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allow Bhutan to engage with China'  'India will not allow Bhutan
to engage with China'  August 05, 2013 17:22 IST  The recent
withdrawal of subsidies on cooking gas and kerosene to Bhutan,
since revived, has raised the hackles in China, with a state-run
daily saying India will not allow Bhutan to freely engage with
it.  "The withdrawal of subsidies before Bhutan's elections
reflected that India never gives up its power politics where it
doesn't need to", an article written by a scholar from a state-
run think tank in the ruling Communist Party of China's
mouthpiece Global Times said.  "India won't allow Bhutan to
freely engage in diplomacy with China and solve the border
issue," Liu Zengyi, a research fellow at Shanghai Institutes for
International Studies said in his article titled, ‘New Delhi
sees Bhutan as little more than potential protectorate’.
"Besides, India will continue its stanc