Quoting anonymous,China daily takes a swipe: India may have forgotten lesson of 1962

A day after the Dalai Lama reached Tawang,the Chinese Communist Partys mouthpiece,Peoples Daily,quoting an anonymous scholar...

A day after the Dalai Lama reached Tawang,the Chinese Communist Partys mouthpiece,Peoples Daily,quoting an anonymous scholar,said that India may have forgotten the lesson of 1962 and is on the wrong track again.

In a provocative article titled India covets Dalai Lamas visit, the state-run paper said that the presence of the spiritual leader in the disputed region is a double insult for China. India may have forgotten the lesson of 1962,when its repeated provocation resulted in military clashes. India is on this wrong track again, the article,which was first carried in the Chinese Global Times said,quoting an anonymous scholar.

The article claims that India is using the Dalai Lama to solve the border dispute in Tawang and had asked him to visit the region. The Dalai Lama went to southern Tibet at this critical moment probably because of pressure from India. By doing so,he can please the country that has hosted him for years, the newspaper quotes Hu Shisheng,a researcher of Southern Asian studies at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations,as saying.

While the Chinese government has not made any official comment on the article,India,for its part,said that the Dalai Lama visited Tawang on his own and there was no suggestion from the government to do so.

The suggestion has not come from us,because we do not deal with the spiritual travels of a spiritual leader. He has to visit his flock as he deems fit. As far as I am aware,the initiative would have come from him and the government would have been informed about it, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said.

The Chinese article said: When the conflict gets sharper and sharper,the Chinese government will have to face it and solve it in a way India has designed.

Meanwhile,Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee struck a note of caution.

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I do not visualize any conflict on border dispute between India and China. We have an institutional arrangement,though there are divergences of views, he told reporters in London.