I do not think the author meant it seriouslt though. Bandhu: here it is: Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1537393.cms " Forget Pakistan. Forget even the US. The country that really fascinates India is China. Long before the international community coined the word 'Chindia' to denote the world's fastest and second fastest growing economies, India had cast an envious eye on China. It's the country we most love to make hated comparisons with. And in almost every case steel production, power generation, foreign investment, highway construction, tally of Olympic medals China beats us hands down. While we huff and puff to meet our 8 per cent growth target, China cruises along at a comfortable 9 to 10 per cent. While the Municipal Corporation of Delhi goes on a court-directed demolition drive, Shanghai emerges as the construction capital of the world, with highrises sprouting like giant shiitake mushrooms. Forget keeping up with China; we're not even in the same race. They're doing the sprint, we're in the three-legged event. So must we concede defeat? Not if we adopt the strategy of 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em'. Why not? Not just 'Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai', but a Sino-Indian Federation, with the Dragon as the senior partner as befits its greater economic muscle. Confederate with our arch adversary of 1962, with the country that has nuclear proliferated to our sworn enemy, Pakistan? The idea is not at all outlandish. In fact it's being held out as an alternative to the Indo-US strategic partnership: a Russia-China-India axis. Leave an increasingly unstable Russia out of the deal and go the whole hog with China. Instead of being Washington's cat's paw to contain China, New Delhi should consolidate with Beijing. A Sino-Indian confederacy based on mutual give-and-take (we keep Kashmir, you keep Tibet, and we divide Nepal half-half) would nullify the Pakistani threat, with the missiles at Lop Nor switching their sights from New Delhi to Islamabad. With their combined economic might, China and India could not just take on but take over the global market. There'd be a price to pay, of course. China would insist that Sitaram Yechury and Prakash Karat be declared class enemies (though capitalist communist Buddhadeb needn't suffer the same fate). At a pinch, the Chinese might be induced to swallow the bitter pill of Bihar. But they'd certainly draw the line at having to stomach Chinabi cuisine. "