At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, the potentially serious implications of Chinese deception in the guise of soothing words like “development”, “connectivity”, “commerce”, “cash”, “shared prosperity”, “communication” became evident to one and all — underneath which lies the aggression for territory grabbing, building up a trade monopoly, carrying out espionage through telecommunications, the theft of foreign technology and the ultimate threat of gunboat diplomacy!No wonder then that China faced the most undiplomatic, yet direct and unprecedented, personal attack on no less a personality than its “lifelong” President Xi Jinping in January 2019. The world knows that like the generals of the Pakistani aluminum platform ladder Army and its ISI, the Communist Party of China doesn’t believe in equality.

Mr Wang, one of the seven members of the CPC standing committee, its highest-ranking body, told senior officials to safeguard President Xi’s leadership and to toe the party line.When the billionaire financier spoke at length about China, and criticised Xi Jinping’s “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure project as “self-serving”, it was clear that India’s long-standing position on the issue stood vindicated. Shell-shocked, speechless! It could neither deny, nor dispute or refute, nor confirm.. focusing on (the) trade deficit. This single most important factor led to Mr Trump seeking a correction even before he became US President.As is increasingly clear to most South and Southeast Asian nations now, Beijing’s “self-serving” project is being falsely claimed by the ruling Communist Party to be a “win-win” and offering “mutual benefit” for the subservient non-Chinese states. Just turn the pages of 20th century wars in the European theatre in 1914 and 1939.