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In the wake of last Friday's incident when a group of Tibetan protestors stormed its Embassy, China is worried about the security of the Olympic torch that will go through India from April 17, sources said.
China is not even ruling out bypassing the country if it is not sure of foolproof protection, the sources said.
The Chinese Embassy has taken up the issue of security for the torch with the Indian government and the matter is under discussion, the sources said.
Top officials of the Embassy are engaged in talks with the authorities in the External Affairs Ministry and Indian Olympic Association about ensuring proper security for the torch, they said.
Asked about China's concern, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said that the government will ‘make all arrangements to ensure that the Olympic flame passes through India safely’.
The Chinese side, which was earlier appreciative of the security arrangements made by India at the Embassy, has become doubtful about the protection of the torch after last Friday's incident.
If China is worried about the safety of the torch in India, India should be worried about Indian atheletes in China
If China is worried about the safety of the torch in India, India should be worried about Indian atheletes in China
China - such a powerful country, but so jittery about the pro-Tibet protests. Every country has a weakness, and this is China's. They are so paranoid. The game was all about showcasing China's emergence at the high table of world's power centers. The way things are going, it is just going to tarnish China's image inspite of a successful game. Don't pity China, because they secured the nomination for hosting based on certain promise they made to the west about improving human rights. They thought they could hoodwink the world by taking the cake but not paying for it.
World looks at modern China with high expectations. Everyone is familiar with China, as everyone buys chinese goods. Only a charismatic, intelligent and deeply pro-human china can hope to gain respect of people of world. Olympic games is a god send opportunity to China, to prove that it is worthy of it's ancestor philosophers and accomplished humans second to none. It should show a distinct change, rather than revert to primitive language when stressed by political events.
There could not have been a better time for China to address and understand the Tibetan issue. Tibet was virtually annexed in 1950s by the then chinese politicia, as the country was undergoing a radical communist transformation without a second thought to cons and pros of such a system, as no other alternative seemed to make any practical sense. China was poor, and scared of western military might, and had to develop some civic system so radical that it could help it militarily; and in fact it itself turned out to be no less than a kind of mini martial law. Now every common chinese has a question at the back of their mind, whether such a system is still just in a more developed society; and world which no longer survives on conventional might, rather it is the terror of atomic weapons which balances the scales. It is high time to introspect, and give Tibetans their due dignity and recognition in a rational way. The chinese intelligentia for sure has not become bankrupt of ideas yet.
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