India promptly rejects China’s ‘standardised geographical names’ in Arunachal Pradesh

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1. China is once again provoking India by naming names. This is an age old tactic of the Chinese to give names to territories that doesn’t belong to them and then capture them by military force. This happened to Tibet, East Turkistan, South China, Southern Mongolia and Aksai Chin. They believe like the Nazi’s did that if they persist in a telling a lie over and over again, it will become the truth. This is what happened to Tibet. They peddled the lie that “Tibet is part of China” and the world accepted the lie! India’s claim to Arunachal Pradesh is based on the treaty between British India and independent Tibet. In 1913-14, British India, Tibet and China met in the Indian hill station of Simla which was the British summer capital. The agenda of the three countries was to settle the border between British India and Tibet and the border between Tibet and China. This meeting of the three nations in Simla came to be known as the Simla convention. Tibet wanted Britain to recognize the whole of Eastern Tibet as part and parcel of Tibet. Even though the Ganden Phodrang Government in Lhasa was in control of most of its territory in the central region (U-Tsang) region and all of Kham to the west of the Drichu River, beyond the river was ruled by Tibetan chieftains and the Chinese encroached in these areas where they started gathering taxes to make claim to these areas. The Tibetan Government in Lhasa wanted the British to recognize all of kham and Amdo area as sovereign Tibetan land. The British on their part wanted the Tawang area of Mon in southern Tibet for trading route to Tibet. A deal was struck between independent Tibet’s plenipotentiary Lonchen Shatra Paljor Dorje and Britain’s plenipotentiary Sir Henry MacMohan. Britain would recognize whole of historical Tibet as Tibetan territory in return for Tibet to relinquish its sovereignty over Tawang region of Mon. Tibet also demanded the British to sell weapons and ammunition to fight Chinese encroachment in the East of the country led by Chinese war lord Ma Bufang. The border between India and Tibet was demarcated in the South during this convention and came to be known MacMohan Line. There was no hiccups on this issue since the Chinese had no say in the affairs of Tibet. However, the problem cropped up with the TIBET’S BORDER WITH CHINA. China refused to ratify the convention because they refused to accept the demarcation of Tibet-China border because the Chinese continued to lay claim to Tibetan territories where they had only NOMINAL influence by laid claim all the same. The Tibetan Government was adamant to insist its claim to whole of Tibet and was squarely backed by the British. As it were, the Chinese were left out of the equation and denied any benefits accrued from the Simla convention which was finally signed by Tibet and Britain sealing the fate of Mon Tawang region (Arunachal Pradesh) as part of India in return for Britain to recognize whole of Tibet (Kham, Amdo and U-Tsang) as TIBETAN TERRITORY.
   The present stand-off between India and China presented itself because of India’s own inexcusable folly to endorse Chinese baseless claims over Tibet, completely contrary to the stand of the colonial British Government out of anti-colonial attitude, Chinese duplicity and utter ignorance of the strategic location of Tibet to India’s nations security. The new leaders of India were inexperienced and knew almost nothing about the geopolitical ramifications of selling Tibet down the river! They were too carried away by the Chinese communist rhetoric of friendship and socialist solidarity and anti- imperialist double talk. This is the single most unforgivable sin independent India made and now it has come to haunt it. Pandit Nehru knew after the Chinese invasion of 1962 that he had made a Himalayan blunder and said so in no uncertain terms. Tibetans are still grateful to Pandit Nehru and the people of India for giving asylum the HH The Dalai Lama and eighty thousand Tibetan refugees. Most grateful to Pandit Nehru to welcome HH in person at Mussoorie Birla House after the Dalai Lama’s arrival in India. It’s sad that even though India has made great strides in modernizing its economy and military and is a burgeoning world power, the present leaders have shown no appetite to meet the Dalai Lama in person like Pandit Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi did. India’s appeasement of communist China has paid no dividend whatsoever. If the new leaders of India have learnt anything, INDEPENDENT TIBET IS VITAL FOR INDIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY. Buddhist Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim along with Hindu Nepal played a vital role as buffer States between China and India for centuries.
   The present crises in the Himalayas bordering Tibet is THE DIRECT RESULT OF CHINESE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF TIBET SINCE 1949/50. UNTIL TIBET IS FREE, INDIA WILL HAVE TO LIVE UNDER THE DARK SHADOW OF CHINESE AGGRESSION and INTIMIDATION!!!

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