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"India views China as primary adversary and Pakistan more as an ancillary security problem to be managed," while "Pakistan considers India an 'existential threat' and will continue to pursue efforts to modernise its military and develop its battlefield or tactical nuclear weapons to offset New Delhi's conventional military advantage, the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has said." TOI. Twelve years after he took power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has released a white paper on political and national security, wrote Vijay Gokhale. "The paper is categoric about what safeguarding 'political security' means: Ensuring the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist system at all costs. Planning and promotion of national security across the spectrum must be done from the perspective of maintaining the party's dominance." In 2018, "China has approved the removal of the two-term limit on the presidency, effectively allowing Xi Jinping to remain in power for life." "China had imposed a two-term limit on its president since the 1990s." Xi "has amassed power the likes of which has not been seen since Chairman Mao Zedong." BBC. The paper "effectively implies that the party's objective is to continue being the supplier of global goods while sequestering its own economy and society from the outside world." To cling on to power the Xi needs a strong and growing economy, but "China's consumer deflation extended for a third month in April," as "Factory deflation persisted for a 31st month, with the producer price index recording a decline of 2.7% compared to 2.5% in March." ET. That is putting downward pressure on wages of workers. "Stubbornly low prices on everything from eggs to a hot delivered meal have cut into the profits that businesses make, gnawing at the money workers earn, Everyone has become tighter with money, pushing down prices even more." ET. To make it worse, "China's exports to the US collapsed by 21% in April, marking the steepest decline in years, as President Donald Trump's aggressive new tariff regime forces Chinese manufacturers to reroute goods and reconfigure global supply chains." MC. Since then, the US has cut tariffs from 145% to 30% on Chinese goods while China has cut retaliatory tariffs on imports from the US from 125% to 10%. BBC. However, trade with China is never fair because it resorts to underhand, criminal tactics. "Denmark has issued an alert, only days after the US identified 'kill switches' in Chinese solar equipment. Suspicious materials have been found in East Asian circuit boards destined for Denmark's power grid. The findings have evoked concerns of spying, sabotage, and overdependence on overseas technology." ET. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested former Federal Reserve official John Rogers on charges of spying for China. "Prosecutors allege Rogers handed over sensitive information to Chinese operatives, who posed as students and offered to cover travel expenses to China." WSJ. China is a barbarous malevolent nation and is an existential threat to India, not just a "primary adversary", whereas India is an "existential threat" to the Pakistan army and not to the people of Pakistan. No wonder the Chinese Communist Party and the Pakistan Army are "Iron Brothers" (CIIS). The Communist Party's power is dependent on economic growth. Can President Trump deliver a death blow to the Party? We hope.