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5. All Han Chinese in the PRC have a great spirit of nationalism, which has been officially fostered and greatly built up in the years preceding the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and have a great deal of national pride bordering on jingoism. While this nationalistic spirit is not present among the three largest of the existing minorities of China, the Han majority are unified by this patriotic spirit, which contrasts greatly with the lukewarm and weak patriotism prevalent in India.
Comparing China and India is therefore a meaningless and misleading exercise. The two countries are incomparable directly on an item-to-item as ‘Asian powers’. Comparing them is like comparing apples
and jackfruit.
SINO-INDIAN BORDER NEGOTIATIONS
On 11th November 2008, China once again ‘angrily’ rejected India’s assertion that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of the country, insisting that Beijing never recognized the ‘illegal McMahon Line’ and that the border was ‘never officially demarcated’. Deeply regretting the
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s statement on the subject made in Tawang on 9th November 2008, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, said that New Delhi has ‘taken no regard of the historical facts’. As for the pending boundary issue between China and India, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said that China is willing to find a solution, which is ‘fair, reasonable and acceptable’ to the two sides through friendly peaceful negotiation in the spirit of mutual understanding and adjustment.
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