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4Tran

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There are many other targets to sell to or support, should China pursue such a policy, the Kashmir side is best left alone for PAK to deal with.

There are the Maoist, the east rebels beyond the chicken neck, the Sikhs etc. Causing problems elsewhere is far more effective as PAK can capitalise, thus saving resources.
This just isn't China's style. China has a steady policy of noninterference in a sovereign country's internal affair. They see things like arming insurgent groups as the kind of thing American and Western powers do and have an aversion to doing the same thing. If China really wanted to put pressure on India, they have far more direct and pointed methods.

They can start building more airbases in Tibet and shift more of the Western Theater air brigades from Xinjiang to there, they can increase the border garrisons, they can beef up infrastructure on the Indian border, they can increase the frequency and intensity of air patrols, and so on. The best thing about all of this is that it forces India to respond in kind, and they're not in a good position to do so, so it'll take a lot of pressure off the Pakistan border.
 

Mt1701d

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This just isn't China's style. China has a steady policy of noninterference in a sovereign country's internal affair. They see things like arming insurgent groups as the kind of thing American and Western powers do and have an aversion to doing the same thing. If China really wanted to put pressure on India, they have far more direct and pointed methods
I know it’s not their style, at least officially but it’s not like China has never done something on that front. Plus they don’t necessarily need to arm the groups, ‘causing problems’ have many dimensions.

Despite what India likes to claim, the various group are basically put down with force, supporting their goals and bringing their plight to the international stage and hammering on it would already cause a headache for India. Further it doesn’t need to be done officially, just having a means to bypass the Indians usual tactics of shutting down the internet is already good enough.
 

Thecore

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Why the US regime keeps underestimating China:

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Wasn't this dude pretty much the most ineffectual US ambassador to China in decades and frozen out of meeting any Chinese government, business or institutional parties of importance? I remember reading an article that he was so excited to meet and host a US delegation that was visiting China a year or so into his posting because otherwise he had nothing to do and was just staring at the walls all day basically. So we are supposed to listen to this loser's opinion on anything China related? Right...
 

Eventine

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well, what do you guys think of this assertion?
It's ridiculous, of course, and it will be the next shoe to fall.

Burns is further ahead on the "conventional thinking" ladder than most talking heads in the US. But he's still not up to date. The reality is that the US's domestic situation is increasingly dysfunctional, and the Trump administration has only accelerated the trend towards lower living standards, infrastructural decay, and rising inequality.

But the elites of the empire will always be the last to find out that they are without clothes; that the impression more & more visitors to the US get is not of wonder and awe, but of disappointment and alarm.

One thing Burns does have right is that the US's alliance system is one of the last real vestiges of US power (the other being its financial markets). If Trump hadn't pissed them off, they indeed could have done more damage together vs. China.

As it is, though, Trump is learning the important lesson that there's a reason things are the way they are. You can't just dictate to the world what you want to happen; this isn't 2000 any more.
 

zyklon

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> I have enough confidence in our democracy that the Chinese will come here and be impressed by our country.

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well, what do you guys think of this assertion?

If American democracy actually works as impressively as Nick Burns wants both you and himself to believe, he would have Marco Rubio's job right now.
 
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