New Delhi, August 19: India and China are unlikely to allow their high economic growth to be disrupted by any military conflict in the coming decades, a former Navy officer said today. “Both the neighbouring countries are on path of high economic growth and a war between them may ruin the process completely, which both the countries would not like to allow in the coming decades,” Rear Admiral (Retd) K Raja Menon said here.
Underlining the growing importance of India and China, Menon, a defence analyst, said the two countries were being so influential that a full fledged war between them will take the shape of another ”world war”. Speaking about Pakistan, Menon said the country is facing different internal crises and is unlikely to recover from them in years to come.
“Pakistan is facing many internal crisis which it will not be able to contain as a huge number of ”youth bulge” in the country will be a great obstacle in coming days,” he said. Menon was addressing a gathering after receiving the Professor M L Sondhi Prize for international politics for 2008.
The award instituted by M L Sondhi Memorial Trust and M L Sondhi Institute for Asia Pacific Affairs in 2006 comprises a cash of Rs one lakh and a plaque.
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