Hari Sud’s International View

  US and Its Past Blunders Resulted in the Current Mess. Now the current situation in Asia/Middle East/ South China Sea / Afghanistan dictates that US reassess its foreign policy dealings. The humiliating defeat of US in Afghanistan (after a similar defeat in Vietnam in 1975) should force a rethink in their Whitehouse and the State Department. That Cold War of fifties to eighties with Soviet Union ended with US coming on the top. Then came the policy of appeasing China to back stab Russia. The whole concept was that to build China in the east with military might, when US confronts Russia (still a power) in the west, squeezing it in between. In the process to appease China, they gave away everything……money, technology and manufacturing. All that did not work well. China instead of confronting Russia began confronting US. They wanted US out of China Sea completely abandoning Taiwan, Japan and other countries. When this was happening, US picked up a fight in Iraq for no good reason. T...

  Published  in India Defence  Forum : -     May 2 , 2021   Why is the United States afraid of the Chinese? Biden presidency is bad for Russia, but US is afraid of China, hence unable to confront it on the issue of domination, China has achieved in North and South China Sea and its uncalled for effort to dominate Himalayas. For me the writer an old hand in international diplomacy, it is clear that the relations of the United States and China are dominated by the profits and the numbers of the Wall Street. The US is so dependent on profits and the Wall Street that all principles of democracy, human rights and freedom are put aside. Now all kinds of rhetoric  are  being belched out from Washington, both from official and unofficial sources to let China know of its displeasure but nothing concrete has been done. This means that actions do not correspond to words. The United States is unlikely to win here. The winner is the Chinese. They have become a...