What is sovereignty? You cannot eat sovereignty. This treaty will cement close relation with USA further. When India was allied with commies, the growth rate was 2-3%. It has climbed to 9% after India embraced US. If we consolidate our ties further, in next fifteen years Indian per capita GDP will hit $10000. We will be just like western countries. Sovereignty does not matter. Look at Japan. US still occupy Okinawa. Their nuclear battle ships are stationed there. But it does not make any difference so far as ordinary Japanese are concerned. It is great to be US client state as UK, Germany, Italy, whole of Western Europe illustrate.
Also, communists do not believe in sovereignty. They believe in international brotherhood of the proletariat.
RE:Do not apologize
by dip dutt on Aug 25, 2007 11:22 AM Permalink
Very fair point by Minto. The key question is: What is the objective? -To be a prosperous nation or to be an economic military superpower.. I have problems with niether..
But if the goal is to be a superpower, you can't become one by being a stooge to either USA or China. To follow your specific example, Japan is a puppet nation which is not a superpower and with every passing day losing to China, be it economy or the Olympics. There used to be a time when Japan was the undisputed leader in the Asian Games...Gone are those days.. Japan's economy fluctuates with the US. I was reading an article on how US subprime market could hurt Japanese economy. On the other hand only 3% of China's banking sector depends on US subprime market and hence is insulated.
Even in the days of the USSR, China was never USSR's stooge.
To give an analogy from our day to day life, if you play stooge to your manager, you will always be #2, until he retires/moves. You should try to outsmart/outdo him if you want the position. I do not see America retiring and relinquishing its supremacy.. So the only way to create another pole is by cooperating and competing at the same time, which is exactly the outline of the Sino-US relationship,
