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The key to understanding China’s global ambitions is to understand Xi. He is God in Communist China.
On March 8, 1983, American president Ronald Reagan named the Soviet Union the Evil Empire. He said that the Soviets “must be made to understand we will never compromise our principles and standards [nor] ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.” The USSR crumbled under the weight of maintaining its vast military machine and a flailing economy.
Now, there is a new Evil Empire on earth. Its name is the People’s Republic of China. The Communist Party of China (CPC) under Xi Jinping has launched a plan to dominate the world. To test the waters, the world’s only Communist empire deliberately or by error unleashed a powerful bioweapon on an unsuspecting world last year the novel coronavirus.
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Last Updated: May 23, 2021, 07:19 AM IST
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Beijing has long forgotten the content of the agreement and in the process, India has lost a peaceful frontier.
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Today, China will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the “peaceful liberation of Tibet”. On May 23, 1951, a 17-point agreement was signed between Lhasa and Beijing. Though the Tibetans claimed that it was forced upon them “under duress”, the date marked the end of Tibet as an independent nation.
Twenty years earlier, in 1931, before his departure to what the Tibetans poetically call the “heavenly fields”, the 13th Dalai Lama wrote a long testament giving religious and practical advice to his countrymen: “Maintain friendly relations with the two great powers, China and India; conscript able soldiers to guard the borders… These precautions should be taken at a time when the forces of degeneration are most prevale
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on March 7, 2021 that the right and wrongs of what happened in the border area last year are clear, so are the stakes involved. He added, “It again proves initiating confrontation will not solve the problem. Returning to peaceful negotiation is the right way forward.
“China and India are each other s friends and partners and not threats and rivals. Both need to help each other succeed instead of undercutting each other we should intensify cooperation instead of harboring suspicion over each other,” he further added.
Incredibly, while the 16-hour long 10th Corps Commander-level India-China talks held at Moldo on February 20 were inconclusive, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated at an election rally in Tamil Nadu on February 21, “After nine rounds of military and diplomatic dialogue, the disengagement process is complete.”