What Rahul told Kamal Haasan about China

When Kamal Haasan brought up the issue of China, Rahul Gandhi compared it with the Russia-Ukraine situation...

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00:00You were talking about China. I want you to say more.

00:03What the Chinese are saying to us is, be careful with what you're doing.

00:08Because we will alter your geography. We will enter Ladakh. We will enter Arunachal.

00:30You were talking about China. I want you to say more.

00:42The security of the country, both internal and external, your opinion on it.

00:47I was speaking to some ex-servicemen the other day, and I was mentioning to them that security

00:52today in the 21st century, it's not good enough just to say, okay, what do our borders look

00:57like, right? Because security today has become a holistic thing. You don't necessarily get

01:04attacked from the borders. You can get attacked from inside. You can get attacked by cyber

01:09weapons. You can get attacked by, you know, use of your media. So, in the 21st century,

01:16one has to have a global view about security. And that's where I think our government has

01:22completely gone and miscalculated. We constantly hear about what is going on on the border.

01:29And the fact of the matter is that China has taken 2,000 kilometers of our territory, square

01:35kilometers. And frankly, we haven't said anything. The prime minister hasn't said anything. The

01:39military has clearly said that they're sitting in our territory. But the prime minister said

01:42nobody has come. This sends a very clear message to China. And the message is, we can do whatever

01:48we want. And India will not respond, right? And in fact, in some of the conversations that they

01:54are having with our military, they are actually making the statement that, look, your prime

01:59minister himself has said we are not in your territory. So, what is the conversation about?

02:02Imagine if you are the leader, right? And your forces and my forces are negotiating. And your

02:09forces are coming and saying you are in my territory. And then I say, no, no, but your

02:12leader has said we are not. So, it destroys the entire negotiation position of India.

02:17So, the single most important thing in the 21st century is that a country has internal cohesion.

02:24That there is harmony in the country, that people are not fighting, that there is peace in the

02:29country and the country has a vision. The point is not going to war, right? The point is being

02:34in a position where you cannot be attacked. And there is a link between a weak economy,

02:39a confused nation without vision, hatred and anger and the Chinese sitting in our territory.

02:45Because they know that we are dealing with internal matters, internal confusion,

02:50an internal lack of harmony. And so, they can just go in and do whatever they want.

02:55Essentially what the Russians have done in Ukraine is they have said, look, we will not

03:00accept that the Ukrainians have a strong relationship with the West. And they have

03:06basically told the Ukrainians, if you have a strong relationship with the West, we will alter

03:11your geography. And that is the exact same principle that can be applied in India.

03:17What the Chinese are saying to us is be careful with what you are doing. Because we will alter

03:24your geography. We will enter Ladakh, we will enter Arunachal. And what I can see is them

03:30building a platform for that type of an approach. So, one of the things that we have, you know,

03:37constantly telling our government is talk about it. If you don't want to talk to the media,

03:41at least talk to the opposition. We understand these things. We might be able to help you,

03:45advise you, you know, bounce ideas off us. But they just don't listen.