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Best way for peace is that India must return occupied Chinese areas to China and occupied Pakistani areas (Kashmir) to
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Do you all think that there will be a war by India against China/Pakistan ?
I do not think so. Reason is that Indian economy and Indian morale is seriously down .
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Do you all think that there will be a war by India against China/Pakistan ?
I do not think so. Reason is that Indian economy and Indian morale is seriously down .
So The Economist discussed the best cuisine. The explanations for American and British completely don't make sense. But I'm glad they didn't include India - Indian cuisine isn't worth mentioning.
CHINESE by Fuchsia Dunlop
There’s only one emperor among cuisines: the others are all pretenders. Chinese cuisine is peerless in its range of ingredients and cooking methods, the diversity of its regional flavours and sophistication of its gastronomic culture. It has something to offer every palate and predilection. Partial to French haute cuisine? Try a banquet in Hangzhou, whose food markets dazzled Marco Polo. Keener on pasta? Look no further than the astonishing noodle arts of Shanxi province. The thrilling spiciness of Indian or Thai? Head for Sichuan, where “a hundred dishes have a hundred different flavours”. Aside from its multifarious regional cooking styles, China has Buddhist vegetarian, Muslim and medicinal culinary traditions—not to mention the cuisines of its 55 ethnic minorities.
Many of today’s food crazes have their antecedents in China, including the physical transformations of molecular gastronomy, the esoteric ferments of New Nordic cooking, and the playful wit of Heston Blumenthal. The Chinese make noodles out of fish, ferment overgrown vegetable stalks into relishes and conjure vegetarian banquets resembling meat. They create delicacies out of odds and ends like chicken gizzards and pomelo peel. Outsiders scorn the Chinese for “eating everything”, as if their adventurousness stemmed from desperation. Actually, it comes from passion, discrimination and curiosity that finds pleasure almost everywhere—in particular, in the realm of texture, largely neglected in the Western world.
The Man-Han imperial banquet, a three-day extravaganza featuring whole suckling pigs and bear’s paws, supposedly represents the pinnacle of the Chinese culinary arts. But Chinese cuisine isn’t just for the rich; the love of good food runs like a vein through society, untroubled by the hang-ups about physical pleasure bequeathed to Europeans by medieval saints. China’s street food is just as amazing as its banquets.
And it’s good for you. No other culture lays such an emphasis on the intimate relationship between food and health. The everyday Chinese diet is based on grains and vegetables, with modest amounts of meat and fish, and very little sugar—a model for healthy and sustainable eating. A good Chinese meal is all about balance: even a lavish banquet should leave you feeling shufu—comfortable and well.
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I was flying on Japan Airlines, and the inflight menu said they covered the Four Heavenly Cuisines - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French. But in my opinion only Chinese and Japanese are Heavenly while French and Italian are sub-Heavenly.
No, I don't agree one bit. To be blunt, your analysis is naive and superficial.
1. Your first point is nothing but propaganda mindset. Any mindset that treats nations like individual persons are propaganda for the masses. Nations don't act that way. The so-called "thrust-worthiness", "dependability", etc are NEVER real metrics upon which nations/governments assess and carry out their foreign policy, or geostrategy. They are nothing but populist propaganda for the media, to fool people into thinking one way. "Predictability" is the real metric. One government ONLY uses terms like "not trustworthy" when they are out of option in a diplomatic/media battle with another, and have to resort to smearing their opponent in order make themselves look less unsuccessful in dealing with the opponent, in the eyes of domestic/foreign public. Therefore, you first point might look like anti-India, but it was actually trashing on everyone else and praising India.
The reality is the contrary. Russia and China do NOT plan on pulling India into an Eurasian bloc by persuasion and negotiation. Because such things are never accomplished by chit-chatting. The way to do it is to put India in a situation where the pros of entering such bloc overwhelming out-weight the cons (or, the cons of not entering the bloc out-weights the pros). Right now, That is being slowly but steadily being accomplished.
2. Your second point is even more naive. Do not assume people/nations are foolish. They are NEVER foolish! They know exactly what's going on. They act like they don't only because it is NOT in their interest to do so. Nations are interest-driven creatures, they are not reason-driving, nor do they profess to be truth-seeking. They west know EXACTLY how India lacks human rights. But in the face of a rising China, it is in their interest to keep the urban legend of the "superiority of democracy" alive. This is NOT for purpose of pandering to India. This is solely for the purpose of keeping their own prestige alive on the world stage.
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3. This point is naive, but I will let you get away with it, because it is a little bit tricky. The West KNOWS that India will never be able to approach even one third of China's level. Even Indian elites knows this. However, this is exactly why they will have a peace of mind to prop up India to challenge China. All of today's surviving civilizations are advanced civilizations with a lot of history and advanced school of thoughts. They are anything but short-sighted. If India is on a course to be as powerful as China, the West will NEVER prop up India. Because this method of "solving the China problem" will simply create a more troublesome "India problem" later on. The West (or any other civilizations) ONLY make such mistakes under 2 circumstances:
1. Their entire population are put under a strong momentum for a short-sight populist mindset in which they can't stop.
2. They grossly underestimated the potentials and capabilities of the weaker party.
Therefore, it is IMPOSSIBLE for the west to be fooled and overestimate India, AND help India against China. Those two does NOT logically go together. The West will NOT help India to become another China that will simply challenge them even more in the future.
4. This point is non-sensical and pointless. Again, the West is NOT stupid, nor are they so primitive that they don't have their own metrics and method of assessing such matter. ESPECIALLY when such matter is directly linked with profit. Trust me, when it comes to profit, the West is as shrewd as humanly possible. Companies are NEVER fooled. They do things because they have to do it. They are always on a course of expansion, this does NOT mean that they are fooled by India. They WILL try to open factory in India regardless of what Indian government says. Of course, it is better if the Indian government welcomes them with sweet talks, because this means that the cost of such expansion is less. Your narrative is making a very complex matter incorrectly simple. This will only mislead your readers.
If India is on a course to be as powerful as China, the West will NEVER prop up India.
This is true.
And this isn't oblivious to Indian strategic planners.
What they are trying to do is to extract the financial benefits for India under the pretext of confronting China. They are fully aware that they would've been confronted the same way China has been confronted if they get as big and powerful as China.
Even a neutered Japan faced hostility from its "key-ally" during the bubble Era. (Side Note :its sad that very few video documentaries exist of the Bubble Era 1980-1990. Help me with it guys, gals).
But this is a crucial time period for India. It's demographic dividend if not tapped soon enough (By 2030 atleast) then the Dividend will mutate into demographic Burden.
From India's point of view, siding with West is just the simple answer. Ladakh or no Ladakh, India would have sided with West to pluck whatever big or little fruits of Globalist Capitalism it can. It's is not a question of it must. It should. It's future depends on it.
This is true.
And this isn't oblivious to Indian strategic planners.
What they are trying to do is to extract the financial benefits for India under the pretext of confronting China. They are fully aware that they would've been confronted the same way China has been confronted if they get as big and powerful as China.
Even a neutered Japan faced hostility from its "key-ally" during the bubble Era. (Side Note :its sad that very few video documentaries exist of the Bubble Era 1980-1990. Help me with it guys, gals).
But this is a crucial time period for India. It's demographic dividend if not tapped soon enough (By 2030 atleast) then the Dividend will mutate into demographic Burden.
From India's point of view, siding with West is just the simple answer. Ladakh or no Ladakh, India would have sided with West to pluck whatever big or little fruits of Globalist Capitalism it can. It's is not a question of it must. It should. It's future depends on it.
This is NOTHING new. The West and the Anglo-Americans are NOT newbies when it comes to balance of power.
"Splendid Isolation" is a good example. These are not conspiracy theories, these are actual history that everyone in history and political science learns about. It is basic common knowledge to think tanks and academia. It is just uncommon to other common people, because the West (the US) has been pushing what Mike Judge called "idiocracy" under consumerism for too long.
I did go onto some of the India defense forums and all I saw was lots of racist Fu Manchu memes. For some reason it didn't bother me. I don't see how Indians can do damage to China anyway. But yeah they'll never progress if they don't swallow their pride but continue to use racism to make themselves feel better about themselves.
I hope India develops Brahmos and forgets about everything else
I hope India develops Brahmos and forgets about everything else
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