I wouldn’t go that far. The biggest existential threats the Indian state faces are Pakistan and the Maoists and neither are powerful enough to warrant concerns for resolution.

The real problem with the “India competing for second” theory is that our technological base is not close enough to be good for that. Investment in critical public services like education and healthcare is really low and prospects aren’t improving. India has never even pretended to compete with the US for anything. A significant part of our economy is selling services and low value added goods to the US which is very important for the Indian bourgeoisie.

The top comment there is a good reading of the situation. Trump’s twitter post is probably pure PR and is not indicative of his interpretation. He is just posting shit that makes him look good.

I wonder how China see this going in the long haul. India’s foreign policy is not driven by any long term goals but by pure opportunism. Not many years ago India glibly joined an imperialist bloc that solely existed to encircle China which imploded because one imperialist in it fleeced another.

I think China will somewhat welcome this change but remain cautious. I cannot imagine them making any long term commitments because a core feature of multi-party liberal democracy is to turn entire nations into headless chickens. Chian must realise that this could fall apart in even a few months from now if US temporarily switches out the stick for the carrot.

The talking point that China is scheming to take over the world has even been satirised in South Park but I guess doing a proper study on it won’t hurt.

It’s just tha generational regret of not being able to team up with the Nazis against the SR.

They seem to be operating under the assumption that tariffs are free money cheat codes. If you put 10% tariffs then the other party is just going to pay you 10% more. Quick maffs.

Does he say who or what torpedoed it?

The Russians are geopolitical realists of the highest order.

Good luck trying to convince Euroamerican genocide enjoyers that there is even a kernel of truth to this statement after years of non-stop barrage of racist fearmongering.

The unthinkable: think

Mainstream press acts like China is some shady dubious entity meanwhile it is just a loop of:

• draft an explicitly laid out five year plan
• meet the goals set in said plan

I have been saying since day one Americans and their European dogs have a lot of gall concern trolling for Muslims while they have laid waste to Muslim countries from Central Asia to North Africa, all the while rendering Pakistan a thrall military dictatorship and the Rohingya stateless. Unfortunately the concept of irony is completely lost on Westerns. Lemmerals are still aghast about a genocide that did not happen, whose one casualty they cannot name. All they have charts about birth rates like Xi was shooting sperm cells with laser beams.

Neither do I think it’s signs of the West wanting conflict with China, I think it’s the opposite, a deterrence for China

You are underestimating the gravity of the implications of American military buildup around Taiwan. It would be kinda like if China started building bases and sending carriers around Hawaii to prevent an American invasion.

Mearsheimer is good in that he is a prominent figure who deviates heavily from Western orthodoxy but he still feels weird. His great powers theory feels like a knock-off of materialism with quirks so that he can claim he came up with it.

I think a war is not in question but the issue of a proxy war still stands. Thankfully US is nowhere near as entrenched around China as it was in Ukraine. I don’t see the Taiwan problem escalating in a war. Biggest threat is from China’s borders in central asia but even that is well below critical levels right now.

Thanks a lot. I have copied this to the post body too.

This is such a terrible piece. I am astounded this guy managed to churn out so many words over what is most likely a formality.

Please CW this kind of stuff. Or at least mark it NSFW.

The mass protests make it very difficult to forcefully suppress any democratic process at the moment.

There is no devolution here. That’s what they always were.

I say that China is one of the rare few developing countries in the world. Most of the developed and developing countries change kinda laterally where the atmosphere drifts along with the cultural and technological developments. Like India is still ranked below DPRK in the world hunger index even though hundreds of millions have mobile phones. China is one of the few places where things are holistically getting better even though there is still much work to be done.