CHINA: Military Alliance With India in the Works

strategypage.com ^ | May 13, 2003 | Q & D Headlines

[Destro]

CHINA: Military Alliance With India in the Works

May 13, 2003: Chinese and Indian military officials are working out details for closer cooperation between the two countries. Despite a long term border dispute (high in unpopulated mountains), the two countries have much in common. Moslem Pakistan is chaotic and backward looking, while India is not. Although China has long been allies with Pakistan, Indian is seen as a better match. Between them, the two nations possess a third of the planet's population. Military cooperation, and the growing size of each nation's navy, would give the two effective control of sea areas from the African coast to Japan.

[Destro]

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[Travis McGee]

Ping.

[sackofcatfood]

If China goes with India, Pakistan is screwed.

[DakotaGator]

This is very bad.

India was the best counter the West had to China's new expansion.

Make no mistake, China is our most serious enemy.

[maui_hawaii]

The clear winner in all of this is India. I don't think this is of much concern myself primarily because China is trying to thwart the US' moves with this idea.

[SauronOfMordor]

If China and India are allies, and their people are embedded into the IT depts of every large US company, the US is not in good shape either.

The intense problem with H1B's and outsourcing, is what happens when the country of primary loyalty of the people doing sensitive work, and with access to sensitive data, suddenly turns hostile to the US? You find yourself with an impossible security problem.

[Destro]

The clear winner is Russia which is a pivot for China and India.

Russian alliance with Iran + India + China and dare I say the EU?

Our State Dept plays checkers while Russia plays chess.

Great Game check mate?

[AM2000]

your thoughts?

[SauronOfMordor]

ping - what happens when our engineering and IT depts are manned by citizens of a power that suddenly turns hostile to US

[Pearls Before Swine]

Not bloody likely. The Indians fear the Chinese. They wouldn't place much faith in a strategic alliance, even if they went along with the pretence of one to buy some time of peace and for commercial reasons.

[Destro]

The fear the Indians had of China is not as strong as it used to be.

We were once deadly afraid of Red China but we made alliances with them during the Cold War didn't we?

[MrNatural]

..CHINA: Military Alliance With India in the Works...

STRATEGYPAGE.COM: Foreign Affairs Reporting in the Septic Tank ...

[Destro]

Kill the messenger!

[Tokhtamish]

Only North Korea seems to have any interest in being the ally of backwards, unstable Pakistan.

China has very intelligently decided that their interests are not served by backing losers. Besides, aside from China's support for Pakistan there is no real substantive quarrel between India and Pakistan.

[Destro]

China's support for Pakistan there is no real substantive quarrel between India and Pakistan. - did you mean China instead of Pakistan?

[Steel Wolf]

India could team up with China, who is teamed up with Russia and North Korea, who have ties to Middle Eastern governments, who have ties to Al Qaida, who has ties to various 'charities' in the U.S., who have contacts all throughout the U.S., and could KILL US ALL! Run for the hills! Oh, the humanity. < / DEBKA >

Zzzzz ... ZzZzzzz... Zzz..

Or mabye it was just all a silly dream. There's been talk of more team ups than a Marvel comic strip, and it has come to nothing. The Chinese/Russian alliance ground to an unceremonious halt, and the last two Axis of Evil members all pulling the old 'Duck Season' / 'Rabbit Season' routine with each other (with the shotgun wielding G.W. Fudd ready to blast either one).

Even the ugliness of the Axis of Weasls is only fur deep; Germany is slowly fallng out of orbit, and Russia could back out whenever the price becomes right.

To get wobbly in the knees because China and India are allegedly becoming 'allies' is foolish. They have little reason to do so, and very clear reasons to distrust each other. Bush divides and conquers better alliances than that one before breakfast.

[MrNatural]

Oops; didn't mean to seem to zing you, Destro. These really are interesting posts; kind of off the wall,
considering the state of affairs between China and India, but it's no harm done to hear from all points.

But I still don't think strategypage.com is enhancing their reputation of foreign affairs with a report like this.

[UnBlinkingEye]

ping - what happens when our engineering and IT depts are manned by citizens of a power that suddenly turns hostile to US

What happens when our corrupt elected officials turn hostile to American workers?

H-1B, L1, no tarriffs on outsourced work or products and corporate guidance of our 'representatives.'

[Tokhtamish]

Yes, you're right. Typo on my part.

This makes perfect rational sense. The earlier points about globalist US corporations ravaging American high tech to build up the technological base of India and China is geopolitical idiocy of the highest order.

[MrNatural]

Maybe after reading Maureen Dowd's latest, strategypage figured the Apocalypse was upon us: if she was going soft on W, anything could happen...