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2009-08-10 India-Pakistan

China should break up India: Chinese strategist

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Posted by john frum 2009-08-10 11:35|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Despite any official cause, I still suspect that the demographic imbalance in both countries may push them to a population reduction war. 30-50 million "excess" males is a nightmare scenario. With no jobs and no chance for marriage, unless they kill each other off, they will turn into a giant army against their own nations.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-10 12:09|| 2009-08-10 12:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Peaceful Rise (TM)

Posted by john frum 2009-08-10 13:03|| 2009-08-10 13:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmmmm.

Think I should ~~double~~ treble my popcorn order?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-10 13:36|| 2009-08-10 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 All these countries are currently stuck as part of India, when they could share in the glory of being the new East Turkmenistan, their original inhabitants all living in stone huts while trainload after trainload of Han colonists take all the good jobs.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-08-10 13:48|| 2009-08-10 13:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Quadruple it, Barbara ... and don't forget dozen buckets of melted butter. Real butter, not that nasty orange oil that they put on theater popcorn.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-08-10 14:07|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-08-10 14:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Consider it done, Sgt. Mom.

And don't worry - I wouldn't dream of using that crap.

It's real butter all the way (with an option for Smart Balance for those with cholesterol problems). :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-10 14:20|| 2009-08-10 14:20|| Front Page Top

#7 By the way - I'm rooting for India.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-10 14:22|| 2009-08-10 14:22|| Front Page Top

#8 India is now a US ally. Stuff like this from China is driving us closer to them. All for the good.

China has a worse demographic problem. As many have said, they'll grow old before they become rich (except for the connected elites who are now very rich). And China is just as susceptible to divisive meddling if an adversary decides to play that card.

It is worth discussing he problems of excess males here. Interesting that a log of screwed up places restrict options for marraige either via polygamy (Islam where Osama gets many wives and the cannon fodder get none) or sex selection abortions, etc. in societies that disproportionately value males for whatever reason. I realize war is often the 'release valve' for such a trend. Certainly we see this with some al Queda ops. But shut in, losers looking @ naughty websites all day seems to be a modern trend.

I laugh when I hear American women complaining they are opressed by Western Patriarchy, etc. Yet, the West is a place where parents are equally happy to have a boy or girl. That has been the case for centuries and is a distinctive aspect of various northern european cultures. Unfortunately, immigration and birth rate trends mean that these countries are now changing rapidly in a way that means the 'excess male' trend might be coming there too.

Posted by JAB 2009-08-10 14:52|| 2009-08-10 14:52|| Front Page Top

#9 The Pakistani dictator General Yahya Khan was fond of saying that India only needed a sharp shock for it to split into many pieces.

Ironically it was his country that was split, during the 1971 war, when India was led by a Brahmin Hindu woman (married to a Zoarastrian), with an "untouchable" Defence minister, a Zoarastrian army chief, a Jewish theater commander, Christian Navy admirals offshore, Muslim and Sikh Generals commanding Sikh and Naga (Southern Baptists) spearhead troops.

Posted by john frum 2009-08-10 15:50|| 2009-08-10 15:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Im in good company when I say I am fed up with China's B.S., greasy pork, and human rights issues. And my money is on India.

Posted by Jack Chalet9975 2009-08-10 17:16|| 2009-08-10 17:16|| Front Page Top

#11 I like the greasy pork to be honest; especially in pot stickers. But other than that... screw China.

Posted by Secret Master 2009-08-10 17:34|| 2009-08-10 17:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Minced pig lips and earlobes...I'll pass. Give me nice curry any day.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-08-10 17:40|| 2009-08-10 17:40|| Front Page Top

#13 And anuther great moment in SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS occurs........

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-08-10 19:38|| NA]">[NA] 2009-08-10 19:38|| Front Page Top

#14 If this is an example of Chinese political analysis, they are probably evaluating a great many things wrongly. No doubt our own analysts are helping improve the process.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-10 22:17|| 2009-08-10 22:17|| Front Page Top

#15 Setting one barbarian against another is an ancient strategem. Chinese empires have employed it for thousands of years, both in times of strength and weakness. More recently, China provided tens of billions in aid to Communist guerrilla groups in Southeast Asia and Africa during the Cold War. In particular, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of Rhodesia's rival communist guerrilla organizations got a ton of aid from the Chinese.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-08-10 23:01|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-08-10 23:01|| Front Page Top

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