Lingchi will eventually rebound on the Chinese, We hope.

Even after 40 Indian soldiers were killed in suicide car bomb attack in Kashmir, China is still protecting chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed Masood Azhar. Azhar is a protege of the Pakistani army and is apparently a patient at an Army base hospital in Rawalpindi. By supporting a terrorist, who is supported by the Pakistani Army, China shows its friendship for Pakistan. In return Pakistan is taking on a massive debt of around $60 billion for the Chinese to build road and rail corridor from Kashgar in Xinjiang province in China to Gwadar Port in Pakistan. The Pakistani government has approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for loans to save it from defaulting on its international obligations. The US will not allow any of the money lent by the IMF to be used to repay the Chinese so the Imran Khan government is looking at ways to reduce the amount it borrows, although the Planning Commission claimed recently that the debt will not be a problem. Pakistan has long been following a strategy of 'death by a thousand cuts' against India, a barbaric form of punishment known as 'Lingchi', perfected by the barbaric Chinese. The Chinese probably see terrorist attacks on India as a perfect solution. It keeps India weak, the Indian army is occupied on the western border with Pakistan, allowing Chinese troops to repeatedly cross into India in the north, and allows it to imprison over 1 million Muslim Uighurs to prevent any protest against the Chinese state. Following the disappearance of an Uighur musician Abdurehim Heyit, a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said, "The reintroduction of concentration camps in the 21st century and the systematic assimilation policy of the Chinese authorities against the Uighur Turks is a great embarrassment for humanity." Stung by the criticism China released a video showing Heyit in good health which has prompted all the Uighurs living abroad to demand living videos of their loved ones who have disappeared. In the past, China was supporter of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia. Before we get angry with China we should remember that the Chinese regime is even more brutal with its own people. The Great Helmsman Mao Zedong killed over 30 million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward and millions more were killed in the Cultural Revolution. Whereas Mao wore pajamas, President Xi Jinping wears a Western style suit and tie. He has instituted a 'social credit' system in which citizens earn points for good behavior, mainly subservience to the Communist Party. A public facial recognition system allows authorities to monitor virtually every citizen without them being aware of being under surveillance. The only good news is that China's economy is slowing and, hopefully, if things get really tough at home its capacity to make mischief abroad will be weakened. Ultimately a brutal barbaric state always collapses. We hope it happens soon.