Thursday, September 27, 2012
China's Insatiable Appetite For Land
China is hungry AGAIN. Don't make the mistake to assume its just the Senkaku Islands dispute with Japan. In May China reasserted its claim on the entire Philippines ! Taiwan is all but gone following the strategy of a boa constrictor that we saw be successful in gobbling Hong Kong, Macao and Nepal. China claims not just the Senkaku Islands, but Okinawa and in fact all of Japan and her territories as well ! Really it is challenging to find any existing border of China where she cedes a territory or sovereign nation on the other side of it . In some cases China's claims actually run right through a country to and through the neighbor to said neighbor's neighbor.
It is relevant to understand China's culture, history, education and strategies. In a nutshell this is where the Western mentality and culture fails to recognize the complex nature and patience of the Eastern mentality. The West would not be paranoid to assume that the strategy is layered with more intrigue, twists and turns than an intricate spy novel. China you will learn has her own set of rules and while it may seem like she is playing by Western accepted UN rules, in actuality she is not, and never will be. One small example would be the protests we are seeing being reported from China. Suddenly after the news black outs four years ago during the Beijing Olympics (or anything else anti China), we see the Chinese government orchestrate demonstrations.We also see China providing free infrastructure all over Africa, seems a bit out of character doesn't it ? China never has been a benevolent giver, unless there is an objective, so forewarned is forearmed.
Throughout history China has never been a democracy, the wishes of the population of any given region or country they take over are minimized. The strategy here, as we have seen historically is that China is willing to wait, they have unlimited patience, you might ask why wait? Because it is the path of least resistance, and through educational controls China always introduces, the newly educated generation is more receptive to China. Yep, basically it is indoctrination, for when you control education, and the media, you influence and control the population. Nepal, Tibet are firmly in China's tentacles and if you don't think China is licking its chops at most of Northern India along its expanded borders I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. I do not see China returning the Shaksgam Valley anytime soon either. Obviously with the many territories of India (China claims), natural resources in the Himalayas are really what they are after. The sources of the rivers, the minerals are the prize, not the peoples, just as it is fishing and natural gas in the Senkaku Islands. This is a fundamental difference between India and the West verses the East( China), people in the East(China) are an expendable instrument, in the West and India they are cherished.
China is using her newly acquired economic muscle to silence the usual champions of human rights, because the greedy bastards are still playing the game for their own gluttonous generation. When they begin to learn that China makes her own rules and moves laboriously in her own time, then she might begin to be accountable by Western rules, but not before. Other regions in the insatiable beast's sights are,(India): Jammu and Kashmir; Arunachal Pradesh; Demchok, Chumar, Kaurik, Shipki Pass, Jadh, and Lapthal; Kalapani region, the smaller Susta River dispute and the smaller still Antudanda and Nawalparasi disputes;Shaksgam Valley;Trans-Karakoram Tract Other area include: Tumen River (Korea); Spratly Islands; Scarborough Shoal (Philippines); Paracel Islands (Vietnam); Okinotorishima (Japan); Macclesfield Bank (Vietnam); Kula Kangri and mountainous areas to the west of this peak, plus the western Haa District of Bhutan; Leodo Island/Suyan Rock (aka Socotra Rock, Korea); Bhutanese enclaves in Tibet, namely Cherkip Gompa, Dho, Dungmar, Gesur, Gezon, Itse Gompa, Khochar, Nyanri, Ringung, Sanmar, Tarchen and Zuthulphuk (Bhutan); Eastern part of Bhutan; Mainland China, Hainan, and other islands controlled by the PRC; Heixiazi / Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Russia); Kachin State (Myanmar); 106.40 square kilometers in Kazakhstan; Kutuzov Island (Russia); Outer Mongolia ( Mongolia) ; Part of the Rasŏn administrative division (North Korea); Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River (Russia);
Taiwan,Penghu.Jinmen,Matsu Islands, Pratas Islands (Taiwan); Tuva (Russia); Songling District and Jiagedaqi District (Inner Mongloia). Having listed these KNOWN claims, remember these are Western rules and logically when applying "China rules" this could be and most likely is much larger and ambitious.
Labels: Burma, China, China's borders, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Nepal, Taiwan, Tibet
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