Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
Changes are occurring concerning the political ties between China and the rest of the world,and a substantial amount of wealth may be at stake depending on whether involvement increases or decreases.Businesses will need to adapt to the upcoming uncertainties.
Since the 1962 conflict,China has been widely recognized as a key source of concern for India’s national security architecture.
However,the author believes that China posed a threat to India well before 1962,stretching the date back to 1949 when China became a full-fledged Communist nation.
Furthermore, there are no indications that these worries will diminish in the foreseeable future. China not only threatens India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity but is also committed to thwarting India’s emergence as a global force.
China’s questionable behavior in the discourse of international relations,particularly in terms of India,must be viewed in the context of the “Chinese Dream,”which is the fundamental rationale for China’s behavior.It is valid.
Not only does China constitute a danger to India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,but it is also committed to thwarting India’s growth as a significant world force.
The Chinese Dream entails a political, futuristic reality wherein China will replace the United States as the world’s only superpower by 2049, restoring the old splendor of China’s Middle Kingdom idea.
In order to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the Chinese revolution,China’s highest-ranking officials have chosen 2049 as the watershed year.
Mr.Robert Blackwill,the former U.S.Ambassador to India,emphasized the political ideology of the Chinese government in his book titled War by Other Means.
He described how China has been engaging in geopolitical rivalry through geo-economic means, frequently to undermine American power and influence.
We are no strangers to China’s long-term ambition of augmenting a grand military program to optimize its territorial and economic occupation.
China is effectively disguising its actions by advertising the same with a strategically curated phrase, “peaceful growth of China to the world.”
China believes that,other than the United States, India is the only Asian nation that can effect a hindrance from attaining its ambition.
Therefore,China constantly challenges India to rise by deploying different strategical tactics that are not entirely ethical in nature.
China’s economic and political influence has increased so rapidly that many nations, including those with relatively robust state and civil society institutions,have struggled to comprehend the repercussions.
Recent developments in China are receiving a rising amount of attention in the United States, Japan,and Western Europe,which are all mature industrial democracies.
But vulnerable countries those where the gap between the extent and intensity of Chinese action and the local capacity to manage and mitigate political and economic risks is greatest—face unique problems.
In these nations,local experts and elites have a limited understanding of China’s activism and influence efforts’strategies and techniques.
Meanwhile,both inside and beyond these nations, policies frequently impose Western solutions that are neither relevant nor economically viable to the local conditions.
This is particularly significant in two crucial regions:Southeast,Central,and Eastern Europe and South Asia.
China’s economic and political prominence has increased very rapidly in these two areas,but many nations lack a broad pool of local specialists who can combine analysis of the home consequences of Chinese involvement with policy suggestions that fit domestic political and economic realities.
Made in China 2025 Program:A Nationalist Project or a Political Threat?.
The Chinese government has announced “Made in China 2025,”a state-led industrial program designed to make China the world leader in high-tech manufacturing by the year 2025.
The program intends to leverage government subsidies,mobilize state-owned firms,and seek the acquisition of intellectual property.
America perceives it as an attempt to catch up to and ultimately surpass the technological superiority of the West in sophisticated sectors.
For the United States and other major industrialized democracies,however,these tactics not only violate Beijing’s stated adherence to international economic norms but also pose a security risk.
Washington contends that the policy is based on disparate practices of international investment, forced technology transfer, theft of intellectual property,and cyber war fare,practices which have prompted President Donald J Trump to enforce tariffs on Chinese goods and restrict a number of Chinese-backed takeovers of technology firms.
In the meanwhile,a number of other countries have increased their oversight of foreign investment,raising the debate over how to respond effectively to China’s activities.
China 2025- A New Picture!.
Made in China 2025 is the government’s ten-year plan to modernize China’s manufacturing base by quickly growing 10 high-tech industries.It was released in 2015.
Electric automobiles and other new energy vehicles,information technology (IT) and telecommunications of the future generation,and sophisticated robotics and artificial intelligence are chief among them.
Other significant industries include agricultural technology, aerospace engineering, innovative synthetic materials,advanced electrical equipment,burgeoning biomedicine,advanced rail infrastructure,and high-tech maritime engineering.
Big data,cloud services,and other new technologies are being incorporated into global manufacturing supply chains,and these sectors are crucial to the so-called fourth industrial revolution.
Here, the Chinese government looked to Germany’s Industry 4.0 expansion plan for ideas.
Beijing’s ultimate goal is to increase the competitiveness of Chinese high-tech businesses abroad and reduce China’s dependency on technology imported from elsewhere.
Semiconducting devices are an area of study because of their widespread use in modern electrical products.
While the country accounts for over 60% of worldwide demand,it only produces 13% of the world’s supply of semiconductors. By 2025, China aspires to achieve 70 percent self-sufficiency in high-tech sectors,and by 2049, the centenary of the People’s Republic of China, China hopes to dominate global markets.These goals are detailed in the government’s blueprint, China 2025.
Afraid of foreign repercussions,Chinese leaders have increasingly characterized the plan as aspirational and unofficial.
As Western officials have expressed worry, they have begun to lessen their references to it. Premier Li Keqiang did not mention China 2025 during the opening session of the 2019 National People’s Congress; it was the first time he omitted the program from his yearly report to congress since its inception.
Summary
The publication of “China’s Impact on Strategic Regions”occurs at a time when nations in several regions of the world are experiencing China’s greater participation in their politics,economy, and society,as well as the repercussions of such engagement.
China’s interests and links with other nations, particularly areas of Europe and South Asia,have become more diverse and numerous than ever in the past decade.
With these additional avenues of influence, the organization has come to anticipate special respect for its interests and is ready to use pressure to achieve this.
Using data collected through focus groups, in-depth interviews,archival research,and media analysis in four South Asian states (Bangladesh, Nepal, the Maldives,and Sri Lanka),this study examines the transnational and comparative implications of China’s growing influence.
These four countries all have their own special vulnerabilities.Institutions of states can be weak under some circumstances.
It has been shown that in some nations, civil society does not serve as an effective check on the government.
This vulnerability extends to elites being captured by foreign parties such as China and its agents.
The study’s overarching goal is to shed light on China’s growing role by explaining it in terms of the impact it has on the precariousness of the relevant governments.
The purpose of this study is to determine how China exploits specific vulnerabilities in these four states to further its own interests,how these vulnerabilities can be remedied,and how states can share and learn from one another’s experiences to strengthen their individual and collective hand.
In the end,they want to provide policy suggestions that will assist the nations in avoiding unproductive Chinese activities and influences while fostering engagement that is in their best interests.
The proposals are also intended by the United States and its strategic partners in an effort to enhance the action independence,bargaining power,and growth of these states.
