Ritual Wars of Rise and Fall
By
Colonel Kirtiyanand Das
Both America and China are alike. If one is an evil then the other is a devil. Henry Kissinger had said that is dangerous to have American as enemy and its fatal to have it as friend. It applies equally for China.
Both are not trust worthies!
China still lives in its historical isolation. And the recent ill gotten wealth of its party oligarchs has gone to their heads. It’s as if an expansionist Manchu Dynasty has reincarnated into People’s Republic of China and is run by the pseudo Marxist as Litarati elites, the party beaurocracy.
All it wants is to gobble land around its periphery. It only wants to colonize Asia and Africa as the Westerners did a century back. Then only she thinks she will be able to avenge her Century of Humiliation!
Having served their nomadic masters for centuries, a craze to graze in new pasture has settled in her soul!
She has boundary disputes with all her neighbours and is in no mood to settle any and prefers new ones to bubble out at a drop of hat like pebbles of weiqi !
A continental and Civilizational State like India has to be on its own. Both China and India are the only two out of the four ancient civilizations (Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China) to have survived with much of its old tags still intact. But the Chinese wants to turn belligerent like the late entrants to the ancient world, the Persian and Greek. It has chosen conflict in place of cooperation and co existence of the ancient past that exist between the two.
In such scenario India has no option but to keep a safe distance and remain watchful. Chinese have no value for any agreement both written and oral like the West. They just can’t be trusted. They still remain a medieval beast in modern attire. Their behaviour haven’t changed since fifties and sixties.
We have seen how they came with new troops armed with barbed wire rapped base ball bats for a show down when they were found not implementing a signed agreement. It was good that Indians came back and doubled the unfortunate death score on the Chinese. Tass reported Chinses deaths to be over 75 in the Galwan clash! It is difficult to know the truth in a totalitarian state.
So learn it, never to trust the People’s Republic of China !
Chinese in the past said that good souls are reborn in Western heaven that is India. Likewise now all bad souls are born as members of Communist Party of China!
India perforce has to remain vigilant and increase its economic growth and military might rapidly. And make sure that right leadership is choosen to lead the country and the dynast riffraffs are done away with sooner the better.
Keep equi distance from all. And avoid to join the ritual war of Rise and Fall at all cost.
World has to pay a heavy price for every Rise, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece paid for the Rise of Persia. And then for the rise of Greece under Macedonian upstart Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia and finally Persian paid the price.
For the rise of Rome, the price was paid by Greece, Carthage, Egypt and Levant.
Only distance saved both China and India.
Subsequently Roman’s as Byzantium kept fighting the Persians under Sasanids and were then made to pay the price for the rise of the Arabs nomads as Muslim Caliphates.
India faced the Arabs in Sindh and the Chinese at Talass River in Central Asia.
Both ancient nations were defeated by the upstart Arab.
Then came the Alttaic Turks and Mongols who ruled the entire known world’s from Pacific to the Mediterranean. They became famous as Gunpowder Empires. They picked up gunpowder from their neighbour China and made battle use of the same. Chinese used it for ritual fire crackers for the pleasure of the elite.
And these too vanished once the Rise of West came on the scene.
Mughal’s end came in 1857, Manchu’s end came in 1911 and the Ottomans met their end in 1919 at the end of WW-l.
Virtual end of Mughals came at the Battle of Palassy in Bengal, Ottomans decline set in when Napoleon reached Egypt and the won the day at the battle of Pyramids. The Manchu’s virtual end came after tha two Opium Wars and China was kept open for the Western trading nations. So for the rise of the West, three Gunpowder Empires of Altaic people paid the price.
Now that the end of West is near, whose rise it will be and who all will pay the price? We have seen that no rise comes for free and it comes after the payment of a heavy price in terms of human lives and material resources.
So has the rituals of the war of Rise and Fall started?
May be!
Whose rise its going to be? China’s?
India’s?
Asiatic Russia’s?
Asia’s?
Asia-Africa’s?
Who has the answer?
No one, only the “Time” has the answer!
