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November 17, 2025

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While Ronald Keith makes many good points, there’s reason to feel there’s some he’s misinterpreted. When it comes to China recognising world order, the annexation of Tibet, the invasions of India (1962) and Vietnam (1979), the expressed intention of annexing Taiwan, and its belligerence in the South China Sea, suggests China accepts only a Chinese world order.

Mentioning the percentage of world population without reference to greenhouse gas emissions also warrants review. Emissions from China and India make up 40 per cent of the global output. It hardly looks as though they’re aligning themselves with COP decrees to stabilise the planet’s atmosphere as part of a universal solution to climate warming, or the benefit of their citizens.

America’s 12.6 per cent is equally unhelpful, but then, so is much of Donald Trump’s chaotic administration.

If we’re going to accept a new “World Order”, which is quite an easy position to take, we should overlay it with some political reality, question the evidence and use some living history as a template. Nations will always act in their own interests. China has already buffered its western flank with the Russian alliance; a non-aggression pact with Modi’s India would buffer its southern flank. Ringing any bells yet?