Generational Dynamics World View

[Cynic Hero '86]

(08-04-2017, 10:45 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: On Wednesday, China's Foreign Ministry issued a 15-page document
entitled: "The Facts and China’s Position Concerning the Indian Border
Troops’ Crossing of the China-India Boundary in the Sikkim Sector into
the Chinese Territory."

It goes into detail about an agreement called the "1890 Convention
Between Great Britain and China Relating to Sikkim and Tibet" to
provide proof that the Doklam Plateau really belongs to China, rather
than Bhutan.  However, that was a colonial-era agreement between Great
Britain and China.  Bhutan was not a party to that agreement.

So a treaty signed by two great powers should be disregarded just to make a weak buffer state happy. Countries like old imperial Britain, China and India make history. Countries like Bhutan and Czechoslovakia do not and never have driven historical forces. The fight Between China and India would be for supremacy in south and southeast Asia, not about the integrity of Bhutan whom neither country seriously cares about. Boomer globalists in the west blooming with Utopian fantasies seek the nonsensical idea of small countries having the same rights as great powers. When are boomers going to accept reality and reorient western foreign policy around relations with and between great powers and rival great powers instead of the nonsense of trying to have the west be a global guarantor for small countries. Regarding India's defense the Indians have been building up their defenses since 1962, also India's treaties are with Russia not with the west. So this is not a significant issue for either the US or Europe.