Reacting to BJP MP Subramaniam Swamy's remark that India should go to war with China, the
CCP-owned Global Times (August 30) in a sharp article said "the 81-year-old dotard's words are
utter nonsense and crazy. The PLA is stationed on China's own territory. It's the Indian side that
has long surreptitiously engaged in salami-slicing tactics to gradually occupy China's territory.
Politicians like Swamy have deliberately confused right from wrong". Pointing out that China's
comprehensive national strength is way ahead of India's and that Indian politicians and officials
are trying to divert the people’s attention from their mismanagement of the Covid pandemic, it
said "regrettably, after the Galwan Valley clash in June 2020, ultra-nationalism has been surging
in India. It has even become "political correctness" for politicians to make irresponsible anti-China
remarks". It quoted Lan Jianxue, head of the Department for Asia-Pacific Studies at China Institute
of International Studies, as telling Global Times: "The BJP should have the wisdom and rationality
to restrain the politicians and officials from making anti-China belligerent speeches. Otherwise,
India will leave the region and world a belligerent ultra-nationalist image, which is detrimental to
India's development and rise in the long run." He added "India should understand that China
exerted great restraint regarding the Galwan Valley clash; otherwise, India's casualties would have
been severer." Lan Jianxue said India should learn a lesson from its Galwan fiasco, knowing what
kind of policy is in its best interest.
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