Articles by Arabinda Ray

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The author has provided an interesting description of the Chinese negotiating style. He points out that the combination of Sino-centric tradition and revolutionary experience have been the conditioning factors for Chinese policy-makers and that one can discern continuity in the Chinese negotiating stylo over the centuries. Their belief in the inevitability of victory and their sense of time lessness add unique flavour to the Chinese style. It is now well known that the Chinese try to predetermine the outcome of negotiations by insisting on certain phraseology for the items on the agenda. They argue on procedures and format as much as on substantive issues, The description of the Panmunjom talks, which, in the author's words, "institutionalised the diplomacy of stalemate", throws light on such rigidity, impersonality and hostility on the part of the Chinese negotiators. Even very small things are used by the Chinese to denote unfriendly atmosphere, such as the use of ash-trays on the negotiating table dividing the North and South Korea delegations.

December 7, 1968 the starting point, it becomes for the author the conclusion even after the Government had openly repugned it.
Lade of clarity sometimes leads the author into unhelpful situations. For example, considering speculations about Pakistan acquiring nuclear weapons, Subrahmanyam writes: "Whatever be the considerations on which the Indian decision is likely to be based, Pakistan's threat to enter into weapon production to counter an Indian bomb is the least likely one to influence it" and he thinks that China's arming of Pakistan with nuclear weapons is a possibility and that India might do well to be on guard against such a contingency. The author even ventures to predict that the "coming decade may well see Pakistan reconciling herself to an appropriate equation of power and role within the subcontinent". One only wishes Subrahmanyam's prediction would come true and that Indo- Pak security problems be sorted out.

Business has not been honoured by tradition in Indian society. Social values through the ages have tended to give importance to virtues which are opposed to the qualities that lead to success in business.