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Sardaukar20

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China isn't interested in any kind of conflict right now. At the current rates of progress, the PLA will overtake the US military around 2035. Any war threatens to push that date farther and farther behind. It's just not worth it. Yes, there's always some danger with negotiating with India, but I'm pretty sure that the Chinese negotiators know just how untrustworthy India is. As such, I don't expect the negotiations to be very fruitful, but there's always some hope. After all, China has managed to settle their borders with every country other than India and Bhutan, and finishing the whole set can be very handy in the future. Right now, India isn't a threat and they're in a weak enough position that they might actually take some sort of deal.
You're right in the sense that China does not want any conflict for now. I would add that even if China becomes #1, it will remain uninterested in conflicts.

What I disagree is that India is interested in permanently settling its border disputes with China. I honestly think that India is simply not interested at all. India always has imperial intentions towards its neighbours and China's Xizang, regardless of its military strength. As long as it can keep this dispute going, it can always lay claim on Chinese lands and dream of realizing Akhand Bharat. Since Modi took power, the Indian leaders have ceased to be reasonable people.

Nevertheless, even if a deal is struck, India could not be trusted to stick to it. The moment some convenient excuse appears, it would turn around and renege on any agreements. After the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing, India revoked Kashmir's autonomous status. After the Pahalgam attack this year, India walked away from the 1960 Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan. India had violated the 1993 BPTA with China by surging Indian troops to the disputed border with China in 2017 (Doklam standoff), and again in 2020 (Aksai Chin standoff).

I'm not saying that China should go to war with India now to settle the border dispute. Instead, I what I'm saying is that China needs to demand no less than all of it's historic lands, and be prepared to fight a war for them. Because India had proven to be an untrustworthy and hostile nation. India doesn't respect diplomacy. It only respects cold hard military power.
 
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pmc

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This will accelerate decline of Japan further if they actually implement it. this about US STEM shortage but also give this info about Japan shortage in STEM. similar problem will arise with Germany once they start building there own weopons.

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The US is not the only country facing an engineering talent shortage. For example, the Japanese Ministry of Economy has predicted a deficit of over 700,000 engineers in Japan by 2030, and the German Economic Institute reported a shortage of 320,000 STEM specialists in Germany as of April 2022.
 

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Written by Singaporean scholars:

Southeast Asia Is Starting to Choose​

Why the Region Is Leaning Toward China
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You're right in the sense that China does not want any conflict for now. I would add that even if China becomes #1, it will remain uninterested in conflicts.

What I disagree is that India is interested in permanently settling its border disputes with China. I honestly think that India is simply not interested at all. India always has imperial intentions towards its neighbours and China's Xizang, regardless of its military strength. As long as it can keep this dispute going, it can always lay claim on Chinese lands and dream of realizing Akhand Bharat. Since Modi took power, the Indian leaders have ceased to be reasonable people.

Nevertheless, even if a deal is struck, India could not be trusted to stick to it. The moment some convenient excuse appears, it would turn around and renege on any agreements. After the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing, India revoked Kashmir's autonomous status. After the Pahalgam attack this year, India walked away from the 1960 Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan. India had violated the 1993 BPTA with China by surging Indian troops to the disputed border with China in 2017 (Doklam standoff), and again in 2020 (Aksai Chin standoff).

I'm not saying that China should go to war with India now to settle the border dispute. Instead, I what I'm saying is that China needs to demand no less than all of it's historic lands, and be prepared to fight a war for them. Because India had proven to be an untrustworthy and hostile nation. India doesn't respect diplomacy. It only respects cold hard military power.
It's pretty simple. China writes what it wants and sticks to that. India can come up with all kinds of excuses in which China responds by ignoring all of it. That's the proper way to respond.

It is said credibility takes decades to establish and a few seconds to destroy. I don't know what India is thinking but they managed to to destroy all their goodwill in record time and yet seem to be unaware of where they stand.
 
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