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April 19th, 2012 
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“It is one of the ways of signalling India’s arrival on the global
stage, that India deserves to be sitting at the high table,” said Harsh
Pant, a defence expert at King’s College, London, describing the launch as a “confidence
boost”.
The launch, which was flagged well in advance, has attracted none of the
criticism from the West faced by hermit state North Korea for a failed bid
to send up a similar rocket last week.
But China noted the launch with disapproval.
“The West chooses to overlook India’s disregard of nuclear and missile
control treaties,” China’s Global Times newspaper said in an editorial
published before the launch, which was delayed by a day because of bad
weather.
“India should not overestimate its strength,” said the paper, which
is owned by the Chinese Communist Party’s main mouthpiece the People’s
Daily.
India has not signed the non-proliferation treaty for nuclear nations, but
enjoys a de facto legitimacy for its arsenal, boosted by a landmark 2008
deal with the United States.
On Wednesday, Nato said it did not consider India a threat. The US State
Department said India’s non-proliferation record was “solid,”
while urging restraint.
India says its nuclear weapons programme is for deterrence only. It is close
to completing a nuclear submarine that will increase its ability to launch a
counter strike if it were attacked.
India lost a brief Himalayan border war with its larger neighbour, China, in
1962 and has ever since strived to improve its defences. In recent years the
government has fretted over China’s enhanced military presence near the
border.
Thursday’s launch may prompt a renewed push from within India’s defence
establishment to build a fully fledged intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM) programme capable of reaching the Americas, though some of India’s
allies may bridle at such an ambition.
“Policy-wise it becomes more complicated from now on, until Agni V,
India really has been able to make a case about its strategic objectives,
but as it moves into the ICBM frontier there’ll be more questions asked,”
said Pant.
The Agni V is the most advanced version of the indigenously built Agni, or
Fire, series, part of a programme that started in the 1960s. Earlier
versions could reach old rival Pakistan and Western China.
“India can now deter China, it can impose maximum possible punishment if
China crosses the red line,” Srikanth Kondapalli, professor in Chinese
studies at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University told Reuters.
The rocket is powered by easier-to-use solid rocket propellants and can be
transported by road.
Source: agencies
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