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The difference between India and China? Attitude

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Ramananda Sengupta, India, China, TopNews
But then the classic security dilemma kicks in: Even when a nation enhances its military capability in a defensive mode, its neighbours - and depending on the extent and nature of the capability, the rest of the world - feel threatened, and take countermeasures.

In other words, regardless of intentions, capabilities are a threat.

No one doubts China’s increasing economic might, and bar some major crisis, it is expected to become the world’s largest economy over the next couple of decades. It is also a nuclear weapons state, and allocating huge budgets for its military.

A candid discussion I had with a young Chinese scholar and journalist at an editor’s conference in Jakarta a couple of years ago, however, was informative.

After stating that China would consider a war only if its core interests were threatened, he went to argue that the United States was, and would continue to remain, the dominant military power for a long time. He also said conventional warfare, where you captured, secured and eventually administered "enemy territory" was becoming increasingly redundant. After a brief discourse on asymmetrical warfare, he asked: Have you seen Die Hard 4?

This is a movie where a criminal group hacks into the American power and electronic systems, cutting off power and disrupting everything from traffic signals to the stock market’s network.

Image: International poster of the Die Hard 4.

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