Hissing Dragon-Squirming Tiger:

Comparisons, Negotiations

and Attitudes continues....

Another approach, adopted by one prominent media empire, which

seems to have decided to take a partisan attitude on behalf of China on

the question of Tibet in particular, and China-India matters in general,

does not help in producing a balanced Indian approach either. This

particular Chennai-based media group is so noticeably an apologist for

China that a blog-site which debates Sino-Indian affairs refers to it as 'The Chindu: Chennai-Based Chinese National Newspaper.’

As per the most recent information available from open sources, China’s own assessments of their CNP, made separately by the military and civilian academic institutions and averaged within these two categories, is as under:

Comprehensive National Power (CNP), as per the Chinese formulations , is based upon the following (only a few of the following are amplified):

1. Natural Resources, including:

Manpower resources

Land resources

Mineral resources

Energy resources

2. Economic Activities Capability, including: Actual total economic strength

Actual economic strength per capita

Production efficiency Material consumption level Structure of the economy (the proportion of the tertiary industry in the GDP)

3. Foreign Economic Activities Capability, including:

Total import and export trade

Total international reserves

4. Science and Technology Capability, including:

Proportion of research and development in the GDP, number of scientists and engineers, the number of scientists and

engineers per 1,000 people; proportion of machinery and transportation equipment exports in total exports, proportion

of high-technology intensive exports in total exports

5. Social Development Level, including:

Education level Cultural level (adult literacy rate, number of people per 1,000 who get a daily newspaper) Health care level Communications (number of people who have a telephone per 1,000 people)Urbanization (proportion of the urban population in the total

population)

6. Military capability, including:

Number of military personnel, military expenditures,

weapons exports, nuclear weapons (the number of nuclear

launchers; the number of warheads)

7. Government Regulation and Control Capability

8. Foreign Affairs Capability (uses ten factors in a ‘nerve network model’

to carry out abroad assessment

To be continued....