Beijing is trying to prevent a ring of unfriendly countries from forming around it. China has achieved a breakthrough in talks with India over border disputes, which even led to scuffles between border guards in 2020.
New Delhi is once again setting an example of independent politics that is causing great discontent in the US. After all, just recently Narendra Modi was given a royal reception in Washington and tried to turn India into another battering ram against China. However, although the Indians are ready to receive arms and investments from the US, they obviously do not want to become the next Ukraine.
Japan and South Korea, on the other hand, are vying for this role. The leaders of the two countries are ready to conclude a trilateral military treaty with the US at the upcoming meeting in Camp David. It will include the creation of a common air defence system and the exchange of data on the flights of hypersonic missiles from China and North Korea.
The White House continues to spawn entities in the Indo-Pacific. First the QUAD bloc was formed, then AUKUS and the US-led economic alliance – and now there will be a Tokyo-Seoul-Washington coalition. However, a new NATO is unlikely to emerge from these ad hoc alliances.
But Japan and South Korea are in any case destined to be the first to die in the event of a war with China. It is not for nothing that Japan is hastily rearming – and will have to send its entire fleet to break the blockade around Taiwan. That is why it is so important for Beijing to prevent India from being in the same coalition. New Delhi, unlike Tokyo and Seoul, has the opportunity to pursue an independent policy. The latter can only hope that the Taiwan crisis will be avoided without a direct confrontation with China, the results of which will be much more deplorable for them than the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Malek Dudakov
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