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Shyam Saran, Quartz: A truth-bomb for Beijing: Neither Asia nor the world revolves around China
India is in a prolonged standoff with Chinese forces on the Doklam plateau. China may have been caught off guard after Indian armed forces confronted a Chinese road-building team in the Bhutanese territory.
Peaceful resolution requires awareness of the context for the unfolding events. China has engaged in incremental nibbling advances in this area with Bhutanese protests followed by solemn commitments not to disturb the status quo. The intrusions continued. This time, the Chinese signaled intention to establish a permanent presence, expecting the Bhutanese to acquiesce while underestimating India’s response.
Managing the China challenge requires understanding the history of Chinese civilization and the world view of its people formed over 5,000 years of tumultuous history. Caution is required before mechanistically applying historical patterns to the present as these are overlaid with concepts borrowed from other traditions and behavior patterns arising from deep transformations within China and the world at large.
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WNU Editor: I like this commentary because I have been saying the same thing to my Chinese friends since the mid-1980s .... the problem is that the Chinese are not listening.
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True. The center of the universe is Pres. Trump.
Support him in his time of need, MAGA.
China calls itself "The Middle Kingdom"
I've been called a few names in jest taken from Chinese culture in how they perceive others.
One is foreign devil.
The other is a monkey.
... and names that the liberals & Left like to throw around.
https://www.google.ca/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4741318/amp/Trump-s-firing-Priebus-sent-Twitter-meme-frenzy.html
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/853583417916755968?lang=en
I do have several Chinese, as well as other Asian friends. And I have to say, the Chinese - even more so than Americans - do believe that this century is rightfully theirs. They have no doubt about that it's time for China.. they feel last century should already have belonged to them... and I can understand where they are coming from. But I also understand that with this level of hubris, you don't make many friends.. and that's what's happening.. the Indians don't like their neighbor (and Indian's famously have their own level of hubris).. so now China is surrounded to the east, west, and south by neighbours like Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, etc. and none of them like what's happening..
We all know that there will be war with China in this century.. question is a) how big will the war be, and b) who will be involved?
If China is smart, it will avoid war in the next decade, and later on have it with a smaller country like Vietnam that only has loose international support. But it needs to be a quick, very bloody war..
If the US is smart, it will have a war on the Korean peninsular this decade and use its influence from thereon to further encircle China, to make it think twice about any moves further down the road..
Dear Mr Smith
You are no slacker when it comes to calling names. The first comment I posted at this site got you dishing out childish mames, nonstop, even when I had not posted a comment. Truman: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, ie., stop calling names and perhaps you will not be called names.
- The Chinese when the they were replacing the iron shackles of communism with the iron fist encased in a velvet gloved called all foreigners, foreign devils.
- You are an extreme Leftwing ARCHliberal. When I call you racist I am not using a cussword, but I am applying the word using techniques that our esteemed and august former Attorney General Eric Holder used. That is disparate impact.
I can make the statement that you are a racist, since I have been to your website and seen it for myself. Using the current popular cultural rules, what I say is true. Now you wouldn't say Eric Holder is wrong and he is full of it, because that would make you racist.
I feel good about calling you a racist seeing how much of an arch-liberal you are. that and you and Jay are 2 peas in a pod and he uses the term Murrikans (when he is not using sexist bigot homophobe). He might as well use every cussword in the book, when he used that term. It would be like calling a present day German born in 1980 who votes Green Party religiously and is into hiphop, a NAZI.
You and Jay march lockstep when it comes to Democrat versus Republican.
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