- 08 Jun 2023 20:05
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Xi has been killing China's Belt and Road projects. But he dramatically increased spending on the project in Pakistan.
At a casual glance, you'd have to be mad to invest heavily in Pakistan. It's mountainous, which makes building a train very, very, very expensive. But the rural part of the country is hostile, the country has trouble holding itself together. There will be trouble.
So why are they doing it?
From their point of view, it's crucial. 85% of their oil comes from the Middle East, and their navy can't protect those ships. They don't have a blue water navy. Even if they did, they don't have the numbers to confront the American navy any serious distance from China. To make matters worse, the Indian navy has blue water ships, and if war broke out, they could simply stop 85% of the oil going to China, and redirect it to India.
It gets better.
Both China and India depend on water coming from the Himalayas to survive. They both have severe water shortages, although India's problem is worse.
China is building a dam that could slow, or stop, a lot of the water currently going to India.
So you can see why China wants to use Pakistan to ship oil. And you can see why China wants that dam to keep India from being an equal.
China has been designing it's military to be better than what India has. Forget the press releases about them being competitive with us, they want dominance over India. They just started building a new tank, it's not world class, but it was built from the ground up to fight India.
Anyway, I came across this video that does a good job of explaining all this. And having all this explained will go a long way to explaining why China is doing what it is doing.
At a casual glance, you'd have to be mad to invest heavily in Pakistan. It's mountainous, which makes building a train very, very, very expensive. But the rural part of the country is hostile, the country has trouble holding itself together. There will be trouble.
So why are they doing it?
From their point of view, it's crucial. 85% of their oil comes from the Middle East, and their navy can't protect those ships. They don't have a blue water navy. Even if they did, they don't have the numbers to confront the American navy any serious distance from China. To make matters worse, the Indian navy has blue water ships, and if war broke out, they could simply stop 85% of the oil going to China, and redirect it to India.
It gets better.
Both China and India depend on water coming from the Himalayas to survive. They both have severe water shortages, although India's problem is worse.
China is building a dam that could slow, or stop, a lot of the water currently going to India.
So you can see why China wants to use Pakistan to ship oil. And you can see why China wants that dam to keep India from being an equal.
China has been designing it's military to be better than what India has. Forget the press releases about them being competitive with us, they want dominance over India. They just started building a new tank, it's not world class, but it was built from the ground up to fight India.
Anyway, I came across this video that does a good job of explaining all this. And having all this explained will go a long way to explaining why China is doing what it is doing.
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