Sino-Indian Detente and Xi's Dismantling of Medog Dam "Water Bomb" Menacing India

China formally demolished its "water bomb" hanging over India, this week: the great Medog Dam:

Medog Dam: Existential Threat to India

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With the Medog Dam dangling over India, no detente between China and India could possibly subsist. Just as the US and USSR had to formally dismantle, under observation, nuclear arsenals under START I, China has formally dismantled her "water bomb", the Medog Dam.

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The Indian Brass required the complete and total dismantling of the Medog Dam "water bomb" as part of further de-militarization policy with China and warming relations.

However, Xi found himself in a pickle: were he to outright cancel the project, it would redound negatively on the Party, not keen on such outright reversals and realized capital losses, especially with the ferment associated with the trade war and escalating physical war with the American Empire.

The Medog Dam proved a massive investment and will cost many Chinese their jobs, companies, and even life-savings - Xi can not suffer further protests and demonstrations about his economic management in such precarious times.

Instead, under the pretext of a "natural disaster" which "fatally compromised the Medog Dam", Xi's government could cancel the Medog Dam without losing face or provoking dissent and internal ambiguity at such a vulnerable moment as Xi prepares for war with the American Empire.

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