06-10-2020, 08:18 PM
** 09-Jun-2020 World View: Ladakh border conflict - India vs China
I think you're absolutely right to raise the alarm on this issue. I
wrote briefly about it a few weeks ago when you previously raised the
issue.
*** 25-May-2020 World View: India-China border conflict in Ladakh
*** http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=52293#p52293
What's remarkable about this situation is its similarity to the Marco
Polo Bridge incident that triggered World War II. In particular, both
the Indian and Chinese populations are in highly nationalistic and
xenophobic moods, and this is the kind of mood that leads to a "shoot
first, look later" situation. All it would take is one gunshot to
trigger an escalation situation.
A lot of people might say, "Why would they do that?" People get
confused and think that things are the same as in the 1990s, when
everyone was in the mood to compromise. Today, compromise is rare.
If there are Chinese and Indian forces facing each other across this
border, then a lit match could spread a fire rapidly.
utahbob Wrote:> I don’t want to sound like a have roll of tin foil on my head, but
> when I see articles like this in the open press, my spider sense
> starts up. With America distracted with its bread and circus games
> and Wuhan virus, two nuclear armed, former empires with different
> degrees of xenophobia start sparring then shifting units around in
> the open media, I get alarmed. China’s economy is tanking, civil
> unrest rising, imprisoning whole swaths of the population based on
> religious or ethnic background, what is a better way to rally the
> support of the population than break out the foreign bogeyman.
> War have started over less silly shit:
> https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military...ear-border
I think you're absolutely right to raise the alarm on this issue. I
wrote briefly about it a few weeks ago when you previously raised the
issue.
*** 25-May-2020 World View: India-China border conflict in Ladakh
*** http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=52293#p52293
What's remarkable about this situation is its similarity to the Marco
Polo Bridge incident that triggered World War II. In particular, both
the Indian and Chinese populations are in highly nationalistic and
xenophobic moods, and this is the kind of mood that leads to a "shoot
first, look later" situation. All it would take is one gunshot to
trigger an escalation situation.
A lot of people might say, "Why would they do that?" People get
confused and think that things are the same as in the 1990s, when
everyone was in the mood to compromise. Today, compromise is rare.
If there are Chinese and Indian forces facing each other across this
border, then a lit match could spread a fire rapidly.
