It did not seem the army that in 1979 had to retire defeated from Vietnam, a country that he wanted to punish for having invaded Cambodia and demolished to the bloodthirsty Pro-Chinese regime of Pol Pot and the Militia Khemer Rouge.
In that war, the overwhelming numerical superiority over the Vietnamese forces did not reach the Popular Chinese liberation army (EPLC) to impose itself. It seemed impossible to get that infinite mass of Chinese soldiers who had entered the northern provinces of Cao Bang, Lao Cai and Lang Song, especially because most of the local army, which commanded the famous Mariscal Vanguyén Giap, was still in Cambodian territory. However, in a few days the Chinese troops were expelled from the country that they had tried to occupy because the Hanoi regime was pro-Soviet, therefore Anti-Chino.
The image of that enmity between Moscow and Beijing that in the times of the east-west confrontation prevented a powerful Asian alliance, finished being erased in the days of the 80th anniversary of the Chinese triumph over Japan.
It was not the current Chinese army that defeated the Japanese in 1945 who had been occupying Manchuria for eight years, but the Chinese National Army governed by Chiang Kai-Shek, although the guerrillas commanded by Mao Tse-Tung was folded in the offensive against the invasive power that had annexed the part of its territory to which it called the province of Ultramar del Ultramar.
The only war that the current army fought was that of ’79 against Vietnam, and lost it. But the image that showed the world with the 80th anniversary parade of victory in Manchuria, is that of a powerful and perfect army.
Beyond how real that image is, it is showing an Asian order based on leadership, consensus and power, which contrasts with the western disorder caused by Trump’s petulant negligence.
The world is split by a new east-west confrontation but, this time, with the east strengthened by the approach between two giants and the adhesion of other countries with nuclear arsenals, while the west weakens itself because the superpower that used to unite in a block to the North Atlantic, now faces its historic partners and dismantles the military alliance that she had created: NATO.
It was like returning to the 20th century, but through a scene that differentiates it from what the 21st century is showing the Chinese victory over the Japanese, Mao presided over a great military parade in Tiananmen’s square. Xi Jinping did the same, but what he exhibited is an unprecedented military power in Chinese history, with sophisticated armament of his own manufacturing, at least eleven weapons unknown to the world, in addition to a parade of troops that impressed by his robotic synchronization.
To that formidable war muscle sample, he added what was exhibited from the balcony of the leading city door: the Chinese leader flanked by the Russian and the North Korean.
That Xi Jinping chose Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong a to preside over the monumental parade of tanks, missiles, drones and troops moving with a tuning that seemed created by AI, completed the message to the powers of the West: the sum of Russian, Chinese and North Korean nuclear power reaches an overwhelming superiority over that of the United States and Europe.
The message of military unit in Asia joined the message that the previous days had given XI receiving Narendra Modi in Tianjin. Within the framework of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, both leaders staged the end of an old enmity marked by border conflicts in the Himalayas and for Chinese support to Pakistan, the Archioneemigo of India since the birth of both states in 1947.
This economic and political muscle postcard was produced by Trump’s rude error: punishing with lapidary tariffs the purchase of oil from Russia made by the most populous country’s prime minister in the world, which ended up pushing India into China’s arms.
Until Trump applied the 50%tariff to Indian products, New Delhi was closer to Washington than Beijing. That this counterproductive punishment was because India bought oil from Russia, it is absurd if the western leader who has helped Putin most applied in the invasion of Ukraine.
With the exception of India, which despite the Ninduista of Narendra Modi’s extremism still remains “the largest democracy in the world”, on the Asian path, autocratic regimes advance towards the construction of a united, economically and militarily powerful block, with nuclear arsenals that exceed those of the West.
If Trump maintains his distant treatment to Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, those historical allies of Washington in Asia could be tempted by the formidable dimension of the markets offered by Eastern Giants.
The Kremlin chief showed in Tianjin and Beijing on which side of the Mapamundi is installing the Euroasy power it leads. With Trump in the White House, the world balance decomposes in favor of Asia. The American president is joining what Kissinger had separated in the second half of the last century making the east-west confrontation lean in favor of the West.
Nixon had got Mao and Chou En-Lai to approach the US away from the USSR. In this way the risk of an alliance between communist giants was conjured. But Trump’s negligence is tempting the approach that had been conjured in the 1970s.
Trump may begin to understand that his admiration for Putin and the nationalist conservatism they both profess, is not enough to put Moscow on the same path of Washington.
While in the East the autocracies approach, adding Indian democracy and approaching the most immense military axis that has existed, in the West Trump dynamite the historic alliance with Europe, weakening NATO, in addition to burying the gasoline (commercial society of the three countries of North America) and spoils the almost brotherhood relationship with Canada, threatening that country with that country with annexation.
A western chaos caused without reason, in the face of the economic, political and military muscles of the east that China exhibited.
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