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The Silk Road

daedong

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Can India and China really get alone with each other? There is so much inherent dislike for each other that goes back yonks. While its admiral the effort that both nations are putting into their development over the last few years you must wonder if it will all end in a big bang.
Whats your thoughts?


http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...le&cid=1151878208364&call_pageid=968332188492
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Calcutta—As India and China prepare to reopen a Himalayan pass on the legendary Silk Road trade route between East and West this week, some Indian military experts warn China could use the pass to extend its spy network deep into India."
 
It sounds like it would be good for economic reasons, but increasing the border security problem? I just don't get it.

There, as in the Canada/US, and the Mexico/US borders, there are vast areas that raise the question as how to enforce the security. If either country wanted to spy on each other, does it make a lot of sense to think that the bad guys will not bypass the security checks? An example, Here in the US, there is a section of our country between the states of Minnesotta and Washington, that gets pretty rugged, and, IMO, impossible to enforce. Now, when your talking about India/China border, I think it would be the same.
Seems if they're going to spy on each other, it would already be a problem, and I can't see how opening one road would make a difference.
Maybe the military has an alternate motive, drug trade maybe?:burp::burp::tiphat:
 
johnday said:
It sounds like it would be good for economic reasons, but increasing the border security problem? I just don't get it.

There, as in the Canada/US, and the Mexico/US borders, there are vast areas that raise the question as how to enforce the security. If either country wanted to spy on each other, does it make a lot of sense to think that the bad guys will not bypass the security checks? An example, Here in the US, there is a section of our country between the states of Minnesotta and Washington, that gets pretty rugged, and, IMO, impossible to enforce. Now, when your talking about India/China border, I think it would be the same.
Seems if they're going to spy on each other, it would already be a problem, and I can't see how opening one road would make a difference.
Maybe the military has an alternate motive, drug trade maybe?:burp::burp::tiphat:
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John it's too late. Us Canucks are well into our invasion:

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Oh, and Happy Fourth of July! Of course, no one offered up a Happy Canada Day around here so I'm not so sure I should be so forth coming! <sniff , sniff >
 
PB, you sly dog!!! Now I know why it's harder to return to the states, than it is to leave. They must have been looking for "illegal funnelheads" under my truck!:yankchain::yum::burp::tiphat:
 
I can only see this as a positive step to less hostilities in this region. Each country will actually benefit from the easier trade and probably become even closer in forming a trade alliance and greater trust of each other by having the pass open.

The military will always be concerned about security as that is their job. Spying is going to happen with or without this road being open. The nature of humans and countries is to distrust those they do not understand.

Both of these countries are, or will be economic giants. I actually worry about an alliance of the two and what it may do to the rest of the worlds economy. They could control the destiny of the rest of the world. They are both sleeping economic tigers.
 
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