A select group of people in China are of the view that Japan, which has been a source of constant humilation for the Chinese in the past, should be nuked and exterminated for good, to end the dispute over a handful of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. The idea has also been put forward by a Chinese newspaper and seems to have quite a respectable following now. The underlying tenet of the nuclear aggression policy could be to set an example to the world, that all claims on Chinese territory, however trivial they may be, would be suppressed by an iron hand. The future superpower of the world deserves to have blood on its hands, and China's experience with suppression has yielded extremely satisfactory results in the past. Economic necessity may hold back China for now, but the country seems to see enemies everywhere, and if it has one less after Japan is nuked into obscurity, one thing less to worry about.
In the other part of the world, the United States and Israel are getting jittery about Iran's nuclear stockpile. The country has been severely ostracised, and punished to an extent that by comparison, even the worst human rights offenders seem to have escaped with a rap on the knuckle. Iran has held out for long, but now the currency has depreciated by 40%, causing mass unrest (which might have been orchestrated by the CIA and Mossad). The country cannot sell its crude oil, is unable to buy rice in return, and has become a global pariah. It seems while the West considers itself mature enough to build a nuclear stockpile so vast, that even 1% of it is adequate to obliterate the world, it has no faith in the reckless people of the Middle East. Paradoxically, it was the US and the USSR who brought the world on the edge of annhiliation on the eve of the Cuban crisis. It remains to be seen if the US would take similar action against China if the country flexes its nuclear muscles. Also, nobody seems to worry about the nuclear stockpile of Pakistan, which the Islamic fundamentalists have been salivating at. Of course, at the heart of much of the pain of Iran lies the insecurity of the people of Israel. The world suddenly seems too small for all of us.
Reminds me of the lines by Piyush Mishra (order tweaked, sorry Mishraji),
Chhut put si baaton mein jalne lagegi sambhalo yeh duniya;
Jaisi bachi hai, waisi ki waisi bacha lo yeh duniya.
In the other part of the world, the United States and Israel are getting jittery about Iran's nuclear stockpile. The country has been severely ostracised, and punished to an extent that by comparison, even the worst human rights offenders seem to have escaped with a rap on the knuckle. Iran has held out for long, but now the currency has depreciated by 40%, causing mass unrest (which might have been orchestrated by the CIA and Mossad). The country cannot sell its crude oil, is unable to buy rice in return, and has become a global pariah. It seems while the West considers itself mature enough to build a nuclear stockpile so vast, that even 1% of it is adequate to obliterate the world, it has no faith in the reckless people of the Middle East. Paradoxically, it was the US and the USSR who brought the world on the edge of annhiliation on the eve of the Cuban crisis. It remains to be seen if the US would take similar action against China if the country flexes its nuclear muscles. Also, nobody seems to worry about the nuclear stockpile of Pakistan, which the Islamic fundamentalists have been salivating at. Of course, at the heart of much of the pain of Iran lies the insecurity of the people of Israel. The world suddenly seems too small for all of us.
Reminds me of the lines by Piyush Mishra (order tweaked, sorry Mishraji),
Chhut put si baaton mein jalne lagegi sambhalo yeh duniya;
Jaisi bachi hai, waisi ki waisi bacha lo yeh duniya.
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