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Starting with the rise & fall of USSR #CCP has studied everything related to rise & fall of great powers , to ensure "rise & rise" of China. ("History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes")
2/ccp But no history book suggests š, nor does it rhyme with history of European powers š§
3/ccp For those of us threatened by aggression (India, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam) its not a Geoeconomic game, its about war and peace, of choice between blood & sweat (Defence budgets) and appeasement
Words like, #containment & #constrainment, are useful for academic discussion, but don't constitute a #Strategy. Th objective of China strategy is, or must be, to Deter China's Imperialism on its land & sea borders. This doesn't exclude talking to it abt climate change or Covid19
2/fp #Deterring China, requires (besides economic & defence reform), bilateral & plurilateral, security, diplomatic & economic coalitions(with US, France, UK, Japan & Australia, EU etc.) Test is to #Deter China from attacking us again & again! https://t.co/j9stU19NfU
For the #Omniscient, #Omnipotent, # Omnipresent, "Emperor of the Middle Kingdom" with a "mandate from heaven", thirty years is not enough time to even put down on a map the actual ground positions of the two countries troops in 1 of 3 disputed sectors (namely the middle sector)?
2/ccp https://t.co/IVHJ82CrnC
3/ccp #PLUs We wake up every morning and look at the mirror and see India and the World, a bunch of immoral, aggressive, neo-imperialist bully's like US: We hate these jokers who think they can stand up to us: https://t.co/eYvqnEUHQ0
As the old miner said to his donkey:" All the world's crazy except me and thee and sometimes I wonder even about thee"
2/cuckoo https://t.co/ajO9tnVUm7
3/cuckoo https://t.co/CRUpcS5Nif
2/ladakh https://t.co/9wFHjyX3N9
3/ladakh https://t.co/dcUGJAdurg
3/fp https://t.co/faU8HfbTii
