The law of
unintended consequences can, sometimes, play havoc in the society. The
empowerment of Mr. Xi Jinping by the communist party of China as President for
life gave him added ammunition to tighten his grip on the global affairs.
It is no
secret that Communist China has always nurtured its territorial ambitions. When
it gobbled up Tibet, the world nations looked the other way, including United
Nations. India may be an exception, but the voice of India won’t count at that
time for obvious reasons. Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province,
has always been a thorn in the flesh, and has positioned itself in such a way
that China cannot militarily intervene because of the strong backing of America
and its western allies it has enjoyed
over the years. Moreover, the presence
of American carriers in the vicinity will act as a deterrent and it will be in
its own interest to avoid a military conflict.
To add to
this, Hong Kong, since its handover to China by the British in 1997, has been
creating new problems over the governance of the island as we saw in the recent
apprising against trying the residents in the courts of Mainland which are run by the
communist party. The people of Hong Kong are used to living in a democratic set
up and will not accept any authoritarian rule.
This puts
President Xi Jinping in an awkward position. How does he tackle this? China, in the past,
has been secretly developing biological weapons, as an alternative to military
option, to use against revolutionaries and dissidents who resisted every
movement by the communist party to control their future. In the event of a full
scale military conflict, China cannot hold out against the fire power of the US
and its allies and, if a conflict starts and the use of a nuclear option
becomes inevitable, the first person who exercises that option will have
serious consequences and may be even isolated by the world nations at large to
their national detriment.
Under the
circumstances, biological weapons becomes more effective in that it can destroy
other nations without resorting to a military conflict, just by infiltrating a
virus among the population that can help in the mass killing of the people enemas
and can wreck their economies. This is what was being planned and quietly executed
in the laboratories in Wuhan from where it was, unfortunately, it leaked out
and spread into its own society. The doctor who blew the first whistle also
died of the same virus, the COVID – 19, under suspicious circumstances
China never
thought it will have such a wide repercussions, but it misfired and global
travelling further aggravated the situation. What was intended for Taiwan and
Hong Kong hit their own backyard and spread to nations across the world. The
very fact that China refused the WHO team to visit Wuhan lends more credibility
to this theory. The law of unintended consequences in operation.
