Welcome to the WWII Forums! Log in or Sign up to interact with the community.

A sea change in geopolitic ?

Discussion in 'Non-World War 2 History' started by jeaguer, Mar 3, 2006.

  1. jeaguer

    jeaguer New Member

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2006
    Messages:
    929
    Likes Received:
    4
    Location:
    Sydney Australia
    via TanksinWW2
    fromdeuch welles , any though ?

    "Bush would have earned recognition for taking the initiative if he hadn't built the strategic partnership between Washington and Delhi on the basis of a questionable nuclear pact," criticized the Tages-Anzeiger daily in Switzerland. "The bilateral treaty breaks the international rules that are meant to prevent a nuclear armaments race. It raises India -- which consciously did not sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaties so it could be free to develop warheads -- to the level of a nuclear power. And it sends a message to nuclear wannabes like North Korea or Iran that the US government will only withhold nuclear weapon technology from regimes that don't suit it. The obvious double standard belies the superpower's claim to moral leadership. The US president must be prepared for accusations that the half-baked nuclear deal undermines the architecture of global security."



    "By signing this historic pact with India, Bush killed two birds with one stone," wrote French daily Liberation. "The aim is to compensate the 21st century's most important geo-strategic upheaval. India has the same trump cards as China: Dynamic population development, the will to develop, technical abilities and the natural ambitions of a very old civilization can make it the world's third-biggest economic power in a few decades. India also has trump cards that China doesn't have: civil rights, the rule of law, a democratic tradition, a decentralized system and a broad middle class that is open to the -- above all English-speaking -- world.



    DW staff (ncy)
     
  2. Roel

    Roel New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 29, 2003
    Messages:
    12,678
    Likes Received:
    3
    Location:
    Netherlands
    via TanksinWW2
    I daresay the efficiency of China's totalitarian collectivist political system is one of the country's greatest advantages in the competition with the West, simply because it grants the Chiense government access to methods and tools no Western country can justify using.
     
  3. Skua

    Skua New Member

    Joined:
    Aug 12, 2003
    Messages:
    2,889
    Likes Received:
    0
    Location:
    Norway
    via TanksinWW2
    Yes, the pragmatic mix of fascism and capitalism China represents have proven very effective.

    China is also a much more homogenic nation than India which still struggles with cultural and religious differences.
     
  4. Kellhound

    Kellhound New Member

    Joined:
    May 16, 2004
    Messages:
    401
    Likes Received:
    0
    Location:
    Spain
    via TanksinWW2
    China is possibly the only real fascist state today.
    They are homogeneous or simply nobody outside its borders has heard about them? ;)
     

Share This Page