Word: pakistan
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...NEFA as Chinese territory. It is an unreasonable prelude to negotiations, the statement claimed, for India to insist on occupying all the disputed territory. It is quite possible that Chinese offers to negotiate were made in good faith, since China did reach an amicable boundary settlement with Pakistan. China may well have regarded the Indian harassment of its posts in Ladakh as "aggression" to which an attack farther east was an appropriate reply...
Whatever the reason for the Chinese attack in the east, the Indians have good cause for alarm. South of the NEFA lies Assam, with its oil reserves and potential hydroelectric sites. This land-locked area is east of East Pakistan, and is connected to the rest of India by a neck of land which in one place is only about 20 miles wide. If the Indians cannot stop a Chinese advance through the Himalayas, they cannot hope to stop it once it reaches the plains. From there, the Chinese could drive on to East Pakistan and close off Assam...
...event, the Western nations should not expect too great a change in India's international position. India has pursued its neutralism not so much because of a love for peace above all else--its dealings with Pakistan and Goa, as well as with rebellious groups within India itself prove this--but because this path saves it a lot of the problems that come with participation in the Cold War. The desire to avoid these problems will probably continue long into the future...
...opportunities that should sustain the World Bank's reputation for hardheadedness. Early in his career, Woods formed a close friendship with a bond salesman from Atlanta named Eugene Black. After Black took over the World Bank, he called on Woods to help organize private development corporations in India, Pakistan and the Philippines. Woods's biggest international coup came when he persuaded Egypt's Nasser to compensate the former shareholders of the Suez Canal...
None of these reasons, unfortunately, is particularly meaningful--or rather, each means far to much. The first approach, for example, can lead directly to the authorization of certain military aid programs whose well-publicized results are to encourage powerful military elites or rulers in some countries (like Pakistan or Argentina) and to offend other governments in neigh-boring countries (like Afghanistan or Thailand). It can also lead to Congressional veto of funds whose usefulness in the immediate bipolar cause is hardly obvious. The second approach has the advantage of subtly prodding the guilt-consciousness of Representatives or their constituents...