The Kerala communists refuse to be disciplined and stop infighting

The Vijayan-Achuthanandan war has been going on in Kerala for several decades. In 1990, VS left all Pinarayi men out from key positions, who got back at VS by meting out the same treatment to VS loyalists during the Mallapuram conference in 2005. He also packed VS’s cabinet with his cronies, when VS became the CM last year, making him a lameduck CM. VS too retaliated by starting an anti-encroachment drive in Kerala.

Party bosses had hoped that the rap on their knuckles in the form of suspension from the politburo would chasten them. On the contrary, the infighting has intensify ed further, with the feuding camps relentlessly plotting fresh moves against each other.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Shaking hands with ‘Agent Orange’

It is always wise, but never easy to ‘forgive and forget’ an old foe, who has showered your fields with toxic defoliants and subjected generations to come to the ill-effects of the deadly chemical known as ‘Agent Orange’. This is exactly what the Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet has done by undertaking a historic visit to the United States – the first ever by a post-war head of the unified communist state (last November, Bush had visited Hanoi).

Vietnam, one of the fastest growing economies in South- East Asia (registered 8.2% economic growth in 2006), is keen to establish a free trade agreement with the global economic leader (US is Vietnam’s largest export market). “The American firm Intel plans to set up a microchip plant in Ho Chi Minh city, worth $1 billion. The plant will be operational by 2009,” Pankaj Kumar Jha (an East Asia expert with IDSA) told B&E. On this historic visit, Triet is going to woo the American business community, promising that his country would “widely open our arms” to them.

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To consider China a friend can be no less than a bomb of a blunder

In addition to this, for years, China was unwilling to accept Sikkim as a part of India. And now, even after they have endorsed the same, their latest intransigence about Arunachal Pradesh is a mere continuation of their long term strategic goals. In the same league, the Chinese interference in the subcontinent is on a rise, be it arming Sri Lanka and Bangladesh or setting up strategic bases in Indian Ocean. China’s economic growth has coincided with a stupendous increase in its defence expenditure, reaching an official level of $45 billion ($70 billion claimed unofficially) with a massive manhunt for oil to fuel the growing economy, where time and again it is confronting ONGC. Yet, it’s not just India. Be it Taiwan, Japan or even United states and Russia, no one knows what the dragon would eventually be up to. In its quest to become the largest economy of the world – as has been predicted by the Goldman Sachs – China would increasingly have face-off s with India. And even though it still makes a lot of sense to maintain economic cooperation with China, under no circumstances can India lower its guard. We paid the price for that in 1962. It’s high time we learnt from history... or from the Chinese DonFeng missiles.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative