TaiShang
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LOL, scrambling for resources? Do you know what is the most important of all these resources... it is water. And the Tibetan plateau is the water tower of Asia.
Of this "alliance" you are speaking of, not a single one has even officially declared China to be an enemy. We have seen how much resistance China has faced, when India retreated from Donglang or from the massive buildup of islands and military bases in the SCS.
Remind me again, did even a single nation on Earth officially take India's side during the Donglang standoff? Even one? In politics, words are cheap, yet India didn't even get the support of a few words.
Indians are easy to fool by mere speech or some titled ascribed. That's perhaps why they are so adamantly attached to being the world's largest democracy but ignore the corresponding fact that they are also one of the world's most dysfunctional governments.
They take words at face value. That may work between relatives and friends, but, between countries, they have little weight. If words and shows had any effect, we would not be on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe in about 6 years after Hillary and Medvedev pushed the reset button.
The reality is that China's military is underfunded and underdeveloped for a country of its economic capacity and industrial capability. The Chinese military has some catching up to do in order to correct the demilitarisation policies of the 80s and 90s. If you think China is a version of "The Third Reich" with a military budget of 1.3% GDP then what will China be with a 2% NATO recommended ($250 billion equivalent), 2.5% like India ($325 billion equivalent), 3.5% like USA ($455 billion equivalent), or 5% like Russia ($650 billion equivalent), maybe learn from Israel by spending 5.8% ($750 billion equivalent and surpass the USA's military spending)?
Since you are equating contemporary China with the Third Reich then lets look at the relative spending on military. Nazi Germany’s military expenditure as a percentage of GDP leading up to WW2:
1935: 8% ($1 trillion equivalent for China)
1936: 13% ($1.7 trillion)
1937: 13% ($1.7 trillion)
1938: 17% ($2.2 trillion)
1939: 23% ($3 trillion)
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/nazi-germany-military-expenditure/
China is far from gearing up for war, you are one magnitude off. It isn't even spending at the relative levels of most nations, especially ones with certain geopolitical aims.
Foreign relations is not built upon comfort levels, it is built upon tangible interests. China is doing relatively well in this field.
Excellent. Empirical evidence is the realm some hate to compete. Again, Indians are attached to adjectives without backing them with ground/historical facts.
If 1.3% GDP makes China Third Reich, What does 2.5% GDP of military spending make India? Alien Third Reich?
It is so easy to refute Indians that it becomes almost not fun.
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