Losers bound by iron can't become winners, can they?

"Pakistan Army officers are being deployed in the formation headquarters of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) as part of an intelligence-sharing arrangement between the two countries, intelligence inputs have suggested," News18. "A per the inputs, Pakistan Liaison Officers have been posted in the headquarters of China's Western Theatre Command and Southern Theatre Command. The PLA's critical Western Theatre Command takes care of the country's borders with India, along with Xinjiang and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Last month, China had appointed General Wang Haijiang as the new commander of the Western Theatre." "This is the fourth time that the Chinese President (Xi Jinping), who is also the Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), changed the top General since the India-China standoff in Ladakh last year," India Today. On 5 May 2020, Indian and Chinese troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat resulting in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers and about 43 Chinese troops, wikipedia. "59-year-old Gen Wang Haijiang is one of the rare top generals in the People's Liberation Army with actual combat experience. He is a Vietnam war veteran. Of course, the Sino-Vietnam war ended in a military defeat for China." "Historians considering the short border war of 1979 between China and Vietnam have long concluded that the Chinese invasion into the north of Vietnam -- an attempt to exert some control over Vietnamese expansion in Indochina was a military failure. Vastly superior Chinese forces were met with determined resistance by a regular Vietnamese force capable of successful guerrilla tactics. The analysis continues that after heavy losses Chinese forces sulkily withdrew back across the border, never to trouble the peace again," The Diplomat. India and Pakistan have fought several wars, each one of which was won by India, wikipedia. In the 1971 war, East Pakistan became independent Bangladesh and India captured 90,000 to 93,000 Pakistani Army soldiers, wikipedia. "In its article, titled 'Bangladesh and Pakistan -- formerly one Nation, today a World Apart', published on July 30, IFFRAS (International Forum for Rights and Security) described how Bangladesh became a 'miracle story' and Pakistan a 'disaster tale', Dhaka Tribune boasted. "In 2021, Bangladesh's GDP per capita had grown by 9% rising to $2,227. Pakistan's per capita income, meanwhile, is $1,543, it said. In 1971, Pakistan was 70% richer than Bangladesh; today Bangladesh is 45% richer than Pakistan, the global think tank mentioned." "The bill moved in the US Senate seeking to assess Pakistan's alleged role in Afghanistan before and after the fall of Kabul to Afghan Taliban set alarm bells ringing in the upper house of parliament on Wednesday," Dawn. "Pakistan's stocks fell, and the rupee plunged to a record low after the US Senate introduced a bill seeking an investigation into Islamabad's alleged role in the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan. Investors in Pakistan got cold feet as the benchmark KSE-100 index plunged nearly 3 percent, its most since March last year, whereas the rupee fell 0.3 percent to close at a record low of 170.48 to the dollar, on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported," News18. "Russia has stepped up its diplomatic engagement with Pakistan, recognising that Islamabad has some of the key levers to reign in the extremism in the AfPak region," India Narrative. "Miffed by the role of the Pakistani spy agency in handpicking a pro-Islamabad government in Kabul, the Russians have stepped up their advocacy of an inclusive government in Afghanistan, where all minorities in the country, including the ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras are suitably represented in the government. China and Pakistan are, of course, iron brothers, Dawn. If one sinks, it will drag the other one down with it. That's what brothers are for. Especially iron ones.