Thursday, March 31, 2016

Nuclear summit or a collection of duplicitous scoundrels?

A nuclear summit is taking place in Washington, presided over by two of the most duplicitous scoundrels in the world, namely Barack Obama of the US and Xi Jinping of China. They are discussing how to make North Korea stop its nuclear program. Japan and South Korea have reason to be worried about an unstable neighbor, armed with nuclear missiles, who can only be controlled by an aggressive, uncivilized China. Will China apply pressure on North Korea to stop its proliferation activities? Not a chance. China has to be legitimately worried about a collapse of the regime and an uncontrolled influx of refugees but its main concern is a united Korea, with a democratic government in Seoul, an ally of the US, right on its border. It is already talking about preserving regional strategic balance and not upsetting the security interests of any other country which is its doublespeak on missile defense system that the US is thinking of supplying to South Korea. What that means is that they will continue with their aggression by building artificial islands on disputed marine territory, by damming the Brahmaputra River in Tibet to steal our water and by producing nuclear armed multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRV, but do not try to halt their ambition to conquer the world. The summit is being held in the US, the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons on innocent civilians. Is the US going to give up its nuclear weapons? No chance of that either. Obama has authorized the production of B61-12 bombs, with the force of 50,000 tons of TNT, at a cost of $11 billion. Obama quietly signed a nuclear deal with China in 2014 which would supply advanced coolant pumps to make quieter nuclear powered submarines. The argument given was that if the US did not supply the technology some other country would. Which other country is capable of manufacturing nuclear powered submarines, other than Russia? If Putin had wanted to transfer such technology to China would he not have done it already? Putin has shown his contempt for the summit by staying away. Bill Clinton waived sanctions on China in 1998 when China promised to stop helping Pakistan in producing nuclear weapons and to help in persuading Iran to stop enriching uranium. We know how that went. The US has signed a nuclear deal with Iran which does not stop its proliferation and Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif has conveniently used the bombing in Lahore as an excuse to avoid questions about his country's proliferation activities. Despite the files of Osama bin Laden showing how the Pakistan army is in cahoots with terrorists why is Obama rewarding it with F16s? Must have made a deal in return for taking out bin Laden to win the 2012 re-election. Is Mr Modi prepared to counter these villains?

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