Even Secessionists in Northeast India Don't Want to be Part of China

As noted Indophilic Myanmarese writer Thant Myint-U points out, even secessionists in regions like Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Meghalaya have no great love for China. He mentions-

“…there is no indication that people in the Northeast have any desire to come under Chinese domination.  Militant groups have received Chinese training and support, at least in the past, but this was done opportunistically and not out of any special affinity to Beijing.”

In fact, he mentions that he noticed among them, “a sense of dread that, with China’s growing stature and influence”, the little ethnic communities “caught between ‘India proper’ and China would find it harder, not easier, to maintain their separate identities and traditions.”

Another instance that can be quoted in this regard to demonstrate the northeasterners having no special affinity to China is an extract from the renowned novel Bitter Wormwood by noted Naga novelist Easterine Kire, which is stated hereunder (all the characters here are Naga)-

“The two of them kept turning the knobs.  They first listened to some songs and them to more news broadcasts.  There were about four channels they could listen to.  One was a Chinese station where a woman spoke very rapidly in Chinese.  Mother and son laughed uproariously at that because they couldn’t understand a word of what she was saying.  Even the static made them giggle.  Eventually, they made a habit of tuning the radio into the station where news was broadcast in English.”