By Nirmal P. Acharya
The US is currently engaged in a fierce battle with Putin, using the old strategy of World War I and World War II, lighting the flames of the Eurasian continent, and then deducing the following four steps: watching the fire from the sidelines, selling arms to both sides in the war, entering the war in a timely manner, and harvesting the fruits of the war.
This time, however, Putin is determined not to let the American war tetralogy play successfully. From Belgrade to Tripoli, while, NATO became a platform for political agendas and weapon sales for the Americans rather than a military alliance, instead of safeguarding from war, NATO seems poised to perpetuate a cycle of conflict and destruction.
After Western threats to support Ukraine against targets on Russian territory, Putin sent a fleet to Cuba and then made surprise visits to North Korea and Vietnam. This shows the strategic consideration of Putin’s determination to be close to the US, close to the West coast of the US and close to the East coast of the US.
These actions indicate that Putin has adopted a counter-defensive strategy against the US. This will encourage America’s rivals, large and small, to adopt a similar offensive posture. At least Iran, Hamas, the Houthis, Hezbollah, North Korea, Belarus, and others are adversaries of the US. And behind them stands China, the world’s most powerful industrial nation.
China will certainly adopt the same strategy as Putin’s, which is to try to avoid the outbreak of war in and near its territory. If China cannot avoid a war, it must keep the battlefield as far away from itself as possible and as close as possible to the US.
Therefore, China only deterrence and containment Taiwan’s independence forces, but does not carry out military strikes. In the South China Sea, where the dispute is being provoked by the US, only cold weapons such as axes and harpoons were used against the Philippine army.
China’s series of missiles, commonly known as Oriental Express, as well as aircraft carriers and 055 large destroyers, must be prepared for distant places. I can’t wait to imagine China expanding their military bases in South America and asking countries to voluntarily let place a few missiles and do some training together.
So the MCC landed in the southern Himalayan foothills just in time. Although the MCC was officially announced by the US as part of the Indo-Pacific strategy, the eyes of the Chinese leadership, like the eyes of Putin, are currently looking somewhere far away, and the MCC is too close to China to be the focus of China. MCC should take the opportunity to get it up and running quickly.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.
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