Kolkata: The US was conspiring to project
China as a threat to India to maintain its supremacy in a
unipolar world, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee said on Friday.
Bhattacharjee said it was in the US interest not to allow
the two Asian giants - India and China - to come closer so
that it could maintain its status as the lone superpower in
the present world.
The US was playing up the reported Arunachal Pradesh
incursions and even launched a media campaign highlighting the
issue to counter the rise of China as a superpower,
Bhattacharjee said at a programme celebrating 60 years of
Chinese Revolution.
The US was spearheading a media campaign describing China
as a threat to India to prevent the coming together of India,
China and Russia as a counterforce against it.
"With the fall of Soviet Union, the imperialist USA has
emerged as the only superpower in a unipolar system. But it is
time India, China and Russia joined hands to create an
alternative power centre to counter the US supremacy," he
said.
The CPI(M) politburo member, however, expressed
confidence that the fall of imperialism was imminent as, he
believed, there was no alternative to socialism.
The chief minister, while describing the rapid rise of
China, noted that corruption had made inroads into the
socialist country.
He described at length how the Chinese Communist Party
was trying to weed out corruption and bring about progress in
agriculture and economy to expedite overall progress and
development, saying this could be an example for India.
"We can learn from their mistakes on how things should
proceed in a proper way and how to weed out corruption to make
this easier," he said.
China has now developed a market economy with the strong
participation of private sector, MNCs and Foreign Direct
Investment, he said. However, this has brought in its wake
disparities among villages and cities giving birth to massive
corruption.
"We must watch how China is fighting against corruption
by strengthening law and order and judiciary, and learn lesson
from their experience."
Coming to Indian communist parties, he said, "We never
follow any particular model, but we suit our policies
according to the particular situation prevailing here. Thus it
is not our task to criticise any other country's model or make
any comment on them. We only watch the development and take
lessons from it," Bhattacharjee said.
CPI-M state secretary Biman Bose said even some central
committee members of the Chinese Communist Party were facing
charges of corruption and given punishment. 26,000 party
members in the last six months had been punished on corruption
charges there, he noted.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, October 02, 2009, 21:34