Not too much aught be made of the Pigking predators' playing to New Delhi's every-bit-as-corrupt.
Not to in any way underestimate the danger of the Peking pack's psychopathological hesperophobia and the Indians' inability to, so-far, get over their almost-as-organic post-colonial cringe and collectivized chip-on-the-shoulder -- when it comes down to it -- the Euro-peons' Neo-Soviet being doomed to follow its Moscow model into History's landfill -- ours is the only worthwhile FRee Market on Earth -- and the Indians are much too intelligent and endowed with an underlying common sense scrap their burgeoning relationship with America to seriosly ally with Peking's rapacious colonializers. [Two point five million square miles of other peoples' lands, states, nations and territories colonized and enslaved -- and counting!]
To boot, the Chinese have an expression to the effect that if you are carrying a stick while walking through long grass and come across an Indian and a snake you should hit the Indian and risk the snake.
Although -- come to that -- so do the [Almost-as-duplicitous] British.
[And the Singaporeans and the Malaysians [Awas! Ular di dallum rumput!] and the Thais and the Burmese and the Ceylonese and the Ugandans and the Kenyans and the South Africans and the ......................... (Fill in the blank!)]
Obsession with the lunatic left's projected desire that America at some future date be overwhelmed by meaningless alliances among various of the world's squallidly socialistic states may be the stuff of polemics posing as novels -- but hardly becomes this forum and/or its ideals!
Blessings -- B A
Perhaps I took you all wrong, so if I did, I apologize in advance.
But...Projected desire? Left? This is an actual annoucement of a strategic pact and while I admit that it is in its infant state, and I pray that it does not develop into any thing more sinister...it does not bode well for our own interests. The two countries have already (last month) announced the intention to create their own free trade area, the largest in the world. What that means of course at this point comes down to the handling of their cheap labor which (unfortunately) is very wrapped up in our own economy. IMHO, we should be doing all in our power to get closer to India IMHO, but in order to do that we are going to have to show them that we are not fickle, that there is a ntaional will and commitment to it that spans administrations.
As it is, China is moving as rapidly as possible to shore up and develop its own large Asian (and world-wide) sphere of influence, economic, militarily, and political...all areas where they will conflict with our own interests IMHO...and they apparently are making some ground. Talking about that becomes this forum very much.
Fregards.