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I am under the impression that we live on the same planet and one world. It is amazing to listen to these amazing stories about containment and preventing countries from doing one thing or the other. Are we slave traders or opium traders and so on. there is only one power in the world and all others better fall in line? like the British Empire and many others before it?
There is no wishing away of China. It looms large on the horizon of most countries, not just its immediate neighbours. So if Biden wants to deal with China at diplomatic level, it is not wrong. But, the liberal democrats have a way of yielding to Communist influence. One thing is clear. India should be ready to defend itself against Chinese agression in every field, not just security, on its own. It can expect little help from any quarter.
There is no point going on badmouthing Biden as if Trump was a model. Trump damaged the US, he nearly destroyed US democracy, but he has been driven out.
Biden realises he has rebuild the democratic values in the US before he can demand the same from China.
India could have been part of a democratic alternative against China, but when the Indian govt. acts like it wants India to be like Mynamar, the US and the west would feel doubtful about propping up India.
China poses an external problem. India is seen as a tinderbox that will implode, and which will create a refugee problem. Internal problems become external.
If India is such a great power as Modi supporters imagine, take on China by itself and show Biden what to do.
Its always a pleasure to read Ms Kartha’s views….i hope she writes more often..
Yes the longer telegram is very brave in its views..and it holds true.
But india will ignore it..as “we” seem to have a soft corner for Xi…and are foccussed on attaing some sort of moral high ground(where china is concerned)..while the “actual ground” keeps slipping under us.
There is a saying…Pakistan can never be india’s friend…china is nobody’s friend…and the US is everybodys Frenemy…
Obama had a policy to “Lead from behind”…and biden keeps harping “america’s back”…back to where..with..and from?…
Is everybody’s guessing game..i think even biden does’nt know that…
If the trump era was more of unpredictability..the biden admin will be more of voids…
More of words… low on deeds….bluster with opposite actions
Expecting anything substantial from the biden admin..is pointless.
What we need to understand here is …trump was anti establishment …a disrupter …he had no qualms in going against the deep state…or crashing into the “beltway”…whereas biden is “their” man.. so is his soulmate blinken…
China for a fact has embedded itself very deeply into the very fabric of american society…its elites..its institutions….its politicians…etc…making it all the more difficult for biden.
We will have to be very careful and keep a close watch on all our sides.
Serious question : Should the world wish for the United States and China to find the path to peaceful coexistence, which includes a lot of trade and investment flows between the planet’s two largest economies, or egg them on to conflict. Remind them helpfully of the 2,500 year old Thucydides trap. It seems to me that any country which hopes to gain from a dangerous policy of containment of China, including splitting of the naturally unified tech domain, needs to revisit the basic soundness and sustainability of its foreign policy. Especially if it shares a largely undefined 3,500 kilometre long land boundary and has allowed, by not realising its own economic potential fully, an almost 6 : 1 asymmetry to develop.
As a young boy, I thought South Africa will remain a white supremist state and blacks will remain a slave. Apartheid came and it slowly rammed home the message that no government can survive with the whole world against them. And so, it was the case in Rhodesia earlier. A Global cooperation against the Chinese will be far effective to remove their humongous human right violations. Smaller countries guilty of the same crime will get the message from Economic deprivation. India will get its share of the jai shri Ram message economically.
I am under the impression that we live on the same planet and one world. It is amazing to listen to these amazing stories about containment and preventing countries from doing one thing or the other. Are we slave traders or opium traders and so on. there is only one power in the world and all others better fall in line? like the British Empire and many others before it?
There is no wishing away of China. It looms large on the horizon of most countries, not just its immediate neighbours. So if Biden wants to deal with China at diplomatic level, it is not wrong. But, the liberal democrats have a way of yielding to Communist influence. One thing is clear. India should be ready to defend itself against Chinese agression in every field, not just security, on its own. It can expect little help from any quarter.
There is no point going on badmouthing Biden as if Trump was a model. Trump damaged the US, he nearly destroyed US democracy, but he has been driven out.
Biden realises he has rebuild the democratic values in the US before he can demand the same from China.
India could have been part of a democratic alternative against China, but when the Indian govt. acts like it wants India to be like Mynamar, the US and the west would feel doubtful about propping up India.
China poses an external problem. India is seen as a tinderbox that will implode, and which will create a refugee problem. Internal problems become external.
If India is such a great power as Modi supporters imagine, take on China by itself and show Biden what to do.
Its always a pleasure to read Ms Kartha’s views….i hope she writes more often..
Yes the longer telegram is very brave in its views..and it holds true.
But india will ignore it..as “we” seem to have a soft corner for Xi…and are foccussed on attaing some sort of moral high ground(where china is concerned)..while the “actual ground” keeps slipping under us.
There is a saying…Pakistan can never be india’s friend…china is nobody’s friend…and the US is everybodys Frenemy…
Obama had a policy to “Lead from behind”…and biden keeps harping “america’s back”…back to where..with..and from?…
Is everybody’s guessing game..i think even biden does’nt know that…
If the trump era was more of unpredictability..the biden admin will be more of voids…
More of words… low on deeds….bluster with opposite actions
Expecting anything substantial from the biden admin..is pointless.
What we need to understand here is …trump was anti establishment …a disrupter …he had no qualms in going against the deep state…or crashing into the “beltway”…whereas biden is “their” man.. so is his soulmate blinken…
China for a fact has embedded itself very deeply into the very fabric of american society…its elites..its institutions….its politicians…etc…making it all the more difficult for biden.
We will have to be very careful and keep a close watch on all our sides.
Serious question : Should the world wish for the United States and China to find the path to peaceful coexistence, which includes a lot of trade and investment flows between the planet’s two largest economies, or egg them on to conflict. Remind them helpfully of the 2,500 year old Thucydides trap. It seems to me that any country which hopes to gain from a dangerous policy of containment of China, including splitting of the naturally unified tech domain, needs to revisit the basic soundness and sustainability of its foreign policy. Especially if it shares a largely undefined 3,500 kilometre long land boundary and has allowed, by not realising its own economic potential fully, an almost 6 : 1 asymmetry to develop.
As a young boy, I thought South Africa will remain a white supremist state and blacks will remain a slave. Apartheid came and it slowly rammed home the message that no government can survive with the whole world against them. And so, it was the case in Rhodesia earlier. A Global cooperation against the Chinese will be far effective to remove their humongous human right violations. Smaller countries guilty of the same crime will get the message from Economic deprivation. India will get its share of the jai shri Ram message economically.