India is "honestly careful" about China's sensitivities on Taiwan and Tibet, but Beijing does not show the same deference to New Delhi's control concerns, urging the government to consider using all options in its China policy, including ties with Taiwan.
In a report listed in Parliament, the Committee on External Affairs, headed by former minister of state in EAM Shashi Tharoor, noted India does not accord any tactful appreciation to Taiwan despite the budding nature of exchanges between the two sides.
The ministry has argued that it does not want to "turn over" this policy of the Indian government in admiration of China's sensitivity on the matter.
"It comes as a matter of concern to the committee that even when India is overly alert about China's sensitivities while dealing with Taiwan and Tibet, China does not show the dame deference while dealing with India's sovereignty concerns, be it in the case of Arunachal Pradesh or that of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir".
The committee said that given China's burly approach of late while dealing with some issues pertaining to India; it is difficult for it to be content with India continuing with its predictably admiring foreign policy towards China.
"Dealing with a country like China essentially requires a flexible approach. The committee strongly feels that the government should consider using all options including its relations with Taiwan, as part of such an approach".
The committee also noted that significant inroads had been made by China in India's neighborhood and their impact on the country's outreach activities in those countries.
The panel said that despite the ministry's "ambivalence" on whether this reflects some sort of a purposeful hold policy of India by China, it was tending to see it as nothing less than an "indirect suppression policy".
On China's One Belt One Road plan, the panel said that its details are unraveling, and it is becoming increasingly obvious that the BRI has been rooted in opaqueness and appears to be a vehicle for Chinese "hegemonic, geopolitical, financial and commercial interests".
The committee said that India, as a responsible member of the comity of nations, had earnestly pointed out the fundamental flaws in BRI related to lack of universally recognized international norms, good governance, and rule of law, openness, transparency, and equality.
The panel said that it was troubled to note that despite India's strong sovereignty objections to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), it is being openly "trumpeted as a gift to Pakistan by China".
The panel said that it wants India to take up the matter of CPEC at various international fora, so as to make its opposition clear and to simultaneously put pressure on China for making it realize its double standards.
