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Read this for a flashback twenty years ago when China’s clout was expanding  https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-flashback-on-chinas-growing-clout-in.html?m=1 Worldwide, people talk of an American dream. If I moved to the US, I could become “American” and my children would certainly be Americans.  But moving to China would not make me or my children Chinese. Would it?   Is there a China dream? NO! Civilizations, Empires and Superpowers The world has seen influential civilizations -Greek, Persian, Chinese, Harappan (Indian), Roman, Islamic, Mayan, Olmec, Aztec, Inca and many more. In modern times Samuel Huntington classified civilizations geographically in his book on clash of civilizations which is as per the map below  Similarly, there have been many great empires and powers like the Ottoman, Persian, Spanish, Hapsburgs, Arab, Mauryan, Mughal, the Tang Dynasty and more. In modern times there have been powers like Japa...

The Trojan Horse The Achaeans battered their heads against the walls of Troy and were continuously repulsed for a decade. The breakthrough came when they used the Trojan Horse to breach the defenses of Troy through subterfuge and then destroyed the city and slaughtered its people completely. That is an old fable. Nothing new. In my opinion Huawei’s 5G is the modern Trojan Horse being used by China to enter the life stream of India to subjugate and destroy it. That is the new story. We need to be aware of this. Well why am I saying this? There are reports that Huawei has been cleared by a set of experts to enter the Indian fray. It is now all set to enter India since it will meet all criteria and will be L1 by hook or crook. If it happens it will signal the end of Indian independence as we know it. There are many aspects to this development which need to be deliberated upon. I will highlight a few of them. Rules, Regulations and Legality There are strict and clear ...

The US- Iran Spat in Brief On 31 Dec 2019, supporters of Iran backed militia attacked the US embassy in Baghdad. It was in retaliation to an US airstrike on a camp of  an Iran backed Hezbollah offshoot group which resulted in the death of 25 fighter’s [1] . USA retaliated by an armed UAV attack which targeted and killed Maj Gen Soleimani, head of the Iranian Quds Force in Bagdad on 3 Jan 2020. It triggered a national outpour in Iran which vowed appropriate revenge. On 8 Jan 2020, Iran fired 16 missiles at two air US bases in Iraq and claimed it to be a slap in the US face [2] .  President Trump tweeted “all is well” .  Reports indicate that the attacks  deliberately missed their targets. Later in a televised follow up address , the US President  pledged not to allow Iran to acquire nuclear capability and warned it against future terrorism or destabilizing actions in the region . At the end he acknowledged that US and Iran had a common foe in IS and of...