The biggest news item to hit me this week has been the utter confusion around North Korea's military aggressiveness and how to deal with it. Obviously I have zero solution for that but what I do want to write about is what the wikileaks findings have brought out and how they relate to this news. There are cables summarizing Chinese ministers talking about how North Korean leadership is getting out of hand and even acting like a "spoiled child". Now, I cannot validate these comments but it is extremely clear at this time that the world cannot continue to just look to America to save them from any countries that go rogue and simultaneously look to America also to take all the blame for any mishaps that this kind of foreign policy might lead to.
China is probably the strongest nation in the world at this time in-terms of what they can do economically and militarily, NOT because they alone can do these things, but because they represent all the under-dog nations that aspire to compete with the US in the future. China is looked at as a blue-print for success and their not taking the initiative to ensure that the world is a safe place, is absolutely timid. China is proving that they have the economic might to compete but, to be a true super-power, the country will need to gain a moral compass that will drive their "soft power" in the same direction that their "hard power" is taking.
Now, many can say that my diatribe here is directed towards China due to some kind of jealousy arising from my country of origin, India, being a close second. But, at this moment, India is a second in a two man race!! India needs to find a way to gain a seat at the highest echelons where foreign policy and the future of the world are being discussed. China has that! China needs to take the next step towards being a "do-gooder super-power". Super-powers of today and tomorrow are not going to be ones that colonize and destroy other peoples ... these are not going to be ones who stand around looking out for their own oil and raw material needs while the African people are oppressed and killed by the same dictators that China is awarding arms to. China has to change the game here. China has to take the higher road and show the light.
It is time for China to start working towards world peace, cause if that's not your goal, then what is?
