Chapter 923: India
With the magnificent palace standing on the hill of Donsina in the center of New Delhi as the core, the whole of New Delhi is like a radial expansion, and this palace standing on the hill is the presidential palace built in 1929, formerly known as the Victoria Palace, and after independence, it was transformed into the center of power symbols.
The whole building is a traditional palace style, sitting west to east, built of red sandstone, but the hemispherical dome does have a strong Mughal heritage. The whole scale is extremely grand, not only the audience hall, banquet hall, library and other gorgeous halls, but also countless fountain pools, pavilions and corridors, and the Mughal garden built according to the style of the Mughal era is even more revealing infinite luxury, and there are different forms of square gardens, long gardens and round gardens in the garden, and there are all kinds of famous flowers and plants everywhere. It can be described as fragrant and luxurious.
The intricate relationship between New Delhi and Delhi determines the great symbolic status of this building, which represents the supreme leadership of India, in the city.
Indian scholars are still generally discussing the history of Old Delhi, but sadly, if Indians want to study Indian history, they also need to learn from other countries, and the book "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" by Master Xuanzang, a senior monk of the Tang Dynasty, is even the most important witness to the history of Old Delhi.
A famous person once said, "Indian society has no history at all, at least no history that is known." ”
When a country's history needs to be recorded by others, I really don't know how to prove that the country has nothing to be proud of.
The saddest thing is that the history of which Indians are proud is itself a history of shame. Since the beginning of Muslim rule, India has never been ruled and conquered by outsiders. The last period was the annexation of India by the British in the 19th century, and the capital of British India was moved to Calcutta. Until 1911. The city of Delhi was declared the capital again. Soon the British began to build a new city in the southwest outside of Delhi. This in itself is an unforgettable shame.
However, Indians do not think so, the former Victoria Palace, which is now in front of the gate of the Presidential Palace, is the National Highway, which symbolizes the country and leads directly to the India Gate, which is also known as the gate of the Indian Triumphal Arch, but this so-called Triumphal Arch is more to commemorate the period of World War I. 70,000 British officers in the British Indian Army who were killed.
Another shame, but it still doesn't feel like a shame in the hearts of Indians.
On January 26, every year, a huge National Day Parade is held on this road, and imagine how proud it would be to walk past the supposedly invincible Indian army as it walked past the disgraceful India Gate and marched towards the presidential palace, which once represented British rule for more than a century?
Around the presidential palace, almost all of India's government agencies are located, such as foreign affairs, defence, commerce, finance, education, ......
And the saddest thing is. Not far from the center of India's highest authority, only a kilometre or two apart, there are slums, a stark contrast between prosperity and desperation. It's a sarcasm.
In the presidential palace, Modi, the leader of the highest authority of the Indian government and the parliament, has been India's prime minister for six years. During these six years, he advocated a national strategic approach to good relations with the United States. While India has gained great economic and military benefits, it has also allowed India to maintain a neutral national policy of never alignment. began to fall into crisis.
It is undeniable that the United States has given India great help in the fields of economy, industry, and military science and technology, and India has also achieved the perfection of most of its industrial base, but the enemies of friends are naturally enemies, and this cannot be changed.
The United States has always tied India tightly to its side, and if India wants to break away from the control of the United States, it is tantamount to losing what it has now.
All along, the United States has always done a good job in controlling its allies, and it also has a lot of experience. With a firm grasp of the needs of allies, why is the alliance not stable?
And India itself does not want to give up its interests in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Navy is now unprecedentedly powerful, with four aircraft carrier battle groups that have formed combat effectiveness, and a 65,000-ton aircraft carrier that is about to be launched, India's Navy has far surpassed Britain, France, and other countries, and it is just around the corner to become the fourth in the world.
Naturally, the ambitious India will not allow the Indian Ocean to become a backyard pond for Somalia, thinking that the Indian Ocean was its home in the hearts of Indians in the first place.
Over the past few years, India has been competing with Somalia all along, especially in the navy, frequently pulling the United States and some NATO countries to conduct military exercises in the waters near the Gulf of Aden.
However, every time the Indians conduct a military exercise, it is as if they have hit cotton, and Li Lan does not even look at it, and the launching of an aircraft carrier battle group every year is definitely more deterrent than any military exercise.
On the other hand, India has been engaged in the operation for six or seven years, and of the four aircraft carriers in active service, one was sold to them by Russia in disguise, one was given by the Americans, and one was sold to him by the Americans, and the only domestically produced aircraft carrier of about 40,000 tons has frequent breakdowns, and at least two-thirds of the year is spent in the dock for repairs.
The 60,000-ton aircraft carrier, which is about to be launched, was only announced to be completed with the help of a large number of technical and engineering personnel from the United States.
As for the Somali Navy, by this year, there will be seven aircraft carrier battle groups, each of which will be based on nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers as the operational core, with a displacement of 110,000 tons, a large number of unmanned combat carrier-based aircraft, and can conduct ultra-long-distance cross-sea operations. The manned carrier-based aircraft have all realized the fifth-generation carrier-based aircraft.
On the other hand, India's aircraft carriers have so far only been partially purchased from the United States for the Navy's carrier-based aircraft version of the F-35, and the rest are either Russian-made fourth-generation carrier-based aircraft or American-made fourth-generation fighters, with a variety of models, and all aircraft carriers are conventionally powered, and the continuous high-intensity combat time is only one or two days, and a large number of supply ships are required to support the operation, and the cost is extremely high.
Not to mention that there is no way to compare with Somalia in the west, even if it is compared with China in the east, the four aircraft carrier battle groups that the Indian Navy is proud of are weak.
Even Russia, which has always been very weak in aircraft carriers, has launched two 90,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the past two years, and has also come up with a carrier-based version of the T-50 fifth-generation fighter.
On the other hand, in India, the situation of Wanguo brand weapons has not changed, and although the domestic industry has gradually improved, it is not possible to get rid of the dependence of existing foreign weapons on foreign technology in a few years.
Unless India also completely realizes the localization of weapons, there is still no way to get rid of its dependence on other countries, but a glorious fighter and Arjun tank have become a joke in the international community for many years from the technological leadership required at the beginning of the development to the comprehensive backwardness of the technology after the research.
Most of the technology and equipment of India's so-called domestically produced aircraft carriers are actually under the control of the United States, and without the United States, let alone the completion of the construction of the second domestically produced aircraft carrier, it is impossible to say whether the four aircraft carrier battle groups in active service can maintain long-term combat readiness.
However, the Indians also have their own pride, India's economy has grown extremely fast in recent years, otherwise it would not be able to support four aircraft carrier battle groups, and the development of Agni missiles is also very rapid, and the effective range has been raised to the limit of intercontinental missiles.
Another is the population, in seven years, India's population has reached 1.4 billion, becoming the world's most populous country, but the dense population, the average low-income Indians, life has not changed.
Pakistan, on the other hand, has developed more rapidly, and has made tremendous progress both economically and militarily, and although the navy is still only an aircraft carrier battle group, the army and air force units have become on par with the world's first-class troops.
Moreover, presumably India's Wanguo brand weapons, Pakistan itself has a complete military industry, which can provide its troops with the required combat consumption, and Pakistan has also greatly improved its economy.
A few days ago, Pakistan also successfully test-fired a carrier rocket for the third time, and the Pakistan Navy also successfully recovered the parts of the launch vehicle in the central part of the Indian Ocean.
The third test-launch of the carrier rocket can reach the middle of the Indian Ocean, which means that Pakistan is fully capable of reaching the entire territory of India with a nuclear bomb, and India's nuclear strategic superiority, which still exists, has disappeared in an instant.
How can this allow Indians to continue to sleep peacefully.
What makes Indians most unhappy is that Pakistan's ports have also become ports for the navies of China and Somalia, and the warships of the two countries are always docked under India's noses, and even Somalia's land-based warning radar has been built on the India-Pakistan border.
In addition, the remote-sensing anti-missile satellite jointly developed by the two countries is placed in Pakistan's space field, and most of India's territory is also under the supervision of remote sensing satellites. In addition, over the years, a large number of satellites jointly launched by Pakistan and Somalia have always circled the skies over India.
Blocking the shield at the door of one's own house, even if the Indian has a good temper, he will not be able to stand it, not to mention placing a high-definition camera above his head, which is simply too deceitful.
All kinds of behaviors have deeply touched India's bottom line, and it is almost a kick in the door. (To be continued......)