{"id":106648,"date":"2020-09-15T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106648"},"modified":"2020-09-15T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T22:48:34","slug":"how-to-determine-the-security-threat-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/15\/how-to-determine-the-security-threat-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO DETERMINE THE SECURITY THREAT TO INDIA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The\nsecurity threat to India is a quite complicated archetype and many people\nconfuse with the term the security threat to India. The major reason people get\nconfused about the nature of the threat is specifically delineated and people\nhave a feeling it like a groping in the dark. \n Since Indian independence in 1947\nIndian bureaucrats manipulated and accused any support to surrounding countries\nfrom China as a security threat to India which accused Chinese aided projects\nin  Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and\nBangladesh. There has not been logic in the manipulation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nterm security treat could be defined and applied in many ways, during the cold\nwar India played a police role on account of Russia, and when the economic\npower of Russia declined and the Soviet Union divided to different countries\nIndia had to change the police role, but the economic role has become more\nimportant. India has a severe economic challenge first many surrounding\ncountries have determined import substitution and domestic production of\nagricultural produces. In this environment, India has no options but to\nmanipulate the security threat against the economic policies of surrounding\ncountries.   It seems that the term\nsecurity threat is used to attract investment from outside to surrounding\ncountries, to India rather than a military threat to India from China or any\nother country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally,\na security threat to a country could come in various ways such as political,\neconomic, social, cultural, religious, and many other ways. Print media in Sri\nLanka broadly discuss the appropriate policy guide to foreign relations and a\nfamous legal advisor, Mr.Neville Ladduwahetty mentioned in his recent article\npublished in Daily News that neutrality\u201d<\/strong> is the appropriate policy\nguide to foreign relations.  The term\nneutrality is a complicated term and how the concept of neutrality should be\npractically applied in a complex environment is a problem to many.  The concept of neutrality is applied in\nrespect of India only or with other countries in the region or the other\ncountries of the world may be a problem. During the cold war era, certain\nforeign policy analysts delated view that no country can stick to Non-Alignment\naccording to the developments of the modern world, and all countries need to\nfollow NON-NEUTRAL POLICY\u201d. Logically all countries in the world must align to\na power bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academics\nI spoke to had a problem explaining the difference between the terms\nNeutrality\u201d and Non-Align\u201d, and some stated that the two terms have a\nsimilarity of meaning and in practice, there may be contrariety.  Sri Lanka has been a giant of Non-Align\npolicy since the Bandung summit and India has also been active in the\nassociation of Non-Align nations. When there was a conflict between India and\nPakistan creating a separate country, Bangladesh,  Sri Lanka faced obscurity handling foreign\nrelations between India and Pakistan, both countries were members of the\nNon-Align movement. As a first-year university student after the JVP conflict\nin 1971, I observed that Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was\nhandling the problem very successful way. Some people stated that Mrs.B used\nher relationship with the Nehru family to tackle the issue, and how did she\nignore Mr.Yahiya Khan\u2019s behavior was unknown to people of Sri Lanka.    I\nalso heard that Mrs.Sirimavo Bandaranaike intervened to settle a conflict\nbetween India and China. Nobody explained to me the strategy used by Mrs.B.   What kind of policy guide was practiced by\nMrs. Bandaranaike, Neutrality\u201d or Non-Alignment\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nidea of the SECURITY THREAT TO INDIA would have practically considered on both\noccasions, and how it was determined by the foreign policy-makers is hard to\ndescribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nthe COVID 19 pandemic, the world has faced a different environment.  The truth is the military research, and\ninvented weapons have failed to fight with the pandemic.  More people have died from the pandemic than\nany war recorded in history. Although India and China can treat any country by\nmilitary means, both countries cannot threaten the pandemic. In this situation,\n what is the use of military power, and\nwhat is important neutrality, or non-alignment? The security threat to India\u2019s\nconcept has failed to stop the pandemic in India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My\nfeeling is if India, China, and the surrounding countries work together the\nsecurity threat from the pandemic could be challenged or stopped if they spend\ntrillions of dollars to strengthen the immune system of people instead of\nmilitary power.              <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The security threat to India is a quite complicated archetype and many people confuse with the term the security threat to India. The major reason people get confused about the nature of the threat is specifically delineated and people have a feeling it like a groping in the dark.   Since Indian independence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}