Find allies who can help against Beijing: BJP to Govt

Joshi argued that United States and China had been quietly developing a relationship all these years due to their economic goals and the US’s need to control Russia during the cold war era.

“But we ignored this and as a result we could not make any long-term China policy,” he said adding,”China and the United States will eventually divide the world among themselves”.

“Is the Government thinking about countries which will help us or will the policy continue to be America-centric,” he asked.

Claiming that the Chinese wanted to teach India a lesson in 1962,Joshi said,”China could never digest that the two countries were being equated. India should not be caught napping if something like this happens again,” he added.

The former Union Minister observed that over the last two-three years China had again become aggressive as evident in its opposition in the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the ADB and World Bank.

“China has also helped Pakistan get nuclear weapons. It is in this perspective that we need to see whether we need a change in our China policy or not,” he said.