一帶一路 | 走進印度之印度統治精英的立場（一）

50多年來，印度政府曾由繼承尼赫魯政治主張的國大黨人以及反尼赫魯主張的人輪流當政，後者包括在1950年代反對邊界讓步的國大黨右派德賽(MorajiDesai)和印度人民黨領袖瓦傑帕伊(A.B.Vajpayee)。他們兩人當總理時的對華政策，同國大党執政時大同小異。瓦傑帕伊1978年在德賽內閣當外長時就曾到中國改善邦交，2003年更以總理身分訪華,使印中關係更上一層樓。這些都是因為第三派中間路線的影響。

For over fifty years, the Indian government had been in power in turn by the Congress Party who inherited the political ideas of Nehru and people who were anti-Nehru, including Moraji Desai who opposed to border concession in 1950s and A.B.Vajpayee, the leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. The policies towards China were similar during Moraji Desai’s and Moraji Desai’s time in power. When Vajpayee was the Minster of foreign affairs in the Desai cabinet in 1978, he devoted himself to the improvement of the diplomatic relation between India and China, and even visited China as a prime minister in 2003, which made the diplomatic relation between India and China even better. All these improvements in the relation between India and China owed to the centrism of the third party of governing elites.
這第三派的特點就是既欣賞中印友好交往的歷史、又冷靜地從現實出發，一方面像保護眼睛一樣保護印度自身的利益，另一方面也意識到中印增進關係對雙方有利。他們不認為中國逐漸強大必然威脅到印度的安全，但也密切注視中國，特別是中國對印度緊鄰的一舉一動。從現實主義的觀點來看，鄰國一天天強大，自己不強起來就有危險。這樣的心情很可理解，不能給它戴上“中國威脅論”的帽子。

The third party not only appreciated the friendly historical relationship between India and China, but also calmly and practically analyzed the impacts of changing relationship between India and China. On the one hand, they carefully protected the interests of India itself, on the other hand, they realized the advantages of the steady and healthy development of the China-India bilateral relation. Although they didn’t believe that the rise of China would be a threat to India, they still kept an eye on China, especially China’s attitude towards his neighbors. From the realism aspect, the growth of your neighbor would pose a threat to you if you did not grow yourself. This consideration of India was understandable, however, this could not be the reason to support the “China’s threat theory”.