Will a war erupt between China and India? Why are the world’s two most populous nuclear powers at loggerheads?
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Do not take lightly the conflict transpiring on the Himalayan border between China and India, Asia’s nuclear powers that are the world’s most populous nations. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in the latest clash in the Ladakh region of India and the strategic Galwan Valley on Tibet’s border. Some sources claim that 42 Chinese soldiers also preished. There had been no disputes on the 3,500-kilometer border between the two countries since 1975, and nobody had died.
China’s rise, India’s equalizer role. Why now?
If we perceive the problem as border conflict alone, it would not be worth our time. Negotiations would begin. Tensions would be alleviated. Border conflicts are common. However, if we take into consideration China’s rise, its desire to become a global leader, India’s prominence as a “pro-West” equalizing power, the fact that the two nations are the world’s most populated countries, that they are centers of gravity, and cannot be provoked by a border conflict, we need to evaluate the other side of the coin. The region is also concerned with Kashmir, which is partially held by both India and Pakistan. Kashmir is an area that has led to great wars between India and Pakistan. The military partnerships and deals between China and India in recent years and the military partnerships between India, the U.S. and Israel should be taken into consideration.
World’s most terrifying geopolitical war zone. Dozens of countries in danger
The world’s most terrifying geopolitical conflict is currently transpiring in the region spanning the Pacific and Indian Ocean, which encompasses dozens of countries from the Koreas to Australia. This showdown is between the U.S., Europe, and China. In other words, it is between the West and the East. Besides India and Pakistan, this showdown also includes South and North Korea, Japan, The Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, and Indonesia. All of these countries are going to have to pick a side in the power struggle between the East and the West, in the U.S. and Europe’s plans to siege China, in the power struggles in the Pacific/Southeast Asia. It appears that there is no third option. Western political mind pushing India on the ground against China
India is one of the leading countries of the U.S./Western alliance in Asia. It is one of the countries limiting China in Japan, South Korea, and Australia.
Pakistan and Indonesia, which had taken place in the Western alliance during the Cold War era and the period following it, are seeking to escape U.S. influence. They are getting closer to the new power rise in Asia and establishing military and economic partnerships with it.
The Western political mind is egging India against China on the battlefield. It is supporting it militarily, economically, and technologically. It is clear that China is not going to want to exacerbate the conflict with India at such a time. However, India will escalate the crisis. This is how it has been defined.
South Asia, the Pacific region will explode: The Atlantic axis, in other words the U.S. and Europe, have infinitely lost the power to control the global order. The indisputable privilege they had for centuries no longer exists. This is perhaps the first time in the last four centuries that non-Western powers are forming (have formed) to challenge the West’s sovereignty.