Using N Korea and Pak, China playing a dangerous game
Let there be no doubt that North Korea, led by Kim Jong-un, could not have dared to fire a ballistic missile over Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi signed a 17 billion dollar bullet train deal, without the encouragement and permission by China.
In this project, Japan is investing all the money which India will pay back in 50 years at 0.1% interest rate. Kim Jong-un was apparently made to fire this missile by a piqued China, who before this deal was ranting and shouting that India and Japan are welcome to formulate a partnership but not alliance.
Who is China to dictate to India and Japan what they should and should not do?
Chinas is piqued by the growing collaboration between India, Japan and USA. It believes that if this proximity continues, then the Chinese dream of being the sole dominant power in Asia would dissipate.
One should not forget that it was Japanese investment and transfer of technology to China that made the country what it is today. Now China is worried that the same might happen to India, because then India would be the second pole to attract Asian countries to join.
After the stand taken by India on Doklam issue, smaller South-East Asian countries like Vietnam and the Philippines are questioning Chinese construction of seven artificial islands in South China Sea. China claims South China Sea as its own.
China is the sole godfather of North Korea and supplies all necessities, including missile technology, to it. North Korean President Kim Jong-un is not as eccentric as he is made out to be. His main task, as assigned by China, is to keep South Korea, Japan and US off balance.
Kim Jong-un is performing this task very well by conducting nuclear tests and testing ballistic missiles, which he says are capable of hitting US mainland.
Recently, North Korea claimed that it tested a hydrogen bomb. The shenanigans of North Korea have put fear of God in South Korea and Japan. Both these countries are dependent on the US for their nuclear shield and both have taken defensive measures from nuclear attack by deploying Patriot and Thad anti-missile system.
However, these defensive systems are untried in war conditions. Probability of nuclear attack looms large. American
CHINAS IS PIQUED BY THE GROWING COLLABORATION BETWEEN INDIA, JAPAN AND USA. IT BELIEVES THAT IF THIS PROXIMITY CONTINUES, THEN THE CHINESE DREAM OF BEING THE SOLE DOMINANT POWER IN ASIA WOULD DISSIPATE.
President Donald Trump has already warned North Korea that any attack on Japan or South Korea or the US will result in annihilation of North Korea. We should be rest assured that, eccentric or not, Kim Jong-un will not go that far. China will not allow that to happen. Pakistan is another protégé of China which has decided to join China camp after its soured relations with America. By investing in Pakistan almost 50 billion dollars on CPEC, China is ensuring that Pakistan does not leave Chinese camp.
In CPEC, which China is building in Pakistan to connect its Xinxiang province with warm water port of Gwador in Pakistan – a distance of 3000 kms – China is getting engineers, workers, coal, cement and steal from China. In other words, in a period of time Pakistan will become a colony of China.
China has been using Pakistan to keep India destabilised in Asia. However, Pakistan has annoyed the US by its double game of sheltering those very jehadis with whom it claims to be fighting.
Being godfather of North Korea and Pakistan – both rogue states and nuclear powers – China is playing a dirty game. North Korea is hell bent on scaring South Korea and Japan and needling America with its missile firing and nuclear tests, all due to secret Chinese cover.
These games of China can any time get converted into nuclear holocaust. The American President has already put North Korea on nuclear warning if it attacks any of them.
As for Pakistan, its PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has threatened India that Pakistan has developed tactical nuclear weapons to safeguard against the Indian Cold Start. If Pakistan thinks that China will be ready to foot Pakistani bills which are amounting to 9 billion dollars, just the interest to repay loans taken earlier, Pakistan is mistaken.
It is the need of the hour for the US, Japan, South Korea and India to form a lose front. Australia may also join in. This collaboration will keep China in check.