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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Great Game 2.0, Kashmir, the Key

Christopher Snedden author of “Kashmir: The Unwritten History”, while talking about the larger Kashmir dispute, given India and Pakistan’s position, he argued that a solution will not be arrived at unless there is a “circuit-breaker” — an unpredictable natural disaster, or an even more unpredictable Chinese invasion into Kashmir.
This was in March 2013.
There have been major development since then:

A. China's One Belt One Road initiative.

B. Reorganisation of J&K State.

C. Xi Jinping upgrading China's foreign policy to assertion of One China, shifting centre of the world to China from West, Challenge US as super power.

D. Eruption of Pandemic.

E. Pakistan dropped by US as special strategic partner, pushing her into Chinese fold(read trap).

F. Iran and Turkey raising heads against US.

G. US losing hold in Afghanistan and Syria.

H. Russia emerges as an open pivot for strategic alliances.

Kashmir, plays a vital strategic role in facilitating Chinese OBOR plans, and new developing geopolitical scene once again raises hope for Pakistan, in annexing Kashmir, in collusion with China.

The pattern of Chinese intrusions, and her obstinacy not to de-induct, should be raising eyebrows in South Block. Fresh induction of troops in Gilgit Baltistan by Pakistan must be one corroborative input. Gen Ata Hasnain, sir has already measured it as pincer in making.

Chinese, may be master in deception but shaping threat, cannot be ignored and must be thwarted by counter manoeuvre of strategic forces ASAP, but not losing the balance in East.

International pressures must be brought down upon Xi Jinping to deflate himself, and defuse self destruction mode, that has started ticking.