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CCP's eventual end can only come through economic collapse. The West expected India to play a key role in their efforts to decouple from China. Far from it, our own dependence on China is growing. A section of India's private sector keeps shilling for cheap Chinese imports while Modi sarkar is clueless on matters of knowhow and skills.

We badly need another Manohar Parrikkar or R Venkataraman. Someone like Jayant Sinha (McKinsey) is denied ministry. Rajeev Chandrasekharan retired early. Ashwini Vaishnaw, instead of working on strategic areas, spends most of his time at Railway crossings.

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the CCP is a threat to everybody, and in particular to its neighbors in Asia. before the han empire swallowed the buffer state of Tibet, India didn't have too much trouble from them, but now that they are on the northern border, it is a great danger for India. the economic aspect of the highly skewed trade numbers may be OK to begin with, because it is allowing india's screwdriver assembly operations to ramp up their inbound and outbound supply chains, which will eventually help them scale up.

the real problem in India is the lack of R&D especially in the private sector. India is content to just pick up intellectual property from the west and replicate it for a lower price. that has limited scope.

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I heard more than one astrologer predict the break up of China in the coming decade. I hope India will have a role in this, although, if it is truly destined, we can continue our "R&D? What R&D" and China will still collapse. The very thought of seeing Free Tibet in our lifetime gives goosebumps.

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the han empire will, and has to, collapse. Tibet, sinkiang, Mongolia, Manchuria etc will escape from the clutches of Hans, who will revert back to the traditional han china, which is just the southeastern seaboard.

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