Thursday 25 September 2014

China: The Uncanny Dragon


The World is disgustingly curious about China and India is no exception. India curiosity is more psychological and actuated by copious provocative incursions across the LAC. Imbued by its dominating disposition, China of late has been repeatedly lashing at the LAC creating a reign of terror. India’s cozy relationship with Japan irked China. It feared that strong Indo-Japanese ties could circumvent its ascendancy. While Prime Minister Modi serenaded President Xi Jiang on his visit to India and extended royal hospitality, Chinese troops laid seize across the LAC (Line of Actual Control). The overt belligerence under the mask of extending business investments during the bilateral visit blatantly exposed the diabolical stance of China.

The comprehensive subtler caliginous goal of the dragon is to establish a new world order. Emboldened by its robust economy and envious growth rates over a period of three decades, its imperialistic traits are now apparent. It’s on a mission to assert itself as a super power and prevail over Asia.

Shangai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) mirrors ambitions of China to build a dominant security block on par with the acclaimed NATO. Incidentally the meets of these two organisations were held in a gap of 20 days. NATO’s Summit concluded in Wales, New Zealand while the six member countries of SCO- Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia and China met at the 14th Annual Summit in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan. During the summit, members unanimously decided to expand the organisation.  Accordingly, observers of the group Mongolia and Afghanistan were given first priority to join SCO as members. In the meanwhile, China invited India, Pakistan and Iran to be its members, who in turn are keen to join the group. Iran’s membership will be under scrutiny since it is facing UN sanctions. The West is imminently worried with this move as its strong hold in Asia might decline if India and Pakistan join the group. China is intent on defying the US-led world order sooner than later. Dragon is busy wooing smaller nations and trying to bring them under its fold under a multitude of partnerships. SCO’s accomplices insist that the main objective of their partnership is to combat three evils: terrorism, separatism and extremism. Along these lines China recently conducted a joint military exercise or rather anti-terrorist drill in Inner Mongolia with its personnel.

Because of its growing presence and commercial clout China is able to secure the cooperation of the Central Asian local authorities in successfully deporting illegal migrants mostly the Uighurs through Laos and Thailand. Through a series of rendition agreements, China is wielding control in this region and slowly turning itself into regional security block. With NATO forces exiting Afghanistan by the end of 2014 growing uncertainties might force   India and Pakistan to seriously consider joining SCO. China is aiming to head one more organisation named Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA). Though cohesion among members in organisations led by China is doubtful, it is intent on promoting itself by building various institutions.

Fortified by Russia’s persistence China vigorously pursued the proposal of developing BRICS New Development Bank and a Development Fund on par with the World Bank and IMF to counterbalance the West. China even plans to launch a multilateral Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as an alternative to the US and Japan controlled Asia Development Bank (ADB). Infrastructure development is a major task among the developing nations in Asia and a promise of financing such projects will interest countries like India.  In spite of mutual distrust and border disputes India is leaning to join the new bank which would start with a capital of $50 billion from member countries. Under the banner of Maritime Silk Route (MSR), China is trying to ally with countries in the South East Asia, West Asia, South Asia and Africa to build a network of port cities along the route linked to the economic hinterland of China. China also has a heady role in a trilateral commission (presently languishing) between South Korea and Japan and a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

With its dominance in a spectrum of organisation China is nurture its economic and strategic capabilities. In varied multilateral organisations with its overbearing role China is slowly but stealthily wresting control over the World. By the time world could wake up to its mess, it might have had created a new order.
 
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