The D10

The G-10?

Did China make a major mistake in moving a few thousand troops across the Line of Actual Control into Indian territory?

It seems clear from clips from Indian media that the Indians are now mad as hornets. The one power on Earth large enough to threaten China on land, and now they are an enemy.

Remember BRICS? China seemed to be part of a coalescing informal economic alliance that challenged the G7: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. The league of emerging powers.

Now India seems interested instead in a British idea to expand the G7 into the “D10”: an alliance of ten leading democracies. Britain, Canada, the US, Italy, Germany, France, Japan—the G7—plus India, South Korea, and Australia. The key idea is that together they could meet one another’s high tech needs without relying on any Chinese components. Supply lines thus secured.

Yet it seems to me this might serve as the nucleus for a larger grouping of the world’s democracies; a possible rival for the UN that would actually have a unifying principle and be able to get things done.

One early order of business might be to create a unified health secretariat, to replace the failed WHO. Second order of business: recognize Taiwan, and bring them in as a member. See how China likes that—a suitable response for their effective annexation of Hong Kong. Third order of business: preference for fellow democracies in matters of foreign aid. Fourth order of business: mutual defense pact. Equivalent to NATO, which coalesced to counter the old Soviet Union. Fifth order of business: preferential trade agreement; “free trade.” This could help establish the new, more secure supply lines needed to replace China, and re-integrate the UK into a larger trading bloc to replace the EU.

Taking all of these measures should also create a major incentive for other nations to become democratic.

We may be seeing a new world order emerging.