The chief of Tibetan Youth Congress, Gonpo Dhondup has accused Beijing of betraying New Delhi on several occasions despite having signed the Panchsheel Agreement in 1954.
“Former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visited China and signed the Panchsheel Treaty (The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence). India has maintained friendly relations with China, but China is betraying India globally. After the Panchsheel Treaty, there was a war in 1962. And despite the dialogue there was another war in 1967 and there is a continuing war in 1975,” Dhondup said.
He said that India should not trust China, especially the Asian country’s Communist regime.
“What China does is, first they encroach 20-30 kms of the territory and after continuous dialogue they step back 2-3 kms. So, they have already intruded 17-18 km of the Indian Territory. So, the Indian government has to take a strong and concrete system to deal with the communist government in China,” Dhondup asserted.
He said that the people of Tibet are really concerned about China’s aggression in Ladakh and it can only be protected with Tibet’s independence.
“We have a historical record that Tibet remained a buffer zone between India and China for centuries. Till 1959, there was no direct relation between India and China because of Tibet as there was a buffer zone between these two giant nations. After China’s illegal occupation of Tibet, His Holiness Dalai Lama along with 80,000 people were forced to seek refuge in India, Bhutan, and Nepal,” the youth leader said.
He also stated that after 1959, there was “direct contact between the Indian Army and China’s PLA. So the Chinese, time and again, are more aggressive with their claim on the Land of actual control. Not only now, but in 1962, there was a war between India and China, which was started by the Communist government despite the Panchsheel Treaty between India and China”.
Dhondup, who has been a keen observant of India-China relations, especially the border issues, said, “The year 2020 is the 70th year of diplomatic relations between India and Peoples’ Republic of China. The Chinese government must be thankful to the government of India for their support.
India was the first non-socialist country which supported the People’s Republic of China to be the permanent member in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). In return for the kind of gratitude, they are acting in the kind of intrusion process. We are very much concerned,” he said.
After the recent intrusion in the Galwan Valley on June 15, Tibetan Youth Congress organised a campaign to boycott China.
On June 17, almost five NGOs, based in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala city, issued a joint statement saying that the Tibetan community supports India. They sent a solidarity message to the families of the fallen soldiers of Galwan clashes.
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