Youth Beaten to Death in India After Mistaken as Chinese

Nido Tania, a 19 year old Indian freshman in a private university from northeastern area, was new to the capital city New Delhi. He walked in a corner store in Lajpat Nagar, and asked the shopkeeper for directions. The shopkeeper thought he was a Chinese, and with help from some friends, beat Tania to death with 'sticks and steel rods'.

An Indian youth was beaten to death in the capital city of India, because he looked like a Chinese. And it went even worse, when police in New Delhi didn't care.

Tania was from a region Arunachal Pradesh near India's border to China. People from there look like Chinese. As a matter of fact, they are actually Chinese as the territory had been claimed by the Chinese government to be part of China. Regardless, it's shocking to learn that you could be beaten to death just because of your look.

Sophy Chamroy, a 22 year old college student, who also comes from that region said incidents like this 'happened every day in Delhi'. Recently there were three other cases when students from that region was beaten. In a fourth case, a 21 year old beautician was killed. 'We have little faith in the Delhi police', said Albina Subba an advertising writer from that region.

Police was at the scene on Jan 30, 2014 when Tania was beaten by the New Delhi shopkeeper but did not take action. When the police left, Tania was beaten again, and died the next day due to injury to his head and chest. Discrimination against students from northeast had been so pervasive and sever that the parliament specifically passed an anti-racial law. Nevertheless, local police chose to follow their heart/hatred against Chinese looking kids.

Indian police have not taken action, as of this time. According to media report on Feb 5, 2014, Delhi police refused to submit a postmortem report, which would be needed to trigger a criminal investigation. They are so proud of beating a Chinese looking youth, even when he came from northeastern India, as if they defeated a real Chinese army.

Students from northeastern regions have been protesting in Delhi. They message they heard, so far, has been 'go back to China'.

Indian Software Developers

You are not alone as a programmer. There are 18.2 million people like you who write code for a living today around the world.

According to Evans Data, whose WOT score was dangerous low BTW, India will have more software developers than the US in four years.

By 2018, India will have 4.5 million software developers, in comparison to 4.5 million in the US. Currently, the two countries have 2.75 million and 3.6 million programmers.

India is seeing an edge in age composition, with about half of its 1.2 billion population are under 25 year old. In the next couple of decades, India will add about 110 million workers to its labor force, more than the US, China, Russia and Japan combined.

China will have 1.9 million programmers in 2018.

A Turning Point of Chinese Students Study Abroad

The Council of Graduate Schools released new data which showed a U turn for number of Chinese students applying to schools in the US.

Among regions tracked by the Council, India, Brazil and Africa saw significant gains in number of applications, while China, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada and Europe saw decline. In the case of Chinese applicants, there is a 5% loss comparing year 2012 to 2013. It is a dramatic change because in three previous years, the number had been growing by 19%, 21% and 20% respectively.

One way of reading this change is that, in addition to many Chinese applied within the US, China had reached the same level of development with South Korea and European countries, when youth are no longer eyeing the US and the only viable path to success.

There are two Chinas on the mainland. Those who benefit from the economic reform and social heritage and those who do not. For the first group, their technical skills, income and purchase power are comparable to peers in developed countries. They are becoming less motivated to looking to the west. The second group which are comprised of roughly half of Chinese population are still too poor to think about studying abroad.

Hopefully, we will see the next bump when the fortune is trickled down to Chinese families who are still struggling for basic life needs.

India Government Demands Facebook and Twitter Password

India Government asked Facebook and Twitter to hand over user information, including encrypted communications, in name of anti-terrorism.

India passed a new law which states Internet companies must turn over user information, including password, etc. upon government's request. A court issued warranty is not necessary.

In the States, Utah already granted prosecutors warrantless subpoena power in sex crimes with children involved.

In the UK, RIM vowed to assist the London police to track down users of its Blackberry who posted inciting messages online. Blackberry is known for its secure communication, guarded by encryption method which RIM claims impossible to break, not even by itself, or at least as it told the India government last time when they demand access to user information.

Indian or Chinese

The population of the 'angry youth' in China are very sensitive to anything happened in Japan with a thread of Chinese element (and usually fast in mobilizing a protest). However, few in China pays attention to India, even when the government of India repeatedly took China as their primary target when showing off their mighty military power. You would read words like 'can reach ________ of China', after each successful Indian missile launch test, where the bland could replaced by Chinese cities such as Chengdu, Wuhan, and most recently Beijing. By and large, few Chinese see India, even when they look down on a map. It's understandable, in a sense, because most southern Asian countries traditionally hold closer ties to Chinese culture than Indian which is blocked by the Mountain Everest.

Indians, on the other hand, are extremely wary over every Chinese move, domestically or internationally. It is also understandable, in a way. Through October to November of 1962, in the highest of China's 'three years difficulty' when up to 30 million people starved to death, India saw the opportunity and launched an aggressive war along disputed boarder with China. At the time, India was the global leader of the world Non-Aligned Movement, while China was having odds with both superpowers at the time. As a matter of fact, had two small scale boarder conflicts with the USSR. Backed with military equipments from both US and USSR, Indian thought they could conquer Tibet region, and if China didn't budge, they could easily crush China.

The result was disappointing. The entire Indian military collapsed once China's border patrol fired back. As China did not have much military presence at all, one Chinese soldier often had to keep order of hundreds of captures (in earlier stage) and surrenders (in later stage). With Mao's unique sense of humor, all captures weapons and equipments were carefully dissembled and cleaned, fixed and polished before they were packed and returned to Indian military. And Mao ordered Chinese army to withdraw 100 miles back to show off his personal generosity. There are two lines of border between China and India. The Chinese claim line and the Indian claim line. Before the Sino-India war, Chinese boarder patrol controls the Indian claim line, which was inside the Chinese claim line. After the war, Chinese military was 100 miles even north of the Indian claim line. Mao, like many communist leaders at the time, sees China an indescribably element of the international revolutions and see little value in territory claims.

On the other side, the war gave the Indian army an unbearable burden, in the sense that they gained a big territory after losing a humiliated war. Every minute from then on, they have been having the nightmare that they lose the land in another war, while Mao was no longer a leader in China.

The 'lost land of China' has since been a refuge of Tibetan dissidents. In the 1960s, CIA used it to train anti-China guerrillas, in the 1980s, India used it to host monks fled from communist rein. At the turn of the new century amid China's economics leap, however, the land and people living there are becoming a hot spot, as residents advocate for closer tie with China. Many expressed willingness for Chinese rule, rather than Indian control.

Perhaps communists are right for once: it's really not important what government claims, what matters is what people wants and how people identify themselves. The government of India should study Mao's wisdom, and stop count on military force in boarder dispute.

Ancient Wisdom

A Chinese idiom, 养寇自重, or foster small enemies to promote oneself. Military leaders in border areas often do not eliminate some small enemies so that they could claim to their boss in the capital cities the importance of their job. It's a strategy can be spotted through thousands of years of Chinese history.

The neighboring country India, another great ancient culture, derived from these theories and elevated it to a new level, when there are no real enemies, they would kill some innocent civilian and tell the world they are terrorists.

An investigation conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir (a border area controlled by India while in dispute by Pakistan) police revealed a set up by Indian Army troops to kill local civilians then claim they are Pakistani terrorists.

On April 30 2010, three local boys were lured by another local individual who had been paid by the Indian Army to a remote area of Machil, close to the truce line between India and Pakistan, where a trap was set up by the Rajputana Rifles, the most senior rifle regiment of the Indian Army. The three clueless teenagers were surrounded by the regiment and literally torn to pieces by heavy gunfire pouring down from the sky. They the Indian Army faked the scene to make it like a random encounter with armed Muslims terrorists from Pakistan. The bodies of the three teenagers were presented to the Indian Army headquarter as evidence of anti-terrorists victories.

The police arrested three people involved, and is seeking custody of an army colonel D K Pathania, a major Upinder and five other military personnels responsible for the incident. The Indian Police sent a letter to the Indian Army on June 28, 2010, 'asked them to expedite the process of handling over the Army officers and troopers so that investigation in the case proceeds', a request that did not get an answer.

People in the area have long been accusing the Indian Army for killing innocent residents, while this case bing the first confirmed by India's own police investigation. Evidents showed such cases were endorsed and organized by senior army officers. Indian Army had long been bragging its critical role in the US's anti-terrorism war, and had been desperate to back up the claim.

Macaca Gang Fights in Parliament

Former Virginia government and senator George Allen was caught on tape introducing an Indian descendant stalker from his opponent (Jim Webb)'s campaign the 'Macaca', and subsequently lost his 2006 reelection campaign as well as his once hailed presidential aspiration. Allen was not the first career politician stepped on his own foot for telling the truth, but he was in the first one stabbed by the YouTube phenomena. The one seat flip also tipped the balance of the Senate and gave control to the Democrats.

Well, there could be time when (even domesticated) macacas find it hard to cover their tails. Had camera phones been allowed in Indian Parliament by 2006, Allen probably could have a chance to prove his point. Now Allen is probably rolling all over in his retiree housing.;-)

The Line between China and India

China has boarder disputations with almost every single one of its more than a dozen neighbors. There are two reasons: 1) As a single center force in the region, in tradition China does not have an idea on legal boarders. The world is comprised of two parts, those China care to rule directly, and those that China doesn't bother to rule directly. Even the latter one can only survive when they recognize China's dominance. There's no point to draw a specific line from China's point of view. 2) The last Chinese empire collapsed inwards so rapidly that the actually controlled line of China fell far back to whatever legal or pseudo legal agreements that may have existed. Although in theory China still claims a big territory, but the actual controlled land is far less smaller.

A big part of Tibet, almost all of the agricultural land of Tibet, are now controlled by India. Around 2003-2005, China and India made an deal that Indian would keep quiet about the legal status of Indian controlled Chinese land (so that it may be challenged in the future), while China would recognize India's control over Sikkim. Sikkim used to be a sovereign kingdom under Chinese protection. India took over the place in 1975 with military force, and made it part of India. However, China did not recognize India's ruling until 2005. A document showed Chinese government instructed map be redrawn.

Rumor on the Internet had it that China was moving troops to the disputed boarder, a gesture that China was not happy after India tried to legalized the actual controlling of this land. Chinese are feeling being cheated by the Indian.

In an unrelated note, for the first time in history and finally, the UK explicitly recognised China's sovereignty over Tibet. Foreign Secretary David Miliband issued a statement, 'Like every other EU member state, and the United States, we regard Tibet as part of the People's Republic of China.' Before this, the British has been the only major country in the world that hadn't make a clear acknowledgement of the Chinese ruling in Tibet, but rather resort the Sino-Tibetan relationship to an obscured word 'sovereignty', which was a reflection of the British's view of ever expanding of the kingdom in the 1900s.

Toilet Stories

Indians who used to release themselves on open streets were paid to cover up when they were doing the 'thing'. In this CNN photo, "a slum resident in India uses a toilet that opens into the water below as children swim."

While the Beijing government tried to meet the peak of the Olympic tourists rush by building more public restrooms, Indian government are facing an opposite challenge. That is, how to attract residents, who had been used to the convenience of doing it on streets, to use toilets.

Reuters reported that Indian government were bribing Indians to use toilets instead of releasing themselves on the street. Indians could earn about $1 per month if they went to public toilets enough times.

Indians: Fastest Growing Illegal Immigrants

Although 7 million Mexicans made up the majority of illegal immigrants in the US, Indians has more potential to take up the top illegal immigrants spot if the trend continues. There were about 120,000 illegal Indian immigrants in the US in 2000, while the number has grown to 270,000 in 2006 which converts to an increase of 125%.

President Hu's Gift

Chinese President Hu Jintao started his India visit today. He brought with him a gift, an unearthed Buddhapada stone made in China 1500 years ago. Buddhaim spreaded to China as early as 200 B.C. Lack of authentic scriptures, people had been using liberty in interpreting the true meaning of Buddhism. Monk Xuanzhuang went to Inida in 627 A.D. to study Buddhaim and bring back sutras. This Buddhapada was made by Monk Xuanzhuang.

The issue at stake is whether the CCP boss has the legitimacy to give national treasure as gift to foreign government?

China Second in Overseas Mail Back Money

The United Nations "International Migration and Development" said overseas Chinese mailed $21.3 billions back home in 2004, second only to Indians, who mailed back $21.7 billions.