Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "China's Catastrophic Oil u0026 Gas Problem" video.

China's claims are a lot greater than what most of the world is familiar with and what they publicly admit to. In the past, China used to suggest China was a lot bigger and included countries/territories all across Asia like Korea, Ryukyu Islands and former tributary states like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Java and Thailand. These are claims propagated by people like Mao Zedong and published in maps known as "Maps of National Shame" (国耻地图). Maybe an attempt at healing a wounded national identity at the time but some things remain the same.
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Nobody thinks of Nepal having territorial disputes with China but China has encroached into Nepal in the past few years and has built things within Nepalese territory much to the embarrassment of the Nepalese government which does not want to offend China by lodging a diplomatic protest. So you can see how some things never change.
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@kentershackle1329 Singapore will definitely not be happy. The country relies on the Strait of Malacca for its shipping trade and is a country with no natural resources. It would be disastrous for the nation.
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@hillbillyintheasia6122 Yeah I can definitely see the parallels between China's increasing pro-Asian rhetoric and Japan's WW2-era "Asia for the Asians" rhetoric.
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@dr.batman2530 You really think India would ally with the US in a heartbeat? I personally don't think so. At the end of the day, they seem to hold very strong beliefs of non-alignment. I think after the USA's reaction to India's neutrality in the Ukraine War, they know that they will always be on the chopping block if things were to go south between them and the US.
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@psy_inamorato5703 Once India reaches a level of development that jeopardises the US, India will be on the chopping block 24/7 à la Japan in the 1980s and China in the 2010s and 2020s. We've already seen glimpses of that in the past 5 years and especially earlier this year with India's decision to be neutral in the Ukraine War and buy oil from Russia and how upset the US was, even thinking whether to sanction India.
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@dr.batman2530 I read your comment properly and I did not confuse neutrality with pacificism. India is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, its entire foreign policy is rooted in non-alignment since the end of WW2. This is why the country has traditionally remain neutral on many things. There have been cases where it has broken neutrality and paid consequences for it (e.g. Sri Lanka). This is not about pacificism but the fact that is knows its interests are more important than anything else going on around them. This is why they, despite being a democracy, have remained silent on the pro-democracy protests and coup in Myanmar for example. They maintain the same mentality that many other Asian and African countries harbour: neutrality which is why most Asian and African nations are part of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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@dr.batman2530 The truth of the matter is you don't know what India will do. It is that type of country, so unpredictable. Once that country reaches a level of development comparable to China, I know they won't be tiptoeing around with the US anymore. As a political analyst put it, India is only interested in maintaining its own sphere of influence where its interests are unchallenged and China is willing to accept that as long as their interests aren't jeopardised. What the analyst basically said is that China sees an Asia where China and India are the sole regional powers with no US interference.
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Yep and the success stories of the region (Singapore and Malaysia) will suffer greatly, especially Singapore. No wonder Singapore invests so heavily in its military to the point it has the strongest military in Southeast Asia, it knows it faces threats that could jeopardise its existence.
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@dr.batman2530 China and India both agreed that they need to act as leaders for the Global South to distribute vaccines to the Global South. They were two of the most prominent nations to demand wavering of IP in 2021. Chinese state media reported jovially about India's decision to remain neutral in the Ukraine War, even commending the country in a rare statement. A lot of focus on these skirmishes of 2020 but no focus on the fact that many times, China and India also fall on the same page and they fall on the same page when it comes to Global South issues. You can never tell which side India will be on. China is one of India's largest foreign investors and China is India's second largest trading partner. The only thing stopping them from becoming allies are the border disputes and many seem to be waking up to that. Let's not forget that the two countries had deep cultural exchange before the arrival of the Europeans and the only reason the countries have a disputed border today is because of British colonisation.
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@dr.batman2530 You can see the concern India had with Nepal signing the MCC (which could result in the placement of US troops in Nepal) as well as the USA's failed 2019 attempt at getting Sri Lanka to sign a SOFA and MCC to establish a permanent US military presence on the island nation in order to surround China. So we can't tell because it's so unpredictable.
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@psy_inamorato5703 I think India will care when they increasingly become "China 2.0" in the eyes of the US. When you have American CEOs like Aaron Levie saying things like "China and India will become significant threats to the US if we don't create an environment where you can build massive [tech] companies", you know India is becoming no different to Japan and China.
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@psy_inamorato5703 Just look at modern American cyberpunk fiction which is all about a technologically advanced dystopian future that is dominated by Asian nations and rooted in the fear of Asian dominance. In the 1980s, cyberpunk was all about the fear of Japanese domination and Japanese influence was abundant and then beginning in the 2010s and into today, cyberpunk now also features so much Chinese and Indian influence like Mandarin and Hindi signage. Now why would that be the case? Pretty self explanatory isn't it? You should read about techno-orientalism and how they view India. India is just another Japan and China waiting to happen, even in my country a very famous and respected political scientist said that we must treat India as a friend and as a possible future threat. Just a few months ago, an American professor controversially said that the US faces a threat from an "Asian elite" and spoke of derision towards educated Indian immigrants who she says "hate America" and are "anti-American". She was allowed to say all of this on primetime TV in the US on Fox News. You have to take those rose coloured glasses off. At the end of the day, we're all looking out for ourselves, If that means India becomes an enemy then that's what's going to happen.
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@ashaypallav4158 I didn't speak about Indonesia
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@ashaypallav4158 I'm talking about India. Stop talking about Indonesia.
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