Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Gravitas US Edition: How does India see the rise of AUKUS?" video.

  1. I don't necessarily agree with this analysis. The Jinping dictatorship is desperate and dangerous; it blames the West for all it's faults, historical or otherwise. The CCP created museums of hate against the Opium Wars, which were waged over a hundred and sixty years ago. In other words, it takes a revanchist, not rational view of the present times. Furthermore, it launches hostile actions against several countries simultaneously; how does that make any geopolitical sense? You draw your attention to one adversary at a time surely, or you disperse your forces which is highly risky. China is large and quite powerful but it does not have any allies to do the fighting for it's interests elsewhere (unless you count the Taliban as allies; a poor choice). As you take unilateral hostile actions (as China does), countries can counter very effectively against you without allies. As China goes backwards at home with this particularly aggressive idiologically driven socialist government, it becomes more desparate and dangerous abroad. The revanchist reunion of Taiwan by force by the PLA is now a definite possibility in the not so distant future. Despite the doubters about the United States commitment to Asia (as it's disasterous withdrawal from Afghanistan seemed to demonstrate), it takes particular hubris to believe that the US will abandon Taiwan to a military takeover by force by the PLA; far too many political and economic issues are are stake in abandoning the fate of Taiwan, which was simply not there with Afghanistan. In other words, Afghanistan was too damaged (from four decades of war) to repair. Hence, you cannot compare apples with oranges, which is what the doubters lump-together foolishly.
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