Imperial China, Neo-colonial India

Indian Express, Imperial China, neo-colonial india, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/imperial-china-neocolonial-india/15944/2




"After decades of seeing themselves as victims of imperialism, China and India will find the tag of neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism shocking if not distasteful. Yet Beijing and New Delhi must confront a new reality. The greater their economic and political capacity to influence outcomes elsewhere in the world, the stronger will be international scrutiny of their policies." (Mohan, C.Raja)

As I've mentioned before in the previous posts China is seen as a country that has imperialist tendencies and India (which i haven't talked about before and is the msin objective of this post) is portrayed as a neo-colonialist country. India and Chinese have spured economically and politically and now their foreign policies look similar to the ones of the superpowers especially in the interest to defend their new economic interests beyond their borders. This article also talks about how the new interests of this two countries are a threat to existing powers such as the Europeans and Americans. We can observe this situation in Africa "as China and India transform the geopolitical balance in Africa and threaten to push Europe and America from their privileged positions in the developing world, they are bound to face inevitable reaction from the major powers and liberal activists in the West" ( Mohan, C.Raja)

 I think that all this imperialist tendencies have a domino effect. If we remember well India and China have been countries that when they were less developed were victims of imperialism. When this countries develop optim economies and governments that allow them to progress and they are faced with the opportunity of imperialist-or disguised imperialism such as neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism- ideas, they take the opportunity and the same effect spreads. Off course this is all in a long time span and can[t happen in a few years.