Geopolitical Realities

Honey, I don't call thee baby anymore because thou once said thou didn't like it. You were no baby of anybody, you snarled. You obviously missed the point. You need to go back to school and learn some English. While you are there, enroll in a course of communication with an emphasis on semantics. But I am digressing. What I am trying to tell you today is not a lecture on terms of endearment, but sone insights into geopolitical realities. China is rising, like Prussia in 18th century and the United States in 19th century. The rise took a long time to come about and will take a long time to come to a stop on its own, unless China's current and potential enemies (India, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, and the U.S.) have the foresight to stop right now this growing menace to world peace due to its vaunting ambition to dominate the world. All the protests about construction of dams in the upper reaches of the Mekong River and the military assertions in the South China Sea don't mean diddley squat to China because China only understands one language: the language of force, including military opposition. Forget the trade benefits with China. China gets more out of it than those countries mentioned above. China must be contained and reduced in strength. It is another Prussia in the making. We must learn from the past. The world didn't take seriously the rise of the militaristic Prussia and thus had to pay for its lack of vigilance in the costs of WW I and WW II. Japan got cocky after defeating Russia in 1905. Forty years later, it had two atomic bombs dropped on its soil, a very fitting karma for its own crimes against humanity in China and elsewhere. China has been on a rise for 30 years now. Whether its cocky and irresponsible behavior will have no opposition or the world has learned to put out tbe fire right away before it becomes a conflagration remains to be seen. Meanwhile I plan to be around to see how this drama called the rise of China plays out. I earlier had an exit ticket from this world, but I just cancelled it and asked for a refund. "God" has not sent me a reimbursement yet. For an omnipotent guy, he is really slow.

Guess what? Just saw the news that there is a traffic jam in China which is going on for 10 days. Traffic backs up for 60 miles. Mind-boggling. I don't know it is a good sign or not this phenomenon called China.