China will not be fooled//India and China's great game in full swing

Some Westerners have always promoted Western-style democracy, freedom and human rights in China. They make political system reform suggestions advocating a multi-party system and check and balances on powers in China, which challenge the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the country's current socialist political system. These Westerners think the West's check and balances on power, and parliamentary democracy are the best stuff and should be common.

Most of the values they advocated are non-existent which even they themselves are unable to hold on to. Take the "human rights above sovereignty" theories for example, will Western countries open their borders to let immigrants from poor countries enter freely and offer them jobs? The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once said that for the two major issues of world peace and development, neither has been settled. Why? One important reason is the non-democracy of the international relations. Have developed countries ever given developing counties democracy and freedom by transferring their discourse power and discussion right? Never.

The Chinese people did try to copy Western countries' political system and democracy on the path to pursue democracy and freedom, but every attempt was shattered by the big powers and feudalists who only wanted to give Chinese people the freedom of being their slaves.

It is the CPC who led Chinese people liberate the nation and overthrow the oppression of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism. Deng Xiaoping pointed out the essence of western democracy, saying that "the democracy of capitalist society is for the bourgeois and the monopoly capital". For disadvantaged countries and their peoples, this rhetoric is nothing but an ideological trap.

Moreover, "separation of powers" is not the universal mode for western capitalist countries. It was the American Constitution that first defined the "check and balance" system. It was surely a progress at that time compared with Europe's despotic monarchy or constitutional monarchy. However, the primary purpose of the system is to confine the powers of the House of Representatives instead of balancing legislative, executive and judicial powers.

The US's ruling parties believe the House of Representatives is the closest to the public with the House's elected representatives. Therefore, the ruling parties set up the Senate above the House of Representatives, and then use the President's administrative power to counteract and suppress the power of the House of Representatives.

Besides, they endow the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court the veto right to the House of Representatives. The Chief Justice who is appointed by the President has a life-long tenure. Senators have a 6-year-long tenure while House representatives have only two. How could such a "check and balance" system which suppresses and confines the power of people's representatives be pursued as a model of democracy?

Preconditions of the formation of Western political models were both shameful and noncopiable.

In the next 10 years, India plans to spend US$35 billion on naval equipment. One Indian navy official defined India's economic and strategic interests as stretching from the edge of the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean. With the Chinese military modernizing its missile and sea-based capabilities, India is building its own strategic stocks rapidly. "India's defense spending is pegged at less than 2 percent of the country's gross domestic product. This is grossly inadequate for the huge threats and challenges that confront India. The People's Liberation Army of China is modernizing rapidly and will soon become a first-rate 21st century force. This situation is not conducive to strategic stability," said Gurmeet Kanwal, retired Army brigadier and director of the Centre for Land Warfare Studies.

In recent years, India's military purchases from Russia have focused on fighter aircraft and helicopters. Moscow has always been the number one supplier of military aircraft to New Delhi. Indian Air Force Chief P. V. Naik has confirmed that India has bought 80 Mi-17 helicopters, to be delivered later this year, and that the purchase of another 59 is under way. These 139 helicopters will cost US$700 million.

The Indian Defense Ministry has confirmed an additional order of 42 Su-30MKI fighter jets, bringing India's fleet of Su-30 aircraft up to 272, and costing US$13.6 billion. The Indian Air Force plans to upgrade its Mig-29 fighter group and IL-76 transport planes. Starting in 2012, India plans to spend US$2.5 billion upgrading its Su-30 fleet. On October 6, India announced plans to buy 300 fifth-generation stealth fighters jointly developed with Russia, in a contract worth around US$30 billion.

In response to what it sees as a Chinese missile threat, India is trying to buy a missile defense system. Defense News disclosed on September 6 that according to US's China Military Report, the PLA plans to station "Dongfeng-21" medium-range ballistic missiles on the Tibetan Plateau, prompting India submitted its biggest ever order of US$3 billion to the international military market. America's "Patriot -3", Israel's "Iron Dome" and "David's sling" are the preferred options for the India Defense Ministry.

The current geopolitical reality in Asia is that: under the overarching umbrella of American power, China, Japan and India are growing more rapidly than ever before. At present, Sino-Japanese and Sino-US relations remain tense, while the game between India and China is in full swing.

Source: China.org