07-07-2017, 06:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2017, 06:33 PM by Cynic Hero '86.)
(07-07-2017, 05:58 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(07-07-2017, 05:43 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: > Note However that the world Geopolitical situation was very
> different in 1969 than it is today. Russia was MUCH stronger and
> more threatening to the outside world back then. Note that the
> 1969 crisis was the beginning of a Sino-US alliance that lasted
> until the fall of the USSR in 1991. Nations ally or fight against
> one another over resources and/or to secure geopolitical
> objectives.
In 2003, I was writing my first book on Generational Dynamics, and I
wrote extensive histories of China and Russia, going back centuries.
I didn't say so explicitly at that time, but it was clear to me that
Russia and China were each other's historic enemies and would continue
to be, and that a Russian (Orthodox Christian civilization)
generational crisis war would be against against China (Mongolians)
and Sunni Muslim countries (Islamic civilization), and not against
Europe (Western civilization).
Nothing that's happened in the last 50 years, or even the last 100
years, changes that. In particular, some silly Sino-Russian Pact is
as relevant as a teaspoon of water compared to a tsunami.
Your argument that Russia will be an ally and china an enemy is based solely on the fact that we had an alliance with Russia during WW2 and fought Japan During WW2. And that where it flounders russia has been an enemy ever since the end of WW2 and China would never take up "the fallen standard" left by imperial japan, because the old Japanese empire is regarded in China the much same way that we in the west regard Nazi Germany today. A Chinese admiring for example, Hirohito and Tojo would be like a Jew today admiring hitler. The pan-asianism that became popular in Japan prior to and during WW2 never really caught on in China because it was associated with japanese imperialism and aggression. After the war the Chinese did embrace Maoism but that collapsed in the cultural revolution, that country has been essentially a traditional autocracy since then.
