Dont behave like a spoilt child, Chinese media tells India

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NEW DELHI: Chinas official media on Thursday warned India to stop behaving like a spoilt kid
and learn lessons from how China handled Donald Trump after the US president-elect challenged
One-China policy.

Sometimes, India behaves like a spoilt kid, carried away by the lofty crown of being the biggest
democracy in the world. India has the potential to be a great nation, but the countrys vision is
shortsighted, an article in the state-run Global Times said.

NDTV quoted the article as saying India should draw some lessons from the recent interactions between
Beijing and Trump over Taiwan.

After putting out feelers to test Chinas determination to protect its essential interests, Trump has met
Chinas restrained but pertinent countermeasures, and must have understood that Chinas bottom line -
sovereign integrity and national unity is untouchable, the paper said.

While the article did not elaborate on counter measures, China besides protesting to Mr Trump over his
phone call to the Taiwanese President and his comments questioning One-China policy, also seized an
unmanned underwater vehicle in the disputed South China Sea, the first such incident in the area, NDTV
said.

The drone was returned subsequently after protests from US and Mr Trump, an incident seen as an attempt
by China to flex its muscles ahead of the President-elect taking over office next month.

The drone operated by a US survey vessel in the South China Sea was seized by a Chinese navy ship.

Even the US would have to think twice before it messes with China on such sensitive problems, so what
makes India so confident that it could manage?, the article said.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2016