia and the Middle East to fulfil its boundless strategic and
economic ambition. The Sino-Pak nexus is expected to grow further in the coming
years and India needs to be strategically prepared to deal with the
implications of the alliance.
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Shalini Chawla is distinguished fellow, Centre
for Air Power Studies
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/china-pakistan-india-fatf-6636049/
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US Vs Trumpistan: The Current Occupant of The
White House Says He Won’t Vacate Even If He Gets An Eviction
By Jug Suraiya
September
30, 2020
Following
reports that the US president (POTUS) won’t quit the presidency and the White
House even if he loses the election, Second Opinion did a phone interview with
him.
Second
Opinion: Mr POTUS, some Indian netas hang on to their official residences long
after they’re no longer in office, but your saying that you won’t give up the
White House even if you lose the election is a first for American politics. How
do you justify it?
POTUS: I
justify it by saying that those darned Damnocrats as I call ’em are turning
this so-called election into a scam, a hoax, by bringing in this male-in
ballet. Why can’t women also ballet? Heck, I like women. In fact, some say I’ve
been known to like ’em a little too much. Heh, heh!
SO: Yes. So
it’s said. But it’s not male-in, as in the male gender, it’s mail-in, as
through the postal system. And it’s not ballet but ballot.
POTUS:
Yeah? Whatever. Anyway, even if I lose by the popular vote as I did the last
time, all those electoral colleges like Yale and Harvard will help me win as
they did before.
SO: I think
those electoral colleges are different from colleges like Yale and Harvard. But
do you feel that the law which says that a US president can’t remain in office
for more than two terms should be scrapped so that you can remain POTUS for a
third term, and more?
POTUS:
Sure. Why the heck shouldn’t I? What’s the point of reinventing’ the wheel,
over and over? If folks way back, when the first wheel was invented, had said:
Hey, let’s reinvent it every four years, maybe try and give it a square shape
next time, or a triangle, we’d still be stuck in the Stone Age, and livin’ in
caves or something. So why keep reinventing the presidency? Just stick to the
POTUS we’ve got – me. And after me there’s always Ivanka.
SO: This
sounds like Trumpistan. What happens to democracy?
POTUS:
Along with the Damnocrats, it gets the boot. God bless America!
SO: We
might need to change that to God save America….
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/jugglebandhi/us-vs-trumpistan-the-current-occupant-of-the-white-house-says-he-wont-vacate-even-if-he-gets-an-eviction-f0-9f-98-8a/
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Let’s Live a Happier Life In Gratitude
By Pratiksha Apurv
September
30, 2020
Our
well-being in testing times is linked to both physical and mental health.
Greater happiness is now needed more than ever before and that is precisely the
reason why we should start our day by thanking existence for this priceless
gift called life.
When we
look at the trees, mountains, rivers, the whole of nature outside of our home,
one thing in common is that all seem to be full of life, yet as though in deep,
silent prayer. We feel speechless, with a deep sense of gratitude. Prayer
exists in the inner realm, at the very core of our centre. Researchers are now
discovering that the sense of gratefulness not only has a profound impact on
our overall health; it also helps in reducing depression, anxiety and in
treating sleep disorders.
Professor
Alex Wood and his team with Jeffrey Froh and Adam Geraghty in 2010 published a
paper titled ‘Gratitude and Well-Being: A Review and Theoretical Integration’.
They concluded that gratitude is related to a variety of clinically relevant
phenomena, including psychopathology depression, adaptive personality
characteristics, positive social relationships, and physical health,
particularly stress and sleep. The paper also quoted a study conducted on a
community of 247 people who were showing signs of excessive worrying and
anxiety disorder. Through controlled gratitude intervention, they found that a
sense of gratitude was effective in reducing both body dissatisfaction and
excessive worry. The researchers also quoted a previous study conducted in 2003
by Emmons and McCullough, where participants were asked to maintain a daily
list of events for which they were grateful, including even just waking up in
the morning. The study clearly concluded that ‘gratitude is strongly related to
well-being.’
Krishna in
the Bhagwad Gita said to Arjuna, “Tam eva sharanam gachchha sarva-bhavena
bharata, Tat-prasadat param shantim sthanam prapsyasi shashvatam” – Hey Arjuna,
your whole being needs to surrender for the gift of peace, happiness and that
eternal abode. The surrender Krishna is talking about is deep gratitude towards
existence, towards life and all the other valuable things it has given us.
When we
thank the trees for the breeze in the morning, it becomes prayer and our being
turns into pure gratitude. When we see misery, pain and suffering today, we
should try helping someone who needs help. This action could bring joy to
someone. Just like existence, we have many things in abundance and a sense of
thankfulness can change our life. Osho observed that gratitude arises, whenever
we start feeling God’s presence all around, and that moment transforms our
whole energy into gratitude and our whole being becomes a thanksgiving.
We should
never think about existence’s gift to us in terms of quantity – big or small.
Sant Kabir said, “Tinka kabhu na nindiye” – We should not even show disrespect
to a speck of dust. This is a deep message that everything around has its own
value. We need to acknowledge that everything existence is offering us has the
potential to bring harmony and balance in life. Gratefulness is true communion
with existence and perhaps the only fragrance of the heart. We should be
grateful for breathing, for being helped, and for the abundance. Let this
feeling of deep gratitude become our intrinsic nature. And, slowly we will
realise that all our complaints simply disappear, leaving us in an ocean of
joy, celebration and total bliss.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/lets-live-a-happier-life-in-gratitude/
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