Even as our Prime Minister, Modi has started his visit to China he would have been reminded that the Chinese are two-faced, untrustworthy and hostile by an article in the official Chinese daily, the Global Times. This article accuses Modi of " playing little tricks " against China to boost his own image. " Due to the Indian elites' blind arrogance and confidence in their democracy, and the inferiority of its ordinary people, very few Indians are able to treat Sino-Indian relations accurately, objectively and rationally," the article says. If the author is looking for differences between Indians and Chinese he should look at the differences between Modi and Chinese politicians. Modi is sure to have a few grey hairs on his head while all Chinese politicians have jet black hair because they want to look uniformly similar. Modi is a vegetarian while the Chinese eat anything that moves, as shown in pictures of their animal markets. Their medicine is even worse. Powdered rhino horns and soup of fetuses of pangolins, which are anteaters, are used as aphrodisiacs while private parts of tigers are supposed to increase the size of manhood. Many animals are close to becoming extinct because of their voracious appetites. However, last year the same newspaper called Australia a country " roamed by rascals and outlaws from Europe ". While India has given the world yoga, Buddhism and Gandhi China exhibits an army of terracotta warriors and a Great Wall to hide behind. Satellite images show how China has built artificial islands in the South China Sea, threatening all the countries bordering the Sea. The US is thinking of increasing its military presence in the area, leading to a danger of conflict. The Communist Party is controlled by princelings who are children of the founders of the Party and grew up during the Cultural Revolution of Chairman Mao. They are extremely wealthy and their offspring study abroad, as did the daughter of Xi Jinping. Where there are winners there must be losers, as shown by the spectacular fall of Bo Xilai. Factions within the Party makes it impossible for the leaders to deviate from a set script. That is why China has no friends. The US can lean on Europe, the UK and Australia for support. NATO consists of 28 countries, although some have joined out of hatred of the Soviet Union. Even with so much support the US lost in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. China's friends are the failed states of Pakistan, North Korea and Zimbabwe. India cannot match China in wealth or military power but we can adopt the tactics of a ' thousand cuts ' of Pakistan against India, namely better trade and defence relations with all the countries hostile to China. The global economy is extremely volatile and there is every chance of a serious effect on China's economy. If that happens it will have no one to turn to. We have every reason to be arrogant.
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