THE ASIAN TRINITY: EAST VS WEST

[Adrien_skywalker]

This is something that I have been working on assiduously since the last two months. This is my second most serious project after 'When it rains, it pours! A Frederick the sixth ISOT!'

The concept is what would happen if the Bangladesh Liberation war were to occur 14 years later on than OTL? Let's say in 1984 instead of 1971. What if India abandoned Non-Alignment and joined the Warsaw Pact? How would the dominoes fall?
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1971 March: West Pakistan launches Operation searchlight, a planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in East Pakistan in March 1971 which the Pakistani state retrospectively justifies on the basis of anti-Bihari violence by Bengali's in early March. Ordered by the central government in West Pakistan,The original plan envisions taking control of all of East Pakistan's major cities on 26 March, and then eliminating all Bengali opposition, political or military, within one month.

1971 April: US consulate in Dhaka publishes the famous dissent note, 'The Blood Telegram' voicing protest against US indifference to the ongoing genocide. Instead, Archer Blood is recalled and US indicates indifference emboldening West Pakistan.

1971 June: The scale of the violence horrifies Bengali citizenry both in East Pakistan and India. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the leader of the Bengali diaspora in East Pakistan flees to India under stringent urging from Indian intelligence agencies who warn him of imminent threat to his life.

1971 July: Indian govt begins to consider the possibility of intervening as the flood of refugees into India is beginning to rise and will soon become unmanageable.

1971 September: The Mukti Bahini and Kader Bahini resistance groups are created, and training of cadre begins in earnest. Indian intelligence agency RAW begins training the guerrillas and they are supplied with weapons and resources.

1971 October: The guerrillas begin their operations and soon major skirmishes are held in the border areas of Chittagong. Fierce clashes are held between them and the Pakistani military.

1971 November: Alarmed by the prospect of Indian intervention, which could jeopardize their chances of using West Pakistan as a conduit for rapprochement with China, US decides to intervene on the side of West Pakistan. US National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger bluntly warns India that Indian military intervention will not be tolerated as this is an internal matter for the Pakistan government. One of the most memorable events in world diplomacy is then witnessed when one the envoys for the Indian side, the youngest son of the Indian Prime Minister, Sanjay Gandhi, who is present in an unofficial capacity calls Kissinger a 'worthless son of a bitch'. He goes on to claim that when Kissinger's people were subjected to genocide, the world came through to help them, and yet when another set of people are suffering the same he was willing to do nothing just to achieve his political aims. He was nothing but a Nazi in another color, Gandhi claimed. The infuriated Kissinger and Gandhi then literally come to blows and have to be pulled apart but not before Kissinger suffers a broken jaw. This cements Kissinger's antipathy towards India and emboldens him to take a hard-line stance against the Indian government and its interests.

1971 December: Informed by the CIA that the Indians would intervene militarily, Nixon takes drastic action and sends three carrier groups to the Bay of Bengal. A flight of American jets publicly bomb a camp of Mukti Bahini in an overt show of support to West Pakistan. Alarmed by this, the USSR sends in a flotilla of nuclear attack submarines in a show of support to India. But by then, Operation searchlight has nearly succeeded and has completely wiped out all dissidents in East Pakistan. Only the remnants who fled to India are now surviving.

With the US carrier groups present, the Indian govt decides on whether or not to proceed. While it was given that India would prevail over West Pakistan, US interference was guaranteed, and the Indian's were not certain that the USSR would risk war with the American's for their sake.

Grudgingly, the Indian govt decides not to go ahead and Mujib is informed of the same. Though frustrated, Mujib realizes that India is being forced at nuclear gunpoint to stand down, and Mujib reluctantly declares the formation of the Bangladeshi govt-in-exile. It is agreed to keep the guerrilla war on-going on a permanent basis to ensure that East Pakistan never stabilizes.

At the deepest level, the Indian govt decides that India must become a nuclear power at any cost to avoid being so humiliated again.

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1972 January: Yahya Khan proudly declares the crushing of the dissident rebellion in East Pakistan. Kangaroo trials are held for the surviving Bengali leaders who were unfortunate enough to be caught and they are summarily executed. West Pakistan revels at the public humiliation of India and celebrations are held all over the country. Yahya Khan's popularity soars to its peak.

The Indian govt takes stock of the situation. The consensus is unanimous. Non-Alignment has failed, and the US has proven itself to be an enemy. Steps must be taken to correct the power balance. The USSR is approached and quietly feelers are sent about the possibility of India joining the Warsaw Pact and Com-econ.

1972 February: Indian govt also begins preparations for scrapping article 370 of their constitution granting limited autonomy to the state of Kashmir which is the flash-point between Pakistan and India.

Meanwhile the KGB learns of the plans of the US to use West Pakistan as a conduit to begin rapprochement with China. The politburo deems such an outcome unacceptable and begins to plan operations to disrupt this process.

1972 March: Sanjay Gandhi flies covertly to Moscow as an emissary from his mother Indira Gandhi, the PM of India. There the details of Indian membership to Warsaw Pact and Com-econ are discussed. It is agreed that India's membership will be accepted, but at Indian request, this is kept secret. Instead, India then places a huge order of military equipment with USSR. Primarily aircraft carriers. The US show of force had forced the Indian govt to realize that without a true military deterrent they would never be respected. The deal is struck for four aircraft carriers to be built for India and to be handed over in ten years. Since the construction cannot be hidden, the USSR will announce that it is beginning to rethink carrier doctrine after the Bay of Bengal actions by the US Navy. But in reality, once the carriers are completed, they will be sailed to the Bay of Bengal as a show of force and then publicly handed over to India.

In return, India will first announce its accession to Com-econ to facilitate trade and begins trade with raw materials and other goods with the USSR. As a consequence, many educated Indian youngsters will travel to the USSR and gain employment in Russian industries. The recent action of the US has soured the image of US as a friendly place of opportunity and work and this forces talented Indian scientists and engineers to look for other sources of gainful employment. This facilitates a huge surplus of brainpower towards the USSR and scientific co-operation between India and USSR begins in earnest which will reap rich dividends down the line.

1972 May: The KGB decides that US plan for rapprochement with China is fast approaching and could happen within 2 months. RAW is informed and a plan to stop it is proposed. As an added impetus, the KGB informs India that the previous prime minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri, was actually assassinated in Tashkent by the CIA to appease Pakistan. Similarly, the preeminent Indian nuclear scientist Homi Bhabha's death too is attributed to the CIA. This inflames the Indian govt, which decides to reciprocate.

1972 June: A Bengali survivor of the genocide in East Pakistan manages to assassinate Yahya Khan with a suicide attack by strapping himself with explosives during a public rally. Yahya Khan, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto are killed in this attack. CIA suspects that this was orchestrated by India, which is true, though no evidence is found. This seriously hampers US attempt to contact Beijing, as Kissinger was scheduled to visit Beijing secretly in the latter part of June. US Plans are shelved for the moment as the situation is deemed too unstable.

1972 July: Protests erupt in Islamabad over Yahya Khan's assassination and Pakistan blames India. Another round of violence against surviving Bengali's erupts in East Pakistan. By now, the Mukthi Bahini has entrenched itself and conducts secret evacuations of Bengali citizens covertly. India rejects the claims of Pakistan and demands proof.

1972 August: Satisfied by the Indian sincerity to the Warsaw pact and its cause, Yuri Andropov begins to draw up plans to impede American overtures to China as it would seriously undermine the USSR. To that extent, he finally conceives of a brilliant plan. To force a Sino-Indian rapprochement before the Americans have a chance to pull China into their orbit. He conceives a trilateral grouping involving Russia, India and China holding all of Asia and half of humanity under their sway, thereby permanently excluding the US from Asian affairs for all time. He proposes this concept to Brezhnev who is electrified, and signals his assent to the concept.

1972 November: The proposed trilateral is vaguely couched to the Indian's who seem receptive, but evince doubts as they are not sure Mao would accept. The Indians signal that they are ready for a rapprochement with China even if they are on the losing end, as they need to secure their flanks against Pakistan urgently. The Russian foreign minister Gromyko assures that he will begin to work on Mao.

Sanjay Gandhi stumbles upon a brilliant plan wherein he proposes a solution to the Tibetan issue. For the last decade, the Dalai Lama was in India after fleeing China, which was the root cause of bellicosity between India and China. He proposes that the Dalai Lama accept the suzerainty of the Chinese over Tibet and surrender publicly to Mao to appease his ego. In return, the Chinese would install the Dalai Lama as a religious symbol and figurehead for Tibetan Buddhists. The Dalai Lama would cede all political power to China and China would permit the Tibetan's the right to practice Buddhism and maintain their culture in return for their loyalty to China. At the same time, India would accept proper boundary demarcations between India and China, and would suitably address Chinese concerns.

The USSR was requested to felicitate this meeting. Gromyko promises to take this to the highest levels of the Politburo where it was approved and feelers were sent to Mao by the Russians.

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Author's note: This will be a timeline on a two-year basis. The foundations of the trilateral are being laid down and in ten years the Bangladesh war will happen with drastic consequences to the west.

 

[Beacon]

Oof this is such a beautiful setup.

Reminds me of the DBWI thread where India was communist and became part of the Russia, China, India triumvirate.

The only issue I see that the Dalai Lama might not be ready to give up his temporal powers so quickly. Giving asylum to the Dalai Lama adds to the prestige of India but not much else.

 

[aap5454]

Very interesting idea! I don't think I've ever read a TL that explores something similar. Excited to hear what's next.

 

[traveller76]

Very interesting idea! I don't think I've ever read a TL that explores something similar. Excited to hear what's next.

I am also. It will be interesting to see how the balance of trade is done between the Russians and Indians.

 

[Brahman]

Oof this is such a beautiful setup.

Reminds me of the DBWI thread where India was communist and became part of the Russia, China, India triumvirate.

The only issue I see that the Dalai Lama might not be ready to give up his temporal powers so quickly. Giving asylum to the Dalai Lama adds to the prestige of India but not much else.

Yeah, I am the one who started the thread for fun but it became quite interesting by the end

 

[Adrien_skywalker]

1973 January: Gromyko meets Mao and proposes a rapprochement with India. Mao vehemently opposes any rapprochement and claims that he will not deal with a defeated foe who is beneath him. Gromyko dangles the prospect of the Dalai Lama publicly surrendering to Mao and accepting Chinese suzerainty. Mao is intrigued, but still not convinced. Gromyko offers to handover Damansky island, which was the main cause of the Sino-Soviet border clash to China as a peace gesture. This is seen as an important concession from the politburo which considers keeping China aligned with them as the greater priority. Gromyko asks Mao to at least listen to the Indian position and then make a call. Mao grudgingly concedes.

1973 February: Kissinger again plans to visit China and there is now an urgency in his plans as the Vietnam war is taking a horrible toll on the US morale. However, Pakistani queries to that effect are rebuffed as the Chinese are busy discussing the joint Indo-Soviet offer.

1973 March: Due to his increasing profile as a troubleshooter and as a foreign mediator, Sanjay Gandhi is formally inducted into politics, and after winning a properly staged but legal election, he is appointed as India’s new foreign minister. As the first official act of his ministerial duties, Sanjay Gandhi publicly announces his intent to reach diplomatic accord with China and requests the USSR to act as a mediator, with the talks to be held in either Moscow or Beijing. This news catches the world by surprise and bewilders the Americans and the Pakistani’s.

1973 April: Mao accepts these talks and insists that they be held in Beijing. India and the USSR accept. Privately, the Dalai Lama is contacted and informed of what is going to happen. He is given a choice. Accept Chinese sovereignty over Tibet and preside as the equivalent of a Pope over the Buddhists of the world or refuse and be handed over to the Chinese. India had its own interests to think of and could not keep on harboring the Tibetan-govt-in-exile to its own detriment. Not anymore. The Dalai Lama is outraged but sees the writing on the wall. He requests that the Indian’s at least make an effort to preserve Tibetan culture and history. The Indian’s assure him that they will try their hardest. Even they do not wish to see Tibetan culture disappear. The Dalai Lama is warned that he needs to be prepared to humble himself on the world stage if he wishes for the preservation of his people and culture. He grudgingly accepts and is kept in a secure location to prevent the CIA from assassinating him to ruin the talks.

1973 May: Andrei Gromyko arrives with much fanfare to Beijing and is received by Mao. A day later, Sanjay Gandhi arrives and the talks begin in earnest. The Indian’s lay out their position in stark terms. They tell Mao that the Dalai Lama is willing to accept Chinese suzerainty over Tibet and will cede all authority to the CPC. The only request is that he be allowed to remain as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists akin to the Catholic Pope, and that Tibetan culture and history to not be suppressed. Although impressed, Mao still vacillates. At that point, Gandhi points out the long history of Buddhism in China and its cultural significance to the Chinese themselves and says that the Dalai Lama is willing to surrender to you in a public setting to assure the world that he has accepted Chinese sovereignty. A mere monk can no longer raise armies once he becomes a figure head. As far as the Tibetan refugees in India are concerned, those who wish to return will return and those who chose to stay will be granted Indian citizenship. After a few minutes, Mao accepts. The lure of the Dalai Lama surrendering to him publicly is too much to resist, since the west has been vilifying him for persecuting Buddhists. With this move, he will position himself as the protector of Buddhism and at the same time humiliate the Western media by proving them wrong.

The talks then move on to the border settlements. The Indian’s are willing to concede much as they are more focused on Pakistan, but there are a few core areas which they are keen to hold on. The Indian’s are willing to cede over 130,000 sq.km in the north eastern territory of Arunachal Pradesh, thereby giving the Chinese a secure land route to Burma and its surrounding countries. They also agree to a rather skewed interpretation of the McMahon line favoring the Chinese side as Nepal acts as a buffer state between the two countries (Overall the split in the border is Chinese 65% - India 35%). In return for all these concessions, China agrees to cede to India the territory of Aksai Chin in Kashmir which was given to them by Pakistan, as Sanjay Gandhi declares to Mao that Kashmir is to the Indian’s what Taiwan is to the Chinese. China also agrees to the accession of Sikkim to India. Considering that he has gotten a lot out of the Indian’s already and at Gromyko’s urging, Mao agrees to the trade off. With this, India now controls two-thirds of Kashmir.

Similarly, the Soviets also conclude their own deals to China’s satisfaction. Thus, Yuri Andropov’s primary goals of retaining China on their side is accomplished.

Then, Gromyko proposes the conceived Russia-China-India trilateral and its ambitions to Mao in detail. Mao is floored, but immediately grasps that they are being offered total control over Asia in entirety. With the three largest nations of Asia working in concert as a triumvirate, the possibilities are endless. The caveat is that China is to reject any overtures by the Americans for any rapprochement with the goals of using China against the USSR or India. Mao assures that he will give it the most serious consideration, a rarity for his part.

The conference is concluded.

1973 August: The results of the Beijing conference stun the world. In front of a gaping western media as well as the eastern one’s, the Indians bring forth the Dalai Lama who publicly surrenders to Mao Zedong. Mao is gracious in his victory, and promises that the Dalai Lama will remain the spiritual figurehead of Tibetan Buddhism. He waxes eloquently about the benefits of Buddhism and its rich ancient culture and its historical importance to not just Tibet, but China and India as well. Buddhism will become the only religion tolerated by the Chinese state due to its pacifist and spiritual nature. Mao further pledges that Tibetan culture and history will be preserved and there will be no efforts made to suppress them. The Dalai Lama thanks him and places himself and the future of Tibet in the care of the Chinese government.

It is apparent to everyone that Mao is indulging in a bit of schadenfreude, specifically at the expense of the western media which has spent the last decade pillorying him for persecuting the Tibetan Buddhists. They are outraged as they are now not able to say a thing to counter Mao's massive propaganda coup, which is now underway.

The conference further witnesses the historic signing of the separate border demarcations between the USSR, China and India. Indira Gandhi, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Zedong sign the articles of the border treaty.

1973 September: The fallout of the Beijing conference elicits howls of outrage and anger in the west. Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon are pilloried in the US press for failing to prevent such a catastrophic threat to American diplomacy. The Indians are denounced as cowards and sellouts and accused of trading away the Dalai Lama and Tibet to China for material gains.

The most serious fallout is in West Pakistan which considers the handing over of Aksai Chin to India as a naked betrayal on Mao’s part. The fact that India gained possession of a third of Kashmir without firing a bullet causes heartburn in Islamabad. It also stokes fear in Islamabad that India could attempt to regain the last part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, and Pakistani military rushes to reinforce its borders.

The US intelligence services are raked over the coals by the senate for failing to detect a confluence of interests between three powers inimical to American interests. Kissinger in particular is blamed for forcing an entire sub-continent into the arms of the Soviets and the Chinese.

Meanwhile, in a further humiliation to Nixon and Kissinger, Mao, Gromyko and Sanjay Gandhi are nominated for the Nobel peace prize for the successful resolution of not just one, but two conflicts. The Sino-Soviet and Indo-Chinese border conflicts as well as the repatriation of the Tibetan refugees.

1973 November: The Indian govt begins a massive militarization program as CENTO now focuses its efforts on the Indo-Pak border. Just as they had done a decade ago with the Mig-21, the Soviets allow for the full technological transfer and licensing of the Mig-27 aircraft to India. Secretly, the Russians also provide know-how on how to create nuclear fission weapons to India and help kickstart the Indian Missile program by handing over the blueprints for the SS-4 Sandal to the Indians. In return, the Indians provide nearly a quarter of all their rare-earth mineral products to the Soviets as well as a sum of 15 billion dollars which is a gargantuan sum for the era. This money is intended to be payment for the construction of the 4 aircraft carriers agreed upon earlier as well as payment for the Mig-27 technology transfer.

1973 December: Alarmed by the growing Soviet transfer of military technology to India, the US starts planning for building a military base in Pakistan at Gwadar port for a naval base. The Pakistani’s refuse the proposal for a naval base but agree to an airbase in Peshawar near the Afghan border hosting a fleet of US aircraft. The US also agrees to sell the F-14 tomcat in large numbers to Pakistan, but does not go for full technology transfer as the Soviets do with India. The Soviets and the Chinese warn the US that an airbase in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir will be Casus belli for war, and Nixon reluctantly agrees to not base US forces in Kashmir much to the ire of Kissinger who warns that it is a mistake.

 

[souvikkundu25140017]

I think it will open up three of them quite nicely. Still I think India provided too much of land. Maybe after Bangladesh is liberated it will join India which will further link India with China.

 

[walmart]

Maybe after Bangladesh is liberated it will join India which will further link India with China.

Too many Muslims

 

[traveller76]

1. What is Iran doing at this time? Will the us increase military aid to them to bolster the Pakistanis?

2. While carriers are important I figure india would be more interested in submarines.

3. Will the Russians provide tractors and equipment to help india's agriculture?

4. Also, Indian cinema was very popular in Russia and the eastern bloc. I figure it will increase even more now.

 

[Adrien_skywalker]

1. What is Iran doing at this time? Will the us increase military aid to them to bolster the Pakistanis?

2. While carriers are important I figure india would be more interested in submarines.

3. Will the Russians provide tractors and equipment to help india's agriculture?

4. Also, Indian cinema was very popular in Russia and the eastern bloc. I figure it will increase even more now.

1. What is Iran doing at this time? Will the us increase military aid to them to bolster the Pakistanis?
The Shah will be nervously watching Pakistani government rise in prominence vis-a-vis his country. Added to it are the cultural and religious differences between the two nations, and he will not be as accommodating and the US will have to placate him substantially leading to unintended consequences.

2. While carriers are important I figure india would be more interested in submarines.
It is more of a psychological knee jerk reaction to seeing three carrier groups invading the Bay of Bengal. Considering the very huge coastline they have to defend, they will go all in for developing their navy.

3. Will the Russians provide tractors and equipment to help india's agriculture?
Yes. The Indian green revolution and milk revolutions will happen making India self-sufficient in food production.

4. Also, Indian cinema was very popular in Russia and the eastern bloc. I figure it will increase even more now.
India will position itself as the soft power face of the triumvirate, so it will increase. Very much.

 

[souvikkundu25140017]

What is the future plan of multi bahini? I do not think they are happy with Pakistan but how they view India. Also what long term of the plan of India regarding them?

Also, I think in this situation India willing to hand over parts of Arunachal but not that much. Maybe 50000 or 60000. Any reason why it is so high? I thought India will huggle a bit more.

 

[Adrien_skywalker]

1974 January: As part of the new trilateral grouping, a think-tank of economists and other experts are set up to think of ways to exploit the potential of trade and commerce between the three largest nations in Asia. The group is based out of Bombay which is the trading hub of India. While the RIC is informally in existence, no formal declaration of the group has been made, and on surface India still retains its premier position in the NAM. The popular social democrat and finance minister of India, Yashwantrao Chavan, chairs the group.

1974 February: Pakistan downgrades its relationship with China over its handover of Aksai Chin to India, which it considers a grave betrayal on China's part. Mao, on the other hand, ignores it as he is busy in consolidating the border gains from Northeastern India, which has given China a clear route to Burma and its neighboring countries.

There is some dissatisfaction in Indian govt circles that India gave up too much for too little. While the return of Aksai Chin is lauded, there is some grievance over the lost areas in Arunachal Pradesh. But it is outweighed by the fact that peace has finally been achieved with China with the bonus of severing its relationship with Pakistan, as well as the settlement of the Tibetan issue. The cost of hosting the Tibetan refugees was a considerable drain and the added flux of refugees from West Pakistan was not helping. That strain is now reduced. As far as trade with Burma is considered, it was negligible, and they still were on the opposite sides of each other in the Bay of Bengal, so while land connectivity was reduced but not lost, oceanic connectivity was still present in full.

In the USSR, there is relief that American approaches to China have been blocked, and considerable satisfaction that the third Asian giant, India, has been pulled into their orbit. This is considered a massive coup and Brezhnev's position is solidified further.

1974 March: The US starts considering imposing economic penalties on India for siding with the USSR and China. Discussions on raising tariffs for trade is seriously considered. The UK also begins considering possible actions under pressure from the US.

1974 May: The RIC trade group after four months of consultations produces a blueprint for a potential trade zone in Asia, modeled after the ancient silk road and envisions a network of roads and railways built all over Asia, over the next decade to facilitate the movement of goods and materials over the entire continent. A preliminary proposal is drafted and submitted to the three nations.

1974 October: The PRC invites the leaders of the USSR and India for the 25th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. In reality, this is a smokescreen for the three leaders to discuss the proposals from the RIC trade think-tank.

At the meeting, the proposals are presented. However, the economists warn that the project is at severe risk as the western Bretton Woods system is prevalent in the global financial system and it can be easily tweaked to harm the economies of the three countries via currency manipulation, exchange rate manipulation and fiat currency rules.
Asked by Mao for a solution, the economists propose that the eastern nations adopt their own monetary system. Since Nixon's abandonment of the gold standard three years ago, and the current process of abandoning capital controls in the US, it was evident that the US would be moving from a state led to a market led system. This meant that the Bretton Woods system in its original form was dead and would soon be replaced by something else; and the eastern nations had no reason to be subservient to western ideas any more.

The three leaders agree that the positions of the economists are valid, but are at a loss on how to proceed. Liberalization of markets was still a sensitive area for the three nations. At that time, the first vice-premier of China, Deng Xiaoping, proposes that the three nations adopt a socialist market economy or to put in fanciful terms 'Economics with socialist characteristics.' A planned and carefully guided path to economic liberalization, but with the states retaining full control and oversight. Deng insisted that with proper planning and implementation, all three partner nations would see a collective growth.

The three leaders agree in principle and a formal agreement is reached to set up a collective economic grouping, to define and come with reform proposals that can be universally adopted across the three nations, but modified to suit their individual national concerns and interests. They are given a time line of one year to come together with a formal plan.

1974 November: Informed by its various sources in the three countries, the CIA learns of the existence of this secretive economic group. Although their aims and goals are still secret, the very existence of such a grouping raises alarms at the highest level in Washington. Plans are made and CENTO begins to gain more prominence in the eyes of the US government.

1974 December: The alarmed reactions of the US ironically warn the KGB that their operational security has been penetrated. To prevent the secrets of the economic group from being penetrated by the CIA, the decision is made to host the entirety of the group and its staff in China until their work is completed, as China is considered to be very hard to access for the CIA as compared to India and the USSR. And seeing that the Chinese first Vice-Premier is the head of the group, it makes sense to host this group in Beijing.

Mao, who is informed of the threat, flips his lid, and in his usual overbearing way has the entire group situated right in the middle of a PLA army base to ensure stringent security. Andropov jokes that not even Stalin was provided with such security, even during the World War.

 

[Beacon]

Later down the line -

China: No, they'll expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.

Russia: Have we started the fire?

India: Yes, the fire rises.

 

[Changundramon]

I assume the Asian Trinity will be hostile to Japan, on wishes of China?

 

[souvikkundu25140017]

Have you thought of doing some joint cultural missions? Maybe trinational universities? Also a unified educational system to simulate further cooparartion?

Maybe a a rebuilt nalanda as a peace token from China? Use it as premier university?

 

[SolRon]

Would this triumvirate match the western bloc economically and militarily in the long run? If so, that would lead to a very interesting situation.

 

[Adrien_skywalker]

Would this triumvirate match the western bloc economically and militarily in the long run? If so, that would lead to a very interesting situation.

They are basically planning on mirroring Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms wholesale over USSR, China and India simultaneously. And they are working out the equivalent of the Belt and Road initiative 3 decades earlier, and this time it is protected by the full might of the USSR in its prime before the Russians waste away in Afghanistan.

If the Silk road gets rebuilt, US Naval obstruction to sea based trade becomes irrelevant as the whole of Asia will become their backyard.

And yes, it will happen. The scales need to be even on both sides, after all.

 

[souvikkundu25140017]

They are basically planning on mirroring Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms wholesale over USSR, China and India simultaneously. And they are working out the equivalent of the Belt and Road initiative 3 decades earlier, and this time it is protected by the full might of the USSR in its prime before the Russians waste away in Afghanistan.

If the Silk road gets rebuilt, US Naval obstruction to sea based trade becomes irrelevant as the whole of Asia will become their backyard.

And yes, it will happen. The scales need to be even on both sides, after all.

Any reply for my question?

 

[Adrien_skywalker]

Have you thought of doing some joint cultural missions? Maybe trinational universities? Also a unified educational system to simulate further cooparartion?

Maybe a a rebuilt nalanda as a peace token from China? Use it as premier university?

There will be a cultural symbiosis of sorts. But it will be on the lower scale of the priorities for the decade. Their immediate goal is to finalize the alliance and ensure its stability so that the US can't wreck it.

 

[Eldritch Po l i t b u ro]

This looks like a promising ATL