07-17-2017, 10:43 PM
(07-17-2017, 10:35 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:I'm assuming you mean't India being just as nationalistic as china in that first sentence. Given what you just said if china wants to avoid war with India or even Japan and Vietnam in the immediate time frame; why would they challenge the US instead? Everyone knows that the US is stronger than both India and Russia? Why would that be deemed by Chinese leaders as a less risky option?(07-17-2017, 10:10 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: > Except that India as we speak is directly challenging chinese
> border claim yet if china is so aggressive as you claim; why
> hasn't their been any meaningful chinese response to India
> standing up directly against china. Curious reaction for an
> aggressive-militaristic power. Why hasn't china attacked India yet
> given the current standoff there if the world alliances are what
> you claim them to be?
Because China is just as nationalistic and xenophobic as China is at
this time, and a military attack on Bhutan's Doklam region would
trigger full-scale war between China and India, reviving their war
from the 1960s. Such a war would spread to Pakistan, and bring Russia
or the US in on the side of India, and China isn't ready for that.
