It has now emerged that the disgraced Pakistani scientist A Q Khan wrote in some notes that Pakistan was helped by China in its nuclear program. He has written that China had actually supplied that Uranium required. If that is not admission of China's help in nuclear proliferation, what is?
But now will the US do anything? At the most they might issue a statement saying that this is being investigated or they might condemn this. Beyond this they cannot do anything. China is too important for American survival today for them to even contemplate taking any action against it. President Obama seems to have cancelled his meeting with the Dalai Lama (George Bush, the earlier President had met him I believe) in order to avoid angering the Chinese.
Are we seeing the emergence of a new global superpower? Shall we have a new concentration of power in the near future? China has either already overtaken or will shortly overtake Japan to become the second largest economy in the world. China has been increasing its power through various means - diplomacy, economic means and military means also. A Chinese intellectual had recently written that India seems to have forgotten the "lessons of the 1962 war" when it allowed the Dalai lama to visit Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. What should India do in such a scenario? What are the Indian leaders' reaction to this changing situation? One can only wonder.
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