India, as a country that has taken advantage of its geographical advantages to vigorously pursue the Monroe Doctrine and hegemonism in South Asia all year round, has gradually become an important part of the US strategy to suppress China in recent years. However, the United States is still hoping that India will make trouble, but China will not follow the American script. The Indians are still increasing their troops on the snowy mountains, but China has long since jumped out of the original chessboard.
A few days ago, on overseas social media, the official account of the Pakistan Navy announced that the first ship of Pakistan's first "Hanguo" class conventionally powered submarine, "Hanguo", has successfully held a launching ceremony at the Shuangliu base of Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry in China. On the day of the launch, I saw that Pakistan's Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Navid Ashraf, had also gone to China's side to attend the ceremony. The degree of attention can be seen.
I looked through the relevant data and information. This time, we ourselves called the foreign trade submarine the "Kirin" class. But on the Pakistani side, it was changed for the diesel-electric submarine "Hanguo", which was decommissioned in 2006. There is still a bit of a gap between the two names. But whoever calls Pakistan is the buyer, he can call it whatever he wants.
There is also a history about this "Hanguo", which is also quite interesting. Wasn't it a diesel-electric submarine in its predecessor? During the Indo-Pakistani War that year, the submarine "Hanguo" fired several torpedoes and hit the side of the frigate "Kukri" of the Indian Navy, and was sunk on the spot. This record is the first time since the end of World War II that a submarine has sunk a warship. Pakistan has specially chosen the name "Hanguo" this time, and I estimate that India may have to wait for a long time.
Now, returning to the topic we talked about at the beginning, why do we say that China has long since jumped out of the original chessboard? In the past few years, along with the close contacts between the United States and India, India has begun to continuously increase its troops to the front line and expand the scale of its permanent troops stationed on the border. As we have mentioned many times in our previous programs, the United States' efforts to woo India actually have two purposes, one is to consume China's sharp energy on the border for a long time, continue to threaten China's border security, and hinder or even undermine China's tendency to build and develop the western region. The other is to minimize China's "punch" on the South China Sea issue and the Taiwan issue. Because China always has to guard against possible movements of India in the southwest, whether it is the size of the army, military equipment, or ammunition reserves, it must make reservations. We cannot go all out to open up the situation in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
That being the case, we are selling conventional submarines to Pakistan in an attempt to pose a threat to India at sea in the future? That would be too superficial. At first glance, it seems that we are arming Pakistan to contain India by military force. But the purpose behind it is to increase the opening of "bloodletting" for India.
India itself has financial problems. The process of industrialization has been implicated by the global epidemic and the global economic crisis, and India is now using a lot of money, one is to stimulate economic development, the other is to catalyze industrial construction, in addition, military spending has begun to become a large head. It is necessary to spend a lot of money to suppress various countries in South Asia and maintain hegemony. And to spend money, to invest in military spending and infrastructure on the border, to guarantee U.S. support for India. Now, China has bolstered Pakistan's maritime power. It is equivalent to the fact that the already stretched finances need to have one more opening for military construction at sea. For India, this would be a very dire situation. If you are not careful, you are likely to lose all the games.