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China potential threat number one: Fernandes
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SPECIALCORRESPONDENT on 30 March, 2008 04:05:00
 
Venting anger over the Tibet crisis and India's response to it, the convener of
NDA said the Olympic torch should not be allowed to come to India and that he
had asked his "colleagues" and others to make "whatever effort" to prevent the
flame's run in this country.
"It was not a mistake but an error. It should not have been done," he said
about India's decision to recognise Tibet as part of China during the previous
Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in which he was the Cabinet minister.
Fernandes, who had expressed his negative mind-set towards the Asian dragon
during his tenure also, denounced China still as an "potential threat number
one" and "could become an enemy".
Commenting on the recent incident of Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao being
summoned by the Chinese Foreign Ministry past midnight, Fernandes said New Delhi
had "surrendered" over the issue.
"Well, our government allowed it. It has no shame," he said, adding that the
government should have advised its envoy to wait till the next day. "Elsewhere
that's what would have happened."
Rao was summoned past midnight to register concern over breach of security at
Chinese Embassy in New Delhi.
"India has sold out to China," he alleged. Asked whether India was being
"bullied" by China, Fernandes replied "absolutely, and it accepts it." (PTI)