Mirror war crack

Meanwhile, in neighbouring China, allied victory over Japan did not bring peace. By , Mao controlled all of China while the nationalists withdrew to Formosa. As a bulwark against western incursions, Mao signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty that committed the two sides to mutual support in conflict.

China actively entered the war by the end of The armistice that ceased hostilities left the peninsula divided along the 38th parallel much as before—never mind that nearly 5 million people died. There is still no peace. However impatient China may be to outline templates, the one lesson of history is never to claim a wisdom that provides guidance—particularly if we attempt to re-create a past that is linked to the present rather tenuously.

Still, can we today make a strategic assumption that the factors that influenced the Korean War will influence the outcome of the current situation in the SCS? Most importantly, the character of the developing conflict in the SCS is vastly different. This is in terms of the medium within which it is to be fought, technologies involved, social conditions, and other factors that change with time, geography, and adversaries.

This highway links China across the peripheries of Tibet and Xinjiang through the occupied plateau. If a pattern is discernible, it is that China perceives its gnawing aggression to be below the threshold of war.

While these manoeuvres continue as a smoke screen, the focus remains on their strategic centre of gravity: the Indo-Pacific.

As China plays on its delusions of rejuvenation, revision, and world domination, the danger lies in the challenged parties adopting a counter-strategy that is at first over-cautious, and then conciliatory. The history of North and South Korea began as a fall-out of the surrender of Japan in The undivided peninsula for centuries was ruled by dynastic kingdoms with an interregnum of annexation by Japan in An early casualty of the Cold War, the Soviets set up a communist regime north of the 38th parallel.

South of that latitude, a military government was established and supported by the US. The Korean War broke out in Meanwhile, in neighbouring China, allied victory over Japan did not bring peace. By , Mao controlled all of China while the nationalists withdrew to Formosa. As a bulwark against western incursions, Mao signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty that committed the two sides to mutual support in conflict.

China actively entered the war by the end of The armistice that ceased hostilities left the peninsula divided along the 38th parallel much as before—never mind that nearly 5 million people died. There is still no peace. However impatient China may be to outline templates, the one lesson of history is never to claim a wisdom that provides guidance—particularly if we attempt to re-create a past that is linked to the present rather tenuously.

Still, can we today make a strategic assumption that the factors that influenced the Korean War will influence the outcome of the current situation in the SCS? Most importantly, the character of the developing conflict in the SCS is vastly different.