Comments on: US and China’s anxieties

By: Sandip

Sandip — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:00:01 +0000

How do you expect that to happen? Well the issue is we south asians are so backward in there thinking especially when it comes to religion. People with money has moved on from religion but poor people from our region hold on to religion (Which is more then 2/3rd of the word). What a sad state of humanity, where religion and not common sense rules.

By: raika45

raika45 — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:09:03 +0000

What about China claiming the South China Sea and all in it as it’s own at the expense of the ASEAN countries that have a legal claim to it?Who do they turn to if not America?I had written an earlier comment regarding this but was not allowed by the moderators with China being an all weather friend of Pakistan. Would not look good condemning China. With China now holding out a hand of friendship to India after the ASEAN countries came to India for talks, your fair weather friend like the weather can change as far as you are concerned.For China it is business first.

By: abbastoronto

abbastoronto — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:17:43 +0000

China believes in the myth of the Middle Kingdom – aloof, superior, civilized.

India follows its own, self-centred.

The remaining world follows the Abrahamic myths.

Only the latest have a well developed myth of world hegemony – Abraham’s progeny ruling the earth.

Three Abrahamic versions were founded by a shepherd, an artisan in Fertile Crescent, a businessman trader for their different times. In the distant past in the pastoral age it was the yehud who held sway. Then later in the agrarian times the Christians. Now with Globalization and Free Trade it will be the Muslims.

So it shall be. It is written.

By: Cyrus Howell

Cyrus Howell — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:39:55 +0000

The US will never go to war against China. That is pure speculation. Both are on the UN Security Council. Both have strong economic ties with each other.
The matter was decided in 1950 that the US would not invade China. It is all just sword rattling.
Much ado about nothing.

By: Talat Ali Hamdany

Talat Ali Hamdany — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:38:26 +0000

The Americans always exaggerate a situation without really analysing the situation threadbare. Iraq and Afghanistan come to mind as does Viet Nam of yore. They are now so used to interfering in other countries affairs such as sending Qadri into Pakistan to get some leverage, that now they can’t seem to see the world any different. It was a tragedy that the then USSR dropped out as a super power leaving the stage of the world to the Americans. Now 20 years on its a bit difficult to share the world with anyone. Of course no one is going to take on China physically.