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  • Han Imperialism and Hindu response

    Han Imperialism and Hindu response

    The recent (Nuclear Suppliers’ Group) NSG snub from China in Seoul should wake up the sleeping diplomats in the Foreign Ministry on who they are up against in the global affairs. India needs to start acting like a big boy in the big boy’s club now given that it has rattled so many feathers. The article below is reproduced from Vajrin’s blog to look at how India can go up against the mighty dragon when the battle lines are clearly drawn.

    Hindus seem to have lost their ability to do a strategic analysis of the global scenario and position themselves accordingly. Or rather, the Hindu masses are selecting such ‘leaders’ who certainly do not have any ability to do some critical thinking. Or rather, it has become a vicious cycle – the masses select dumb, self serving ‘leaders’ who in turn ensure to keep the masses in their pockets by using various ‘schemes’ which are not about strengthening the nation but retaining the vote banks.

    The current geo-political scenario seems to be a treacherous sea which India is trying to sail across without a proper ship, compass or sailors. The Hindu land is surrounded by adversaries. Islamic threat in the west and east, Hans are in the north, and the Theravadins in Lanka have anti-Hindu strain. There is a Han-Islam-Theravadin circle around the Hindu land.

    While China has allied with our enemies and is creating a ring of fire around us, the Hans have enemies on her borders. Japan, Vietnam and Philippines are our natural allies against China. China has trouble in its western borders as well. India could leverage this position to forge an alliance with a majority of states in the ASEAN and Far East.

    But such an alliance is not enough. DRDO must be strengthened in India. The string of failures must be corrected. Any country needs strong domestic military industry complex in order to fight wars. We cannot survive wars based on ammunition imported from Israel or Russia.

    We must start engaging the ASEAN Buddhist nations more vigorously and conduct joint military exercises with them. We must also try to get a greater foothold in Africa and Central Asia. While we may not be able to counter China’s economy singlehandedly, we can form joint ventures with other countries to take over the African assets that Chinese are interested in. To hold a strong grip over Chinese energy supply must be a primary aim of Hans’ adversaries.

    The primary circle against China shall be the border states of China apart from those of the Mekong basin. The secondary line shall involve Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. The third line shall include the NATO and its allies.

    An excessive crackdown on Uighurs can also be used to bring Islamic nations against Chinese. While Islam is our other major enemy, we can still work together to defang the Chinese giant.

    Huntington rightly noted that India/Hindu civilization plays the role of a mere swing state in the current circumstance. Destruction or even a strong containment of Han imperialism will open the doors for a more prominent India much more easily as well. Containment of Hans must be a primary motive of the Hindus apart from defending against Islamic aggression. But will the Hindus ever wake up to this reality?

    The article was first written at Vajrin’s blog and you can follow the authors @Rjrasva and @dasyavevrka.

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    http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/indias-nsg-application-likely-to-hit-roadblocks-on-june-9-2836938/

  • Shun No Varuna- India’s maritime security

    Shun No Varuna- India’s maritime security

    How to draw maritime boundaries is as much a long standing legal battle on paper as it is in real water and has an interesting history. I’ll give you the gist of the current issues especially in the wake of a rising China and its growing list of maritime disputes.

    As per international law, every nation can claim territorial water and an Exclusive Economic Zone. There is a legal provision that allows a country to have its EEZ extended by making a formal application to the international body, which in turn recognizes it as such.

    In case of India, we have territorial waters plus a 200-mile EEZ and applied for an extended economic zone. We continue to treat that total area as our de facto zone of control, which the US disagrees with and deliberately runs warships through just to make a point.

    Legally, the US has the right to challenge India in extended waters since an extended economic zone is not the same as territorial waters and it cannot be considered an intrusion or an act of war. But legality is not the only relevant benchmark because the current global order derives its legality from laws written by victors of the Second World War.

    There are many nuances and technicalities within these guidelines, including submerged continental reefs and archipelago baselines. Because ocean beds are uneven and the dichotomy between land and sea is not always well defined, maritime borders are often disputed.

    The same game is being played out in the South China Sea where China is treating the continental shelf as de facto land and then extending their argument from there to claim full sovereignty over disputed areas. Since claims over territorial waters extend themselves into Air Defence Identification Zone protocols, it impacts the control of airspace as well.

    The US allowed a large overlapping claim to arise between China and Japan by encouraging Japan to redefine territorial claims over Senkaku Islands. The article argues that this provoked China to open another front in the South China Sea.

    Essentially all territorial water disputes until now followed the theme of “this land belongs to us therefore the adjacent waters belong to us”. The paradigm shift that China has brought to this equation is: this water belongs to us, therefore the land belongs to us, therefore more water belongs to us.

    Cutting long story short, ‘Freedom of Navigation’ is to capitalism what ‘Freedom of Religion’ is to Christianity. The former is meant to extend western capitalist hegemony and the latter is meant to extend Christian hegemony.

    This ‘challenging’ business has got more to do with geopolitics than legality. The framework for these laws was laid when the US was a rising global power, and the US weakened and subverted international forums once it became the apex power. Now that the world is moving from a unipolar to a multipolar one, the US is again strengthening these laws to make it difficult for new powers to rise.

    Consider the ranges and speeds of missiles these days: 200 miles is only a stone’s throw away. Yet, a warship parked just beyond this distance is technically considered to be in international waters, disregarding the fact that it can hit vital targets in seconds. This is gunboat diplomacy.

    Maritime security, or security and geopolitics in general, has always been given step-motherly treatment by Indian politicians, despite the fact that the fate of our civilization hangs from it. No other civilization shuns their responsibilities like we do. In light of all the vultures who have an eye on India’s maritime interests, let’s Shun No Varuna, or as the Navy likes to say it: शन्नो वरुणः.

  • What Hindus can learn from destruction of Chinese culture by CCP

    From our visit to China, it seems that the Western conversion of Chinese civilisation is over — or at least, it will be in a few years. Going by the rate of deracination in the Chinese people, it seems that the Chinese are fast losing their connect with their 4000-year-old civilisation and are now being reduced to being merely a cheap copy of yellow-skinned Americans who have no culture of their own left.

    Temple of Heaven — marriage and tradition
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    Typical pre-marriage photo-ops in the Temple of Heaven, China

    There is no better way to understand the direction where they are headed than looking at their marriage ceremony and photos. The above picture is a typical marriage photo in today’s China and it demonstrates the Westernisation of China pretty well. Notice that the Chinese have completely thrown out their own customs during marriage along with their traditional dresses, which have now been reduced to museums. The Chinese in the marriage setting are wearing Western dresses and the customs followed in their marriages are increasingly getting Westernised. It is increasingly common these days to see Chinese couples doing pre-marriage photo-ops in Western attire from Beijing to Paris, demonstrating that they have completely fallen to the consumerism and narcissism of the West. Soon, China will look like South Korea, which already looks like a yellow-skinned American state — where the only place you will find Chinese civilisation will be in their museums, with the young Chinese deracinated to the point that they don’t want to connect with their civilisation even on a special day like their wedding.

    What makes the above picture even more telling is the fact that the place where the above photo was taken is the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Even Beijing, which is the heart of Chinese civilisation, could not protect one of its most important civilisational symbols. The Temple of Heaven is a 600-year-old temple in Beijing used by Chinese kings to offer rituals and sacrifices to the Gods, thanking them for their bountiful harvest and for blessing their society. This temple, which was a spiritual and cultural icon of China just 100 years back, has been reduced to merely a glorified museum today — filled with card-playing old people and selfie-hungry young people jumping up and down at the sacrificial altar. Can you expect similar defilement and sacrilege of Rome or Mecca? No one notices how the Communists of China have destroyed hundreds of Pagan and Buddhist temples of China in the last 100 years. Thousands of years of civilisation and history being reduced to mere selfie spots fuelling narcissistic consumer culture. The Western-dressed wedding picture is just the last brick in the wall capturing the fall of Han identity and culture.

    Longmen Grottoes — damaged cultural heritage
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    Defaced statues inside Longmen Grottoes, China

    The Longmen Grottoes of China are another example of the Talibanism of the Communist government under Mao. This is a 2000-year-old Buddhist site where locals destroyed most of the statues inside the caves during the “Cultural Revolution” under state pressure — except the large ones. The large statues survived only because of the superstition of the locals, whose fear that the gods would punish them if they destroyed the statues was bigger than their fear of the Communist state. This site stands today barely surviving, only because of the superstition of the locals. Once again this shows how eager the Communists were in destroying their own past. Recent news seems to suggest that the conversion industry is working on overdrive in China. Given how eager the Chinese have been in destroying their own culture and past, it is pretty safe to say that the Evangelicals will reap a rich harvest of souls from their soul-harvesting programmes in China. With no culture to fall back on, the Church has a much easier job in converting the Chinese.

    One can already see a large number of Chinese people who are starting to use Western names like Peter, Jack, Steven etc. to please their Western masters. Though it appears as an insignificant issue on the surface, it is actually a very important step in losing your own identity when large numbers of people start doing it in your locality. This act of changing names to suit Western civilisation is another example of Western domination of Chinese thought and civilisation — who are all but Chinese in name only. Conversion to Christianity now is only a formality for Chinese people. Also, given how most Chinese are not yet fluent in English, this problem is going to get worse once most Chinese become more fluent in English than they are today. It will only speed up the process of deracination of the Chinese.

    How is it relevant to us Indians?

    The Chinese experience greatly teaches us the importance of rituals and traditions in preserving our identity. Christians and Marxists know this well and that is why they attack our rituals constantly — be it our Sabarimala temple, or be it our Mangal Sutra, or be it our Durga Pujas. Christians attack our rituals like Pongal, Onam and Durga Pooja and want them to be secularised to deracinate us — making it easier for them to convert us to their own rituals. Marxists want our rituals and traditions destroyed, sometimes even masquerading as Hindus (like CPM in Kerala organising Sanskrit and Vedic festivals, or CPM of West Bengal organising ‘secular’ Durga Puja) with intellectual pretensions about how rituals and traditions are backward and hold us back. But the truth is, they understand the power of our rituals and ceremonies much better than we do. They know that if we lose our rituals, traditions and ceremonies, we have nothing to fight for and would be ripe for harvesting by soul vultures.

    So the question is — are we Hindus going to learn from the Chinese experience? Are we going to discard our rituals just as the Adarsh liberals today want? Or should we start preserving our culture by preserving our traditions and rituals? The choice is ours to make. But if you do choose the former, be prepared for our Tirupati Devasthanam, Kashi Vishwanath temple, Thanjai Big Temple, Mahabalipuram Temple and other cultural and spiritual icons and centres to be trampled by the next generation.