Beijing: A day after India became a member of the prestigious Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)- which is yet to admit China because of its dodgy proliferation record, an editorial in state run media has made scathing remarks against Indians calling them self-centered, self righteous and perhaps lacking in morals.
The entire editorial in the Global Times heaps insults on Indians who according to the Chinese paper don't understand nationalism, have no knowledge of morals, cravenly follow the west and are spoiled.
"India's nationalists should learn how to behave themselves. Now that they wish their country could be a major power, they should know how major powers play their games," it says.
The editorial hit out at New Delhi describing India as a "a bit smug" in its dealing with the international community, a result of Delhi's being "spoiled" by the West.
The editorial also targeted the country for its supposed adulation of the West.
"Recent years have seen the Western world giving too many thumbs up to India, but thumbs down to China. India is spoiled. Although the South Asian country's GDP accounts for only 20 percent of that of China, it is still a golden boy in the eyes of the West, having a competitive edge and more potential compared to China. The international "adulation" of India makes the country a bit smug in international affairs."
Last week, China succeeded in obstructing India's membership of the 48-nation NSG, which controls the trade and transfer of nuclear technology and ensures against the proliferation of nuclear arms.
Despite staunch lobbying by the US for India and a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the NSG meeting in Seoul ended without a decision on India's application, filed in May.
In editorial claims that it was Rules, not China, that prevented India's entry.
China says that membership cannot be granted to India because it has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the main global arms pact.
"It is morally legitimate for China and other members to upset India's proposal in defence of principles," said the Global Times, which is part of the ruling Communist Party of China's publications.
The editorial railed, "Recent years have seen the Western world giving too many thumbs up to India, but thumbs down to China. India is spoiled. Although the South Asian country's GDP accounts for only 20 per cent of that of China, it is still a golden boy in the eyes of the West."
"The international adulation of India makes the country a bit smug in international affairs," it said.
However, China does believe that unlike common Indians the Indian government is alright. "On the contrary, the Indian government behaves decently and is willing to communicate,"the editorial concludes.
