CHENNAI: China’s rise can be peaceful but its outcome cannot be guaranteed as its action seem to correspond to a game of Weiqi, a complicated game of encirclement in the chessboard of politics, according to West Bengal governor and former national security advisor M K Narayanan.“Conflict is not inevitable, but as tensions increase, there always is the danger of miscalculation,” Narayanan said while delivering The Triplicane Cultural Academy’s Sixth Rajaji Memorial Lecture ‘China and India: More Rivals than Friends’ here on Thursday evening.“If China’s efforts to reconcile the diverging legacies of Mao Tse Tung and Deng Xiaoping prove less than successful, and India meantime is seen to reap the benefits of its demographic and democratic dividend, then the existential question would be whether the rivalry would spill over into something more problematic,” the ex- national security advisor said.He also said while the world is comfortable with India, Latin American and Africa nations where China has invested in are concerned as to what China’s objective is. Because India doesn’t look down upon any country where as China has a superiority complex,” he said.
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