Red Offensive in Asia
SABAVALA, SHAROKH
Communist incursions in India and Laos are signs of a 'big freeze which China is deliberately engineering' in its relations with South Asian neutralists Red Offensive in Asia By Sharokh...
...It is not the Kremlin, but the former Imperial City of the Man-chus which now is firmly established as their Mecca...
...5. Early in August...
...At this Congress, reportedly, booklets were circulated in which author Mao Tse-tung called for an extension of China's frontiers to include all those countries whose people are of Mongolian origin...
...In Kerala, the Indian President, apart from temporarily taking over the state, has been asked to institute a full-scale inquiry into the workings of the previous Communist administration, partly to reveal its source of funds, which people in Kerala suspect were not of Indian origin...
...Later, when its Ministry in Kerala was under popular assault, members of the party's Central Executive and the Kerala Party secretary in particular—he takes pride in being called Kerala's Khrushchev—took to making frequent trips to this same embassy for advice and guidance...
...It is also worth noting that last July the Communist party of Nepal elected Ho Chi Minh and Communist China's Mao Tse-tung to its Politburo...
...Similarly, Indian Communists in those areas which lie adjacent to the Tibet border are keeping New Delhi's Home Ministry hopping with their propaganda and their not-so-secret efforts to establish direct contact with Chinese and Tibetan Communists on the other side...
...The federation is to include independent Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan—the latter two autonomous states bound by treaties to the Indian Union — the predominantly Buddhist Ladakh area and the Northeast Frontier Agency (NEFA), where the two military incidents occurred last week...
...Chinese Communist forces invaded Indian territory, battled with Indian troops and captured border posts more than 1,000 miles apart—in the Northeast Frontier Agency and in the Ladakh region of Kashmir...
...On this occasion, in addition to sending a stiff protest to Peking...
...By these and other activities, the Communist party of India, presumably under orders, has willingly isolated itself from the mainstream of Indian political life, very nearly destroyed its domestic alliances with other like-minded groups and now faces a new low ebb in its Indian fortunes with the greatest equanimity...
...Prime Minister Nehru told the Indian Parliament that the Sino-Indian Agreement of 1954 on Tibet had again been violted when the Chinese Communists declared Indian currency to be illegal in Tibet, froze all Indian goods and subjected Indian traders to "flagrant discriminatory practices...
...7. The instructions being given are partly revealed by the recent behavior of Nepali leader K. I. Singh, a former rebel who once sought asylum in Peking and who now has returned to Katmandu, the Nepali capital, to mount a fresh campaign against India's "imperialist intentions...
...In a recent cartoon in a prominent Indian newspaper, a little boy is shown changing a popular slogan on a wall from "Hindi Chini bhai bhai"—bhai means brother—to "Hindi Chini bye bye...
...Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai dropped this pretext by telling a Peoples' Congress that China's frontiers with her southern neighbors were "undetermined" and that the Government was disinclined to recognize the internationally accepted McMahon Line which demarcates relevant regions in this part of the world...
...Here are some signs of the onset of winter in Sino-neutralist relations: 1. Communist guerilla forces, based in North Vietnam and supplied in part by China, have brought to a head their campaign to wrest control of the two northern provinces of the independent kingdom of Laos...
...There is a growing demand that the Communist party of India be made to forfeit its right to offer itself for elections since it no longer can be called a truly Indian party...
...2. Just a week ago...
...The information was first made public by H. V. Kamath...
...3. New Delhi has in its possession—the Indian Government has officially denied this—details of a Chinese blueprint for a Himalayan federation of all Mongolian peoples...
...Last April, however...
...Burma, Indonesia and Nepal have been turning to Peking and not Moscow for their instructions...
...During the Tibetan revolt, it acted both in Parliament and outside as the spokesman of the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi and carried to the whole country Chou En-lai's charge that the Tibetan upsurge was Indian-inspired...
...NEFA, incidentally, borders on Assam, where the Dalai Lama entered this country after fleeing Lhasa...
...a leader of the Praja Socialist party and a former member of Parliament who recently made an extensive tour of the Himalayan regions with the knowledge and permission of the Indian Government...
...Just before the Kerala agitation started on June 12, for instance, it became known that the Communist party made large withdrawals from two prominent foreign banks in Bombay...
...4. So far in response to Indian and Burmese protests against Peking's cartographic invasions southward—official Chinese maps show many thousands of square miles of Indian and Burmese territory as belonging to the Chinese People's Republic—Peking has stated that these are old Kuomintang maps and that Communist China has had no time to prepare new ones...
...On Tibet, diplomatic exchanges have been reduced to a minimum...
...The conclusion being drawn from its cheerful efforts to commit national suicide is that it is so supremely confident of China's future in this region that the present does not matter very much...
...mount to aggression against India itself...
...Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru repeated his earlier warning that any Chinese attack on two other automomous border areas...
...In this connection, political observers here have not lost sight of the fact that Ho Chi Mink North Vietnam's Communist ruler, was in Moscow just a few weeks ago and conferred with Khrushchev and other Kremlin leaders shortly before the military action in Laos was stepped up...
...Sikkim and Bhutan, would be tantaSHAROKH SABAVALA reports on India for the Christian Science Monitor...
...Since 1950...
...6. After years of pretending to be a national organization, rooted in the soil, the Communist party of India has thrown off all camouflage and emerged as an agent of a foreign power...
...Meanwhile, in Nehru's own words, Peking faces New Delhi with a wall of silence...
...although this fact has not generally been known, the Communist parties of India...
...There is not even the usual "thank you" for India's again raising the question of China's inclusion in the United Nations, perhaps because Peking no longer trusts India's motives...
...In the rest of the country there are no illusions left...
...Communist incursions in India and Laos are signs of a 'big freeze which China is deliberately engineering' in its relations with South Asian neutralists Red Offensive in Asia By Sharokh Sabavala BOMBAY AGAINST THE big thaw which may occur in East-West relations after Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President Eisenhower exchange visits must be set the equally big freeze which Mainland China deliberately seems to be engineering in South Asia...
...This conclusion is bothering an increasing number of Indians, including Nehru, who, however, remains reluctant to admit that his grand Asian alliance lies shattered...
Vol. 42 • September 1959 • No. 32
