Heretical Ideas’ Alex Knapp continues to explore the India / Pakistan foment — specifically within the context of the crisis in Kashmir and the growing concern among some that US involvement in the surrounding regions leave our forces vulnerable to manipulation by oppositionally-minded groups. Referring to a New York Times article reporting on the reaffirmation of a China-Pakistan alliance, Alex asks:

Question: what game is really being played here? It’s long been known that China has hegemonistic ambitions to spread, not only to Taiwan, but elsewhere in Asia, if they can. Could China be aiding al-Qaeda terrorists and others in order to weaken and divide US forces into countless forays in the Middle East and Africa, so they can get a clear shot at Asia?

These questions put me in mind of those post-9/11 reports of that had Jiang Zemin obsessively watching tootage of the Trade Towers crumbling, followed shortly thereafter by reports of a wildly popular government-sponsored “documentary” circulating in China, featuring narration that seemed to revel in the carnage. China’s not to be trusted.

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