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Regime Change: The Chinese and the World Would Benefit
It is fascinating and frightening to see how Chinese leadership has bulldozed, threatened, bullied, and seduced the world these past two decades. With a clueless and mediocre American administration in DC, on this side of the pond, and an aging and tired set of West European countries on the other side, with Putin playing provincial games more intent on training hacks to siphon off millions here and there from hapless computer users than figuring out a way for Russia to emerge as a potential world leader, what we have is an aggressive and fattened China that over the past three decades has figured out how to bring the world to its knees — either as supplicants or as dependents. The attack on Indian soldiers on June 16 is a show of force by Beijing to let Indians know that they cannot pave an independent path for themselves in this era of the Chinese origin pandemic. We have all become hapless, masked, fearful and angry denizens of a pandemic and panic-stricken world, and let us, for heaven’s sake, acknowledge that there needs to be regime change in Beijing lest the Communist Party of China (CPC) don the role of global hegemon.
Some of India’s leaders knew, even as early as 1950, what threats Beijing (then Peking) posed for India and the world. But then, there were also Indian leaders who could not or would not pay attention to the nature of Chinese…