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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Real geopolitik
India should act tough before it is too late as reports have it that over 25,000 convict-labourers from China have arrived in Sri Lanka to execute contracts awarded by the Sri Lankan government to China.
"The Indian Government has sanctioned Rs. 1,000 crore towards reconstruction of the war-ravaged Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. The reconstruction contracts have now been awarded by the Sri Lankan Government to China. So the Indian tax-payers' money, sent for the benefit of the Tamils of Sri Lanka, is ending up in China's kitty. The flight of Indian money to China is the least of my concerns," Miss Jayalalithaa said.
Reminding India of the "1962 Chinese belligerence" when "India was outclassed and outsmarted by masters of real-geopolitik," she warned that history could repeat itself.
Please explain to me the highlighted part.
Source : http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=331629&catid=36
"The Indian Government has sanctioned Rs. 1,000 crore towards reconstruction of the war-ravaged Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. The reconstruction contracts have now been awarded by the Sri Lankan Government to China. So the Indian tax-payers' money, sent for the benefit of the Tamils of Sri Lanka, is ending up in China's kitty. The flight of Indian money to China is the least of my concerns," Miss Jayalalithaa said.
Reminding India of the "1962 Chinese belligerence" when "India was outclassed and outsmarted by masters of real-geopolitik," she warned that history could repeat itself.
Please explain to me the highlighted part.
Source : http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=331629&catid=36
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Greetings, Gary, the highlighted part is the author's interpretation of the German word Realpolitik - a type of politics and diplomacy based on purely economic, practical considerations that neglected ideological matters. It probably means that reconstruction contracts as an instrument of Realpolitik can help China 'outsmart' India, just as it presumably happened in 1962. 'Geo' refers to the relationship between two big countries linked geographically and competing for dominance on the continent.
- Greetings, Gary, the highlighted part is the author's interpretation of the German word Realpolitik - a type of politics and diplomacy based on purely economic, practical considerations that neglected ideological matters.
- It probably means that reconstruction contracts as an instrument of Realpolitik can help China 'outsmart' India, just as it presumably happened in 1962.
- 'Geo' refers to the relationship between two big countries linked geographically and competing for dominance on the continent.
- Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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Greetings, Gary,
the highlighted part is the author's interpretation of the German word Realpolitik - a type of politics and diplomacy based on purely economic, practical considerations that neglected ideological matters. It probably means that reconstruction contracts as an instrument of Realpolitik can help China 'outsmart' India, just as it presumably happened in 1962.
the highlighted part is the author's interpretation of the German word Realpolitik - a type of politics and diplomacy based on purely economic, practical considerations that neglected ideological matters. It probably means that reconstruction contracts as an instrument of Realpolitik can help China 'outsmart' India, just as it presumably happened in 1962.
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