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2021 – THE YEAR OF HOPE   Gunners Shot wishes all of you a very happy 2021.  May the  new year bring peace and happiness to you, your family , your friends, near and dear ones.  May it be the best year of our lives. May it fulfil all your hopes . On behalf myself and my entire family I would like to thank many of you for the wonderful wishes you have sent to us for this year of hope.    'Gunners Shot’also thanks all its readers for the fantastic support it has received.  Without such motivation and support, it would not have grown to this extent.  I am happy and immensely satisfied that as the year ended,  the blog has had 1.2 million views  and the number keeps growing.  At times it overwhelms me.  I hope I can live up to your expectations in future also.    The two major challenges faced by the world in 2020 have emanated from China - the Virus and an unprecedented level of aggressive ambition to be numero uno post haste. Both have wrecked the world in more ways than one. While t

EVEN PAKISTAN DOES NOT TRUST CHINESE VACCINES!  THAT IS HOW UNTRUSTWORTHY CHINA IS! In 2001,  I  was working on my  dissertation  during my Higher Command course.  I came upon this farsighted thought of  Deng Xiaoping. He had said In 1984, “  we hope that for at least twenty years there will not be a war, and hope even more for no war in the next seventy years. Then we can have the time calmly to carry out our socialist four modernization's … if we truly have twenty years, thirty years without war, no war in fifty years, then this war has the possibility of being avoided ”. This statement contains China’s aspirations and strategy -  War avoidance as a route to superpower status.  I personally felt that it was a great vison for China. Deng had probably foreseen that the Western powers would exhaust themselves in wars. By the time the West would be exhausted, China would have risen. In 2001, what Deng had said was already coming true. 30 years since 1984 puts you in 2014. The period

OTHER ARTICLES OF THE SAME PLAGIARISED GENRE REVEALING THE TRUE HOLE OF PAKISTAN IN THEIR OWN WORDS  STATE OF PAKISTAN  PAKISTAN INTERNALISING PAKISTANS SOCIETAL FRACTURE PAKISTANI INSIGHTS NAYA PAKISTAN NAYA ANARCHY A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ORDINARY PAKISTANI THE NEW FORMULA  DAWN IN THE DUSK OF PAKISTAN If wishes were horses!   Lt General Ghulam Mustafa (Retd) tweeted this in reply to my article  The State of Pakistan . It surprised me and left me wondering.  Was I shooting in the air to think of Pakistan as a failed and jailed state? Was it a dare?  I was curious. Did some digging. Found out that he is credited with raising the Army Strategic Forces Command of the Pakistan Army. Seems I had touched a raw nerve. Hmm. Need to put things in perspective.                                         Many Pakistanis liked the General’s reply and are still supporting him.  That is fine. After all he must be a popular man and many Pakistanis support their Generals’. However one handle (in the pic

Before you read further I would recommend that you read the background to this article which is available in the links below    THE BASIC ARTICLE : CHINA'S FIVE INSTABILITIES  PART1- CHINESE DESIGNS : ILLEGAL AND COERCIVE PART 2 - TIBET : TANGLED AND HELPLESS  PART 4 - OUTLINES OF A TIBET POLICY  =>    A very  crucial message is highlighted in this picture. If focussed upon systematically , China will be auto contained. So far the world has chosen to overlook them. We fell for ‘One China’ when there was none. We fell for ‘One China Two Systems’ when it was promised and violated. Time to change equations SUMMARY OF PART 1 AND 2   Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Manchuria were never part of China. They were usurped. Occupation of Tibet, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang gives depth and protection to core Han China and enable territorial expansion. Tibet was never sovereign to China as claimed by PRC. Chinese Occupation of Tibet is illegal. Chinese claim on Arunachal Prade