sonia visits beijing!!!an insult to India by China

NEW DELHI: Eighty heads of state and government will grace the Beijing Olympics in August but PM Manmohan Singh will not be among them.

Not because he is too busy, but because he was not invited. In fact, neither India's head of state nor government have been invited, with the invitation going to its most important politician, Sonia Gandhi.

The Congress chief is unlikely to attend, leaving that job to sports minister M S Gill. But even if you are really charitable, it can't be denied that it's yet another Chinese snub of pretty large proportions, and no amount of earnest protestations from government functionaries about the wonderful state of Sino-Indian relations will change that.

In October 2007, when Sonia visited Beijing, she received a welcome fit for a head of state. It raised eyebrows in India because it showed where the Chinese government was focusing its attention. It was then that the Chinese leadership first extended an invitation to her to attend the Bejing Olympic Games.

Although the government was the first to deny it, the scale of Sonia's visit prompted a delay in the prime minister's visit to Beijing. He was initially supposed to make his summit visit at the end of 2007, but this had to be pushed to the new calendar year. In 2008, the Beijing Olympics acquiring a distinct political hue with the Tibetan protests. Consequently, India-China ties took on a strained look, made worse by China's repeated incursions in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.

China's internal troubles did not stop it from keeping the Indian government is a state of permanent squirm — first with repeated claims to Arunachal and then by incursions into Sikkim. In fact, foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee was faced with a sudden cancellation of his meeting with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao.

Also by this time, China had invited pretty much every world leader to the Olympics, but maintained a silence on India. India wasn't on the first list, or the second. While the Chinese government has invited the who's who in terms of heads of government to the Games, in the case of India, it made a clear distinction between the head of government and the most powerful political leader in the ruling combine. When Mukherjee visited Beijing in June, the formal invitation was finally made — to Sonia. Officials, when questioned, evaded the issue.

The PM would not have gone, said officials trying to defend the lack of an invitation. In October, Singh will be in Beijing for the ASEM summit, which officials say will be his second visit there this year. So a third visit during the Olympics was not on his radar. But as with much of India-China thorny issues, this too is looking more and more like a post-facto justification. Sources requesting anonymity said the Chinese leadership, which also derives its strength from the party, merely looked at the Indian leadership through that perspective.

However, seen in almost any light, the Chinese decision is little short of a snub to the PM personally and his office.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Beijing_Olympics_China_invites_Sonia_not_P...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday praised the "organising genius" of the Chinese people,

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Cong_CPC_sign_MoU_to_enhance_ties/ar...

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[maomao667]

@cidrose

Of course Taiwan is part of China.

It is never seperated from China, even it is ruled by Chinese KMT now.

Tibet was a territory of China in Yuan, Qin dynasty.

And you say China is heading for world empire ? Fucking bullshit !!!

The western world has never stoped trying invading and spliting up China.

And India is always a tool for the fucking western world since you were colonized by the British.

[pj06yaa]

how ironic that Indians make fun of China. The indians had seven years to prepare for the Commonwealth Games but still managed to bring a bad name to itself. China however managed to put on the best olympics the worls has ever seen. India and Chia are great together and they should work forward to control Pakistan.

[pampooshampoo]

Actually Sonia should be and is true premister of india, because she was not born in india, so prejudice indians didn't accept her as preminister of India.

[jeRRYdesired]

@pj06yaa

you are correct, china also suffering from corruption, but it hav a large number of complementary compared to India, their implementation power is strong, fast

[jeRRYdesired]

@mrnawanshehr

split your mothr's pussy before that

[MrBombchinanow]

WHY IS THAT ITS ALWAYS , other countries pm's going to visit MOTHER FUCKING CHINA, to settle a problem , WHICH MOTHER FUCKING CHINA CREATED FIRST.?????

CHINA doesn't want to lose face by visiting others , but THEY WANT OTHERS to visit them each and every time.

WHAT is wrong with this indian gov..........?????????

The next time CAN YOU get the chinkies to visit MOTHER INDIA???????

iNSTEAD OF INDIA GOING THERE ALWAYS , as though the chinese are a very important asses.....

[chotuzwazzz]

@mrnawanshehr Get the fuck off bitch.

[mrnawanshehr]

Divide India to Get Peace in the Asia

India =Mess

[neverdiealone]

haha good joke ... u want to compare india with china ? no way in hell but still dream on.

[Rohit84up]

Oh please, leave poor Sonia Gandhi alone. She is the best back seat driver our country could have and im pretty pleased with her performance.

[kumarsa108]

@maomao667 Tibet being a part of old Chinese empires is not a reason invading a sovereign country in modern times. Tibet also ruled parts of China in the 7th century. Englad once ruled the region of Normandy in France. These are not excuses for occupying other people.