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Churchill Was Right (Anti-Socialist Speech from 1945)

The Case for Humility in Afghanistan

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[Alamo-Girl]

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[Victoria Delsoul]

For Beijing, a hardline approach to India could backfire and drive India and its other Asian neighbors into stronger opposition to China and deeper alignment with Washington and Tokyo. The pursuit of aggressive foreign adventures would destroy the benign "peaceful rise" image that China is so assiduously striving to achieve. A conflict will cost India dearly in terms of economic developmental objectives and political ambition of emerging as a great power in a multipolar Asia.

Both China and India are nuclear powers, and they are big players in international trade as well.  It would be crazy for China to go to war with India.  India has a very good army and would put up a formidable fight, and God knows how this mess would end.  Though the writer believes that Washington could exert diplomatic pressure on both sides to reach a settlement, I think that the Obama administration is weak and couldn't achieve much in this arena.  So in that regard, I agree with the writer that it is in the benefit of both countries to settle their differences peacefully.