Chinese Incursions Inside Arunachal Pradesh

(Part III)
1. Similarly, to deal with China, to counter Pakistan's proxy war, the country must sustain a policy for 20-30 years. And for that, you have to keep readers and viewers focused on that issue for decades at a time. But the media is fixated only on what it can project as 'breaking news' in this shift – what was 'breaking news' in the last shift is 'old hat' by this one.
2. This weak-kneed government is a problem, of course: its nominal leaders have lifted helplessness to new heights. But the even graver problem now is that the one instrument, by which it could be shaken up, the media, has become a problem of its own.
3. Make no mistake: China watches all this. It watches the feeble, confused, contradictory ways in which our government, and even more our society, reacts each time it advances a claim. And it pursues its policy:
Claim;
Repeat the claim;
Go on repeating the claim
Grab;
Hold;
Let time pass.
And they will reconcile themselves to the new situation. Has the policy not succeeded in regard to Tibet? No Indian Prime Minister will dare mention the word Tibet or Taiwan' – lest doing so offends China. But China will go on claiming what it wants – for reasons that we must understand.
4. But why think of Tibet and Taiwan? Has the six-step policy not succeeded in regard to Aksai Chin? In spite of the unanimous resolution that the Parliament passed at the time under Panditji, is there an Indian leader who will today demand that China hand back Aksai Chin? And do you think that when they deliberate over what they are to do in regard to Arunachal, the Chinese do not remember the success they have achieved in Aksai Chin?
Arun Shouri
The Indian Express, 12.2.2008
Title "Shipla Shetty Trumps Arunachal again"