a missile defense system can’t protect you

against your own hypocrisy!

Hi, welcome to China Uncensored,

I’m your host Chris Chappell.

The Chinese Communist Party is furious!

Again…

To be more specific,

the Chinese regime is furious about THAAD,

or Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.

That’s the system the US is installing in South Korea

that will protect them from

a North Korean missile strike.

The only thing I want to emphasize

is that we resolutely oppose the deployment of THAAD

in South Korea.

How dare the United States

try to help protect its ally

from a rogue regime’s nuclear weapons...

...that it was able to develop because of support

from the Chinese regime.

I mean, it’s not like China is going around building

missile defense systems for other countries.

Oh.

So apparently, China is helping Pakistan

build something similar to THAAD,

called LOMADS.

LOMADS stands for

Low-to-Medium Altitude Air Defense System.

LOMADS also describes how the Chinese regime

feels about THAAD,

a low level of constant mad.

LOMADS is capable of tracking

and destroying targets that—

you guessed it—

fly at low to medium altitudes.

Let’s just hope those made-in-China rockets

don’t explode prematurely,

like those Chinese watermelons.

So why is China helping Pakistan

build a missile defense system?

Because India.

Well, not only India.

But according to this Congressional report,

Beijing has long exploited the longstanding rivalry

between India and Pakistan,

aiming to keep India so preoccupied

with its western neighbor

that it will not have the ability to mount

a serious challenge to China’s power and influence

in Asia.

That’s also one of the reasons why China

helped Pakistan build its first nuclear bomb,

as well as Pakistan’s indigenous

ballistic missile capability.

You see, China and India don't really get along.

It's kind of like when you have that one

next-door neighbor that you dislike

because he's harboring a certain spiritual leader

in his house,

after that leader fled your house

that was really kind of his house

that you liberated from him.

Also, you and this neighbor

briefly went to war over who owns the big oak tree

that grows in the middle of your shared property line.

But more importantly,

India has the potential to be

a major economic rival to China.

India’s GDP is growing rapidly.

It recently even surpassed Great Britain.

Which is a delicious irony—

if you’re not from Great Britain.

India, like China,

has a huge population,

around 1.2 billion people.

But India has a distinct advantage:

India’s population is mostly young,

while China’s is aging rapidly.

And that’s why, boys and girls,

brutal population control is not the best

long-term policy.

Anyway, China has been undermining India

in a variety of ways.

They’ve sent nuclear submarines

into the Indian Ocean.

And more recently,

China blocked a motion

to add a Pakistani terrorist leader

to a UN Security Council Blacklist.

India, for its part,

hasn’t let China’s actions go unnoticed.

They’re seeking a 2.5 billion dollar deal with Israel

for their own missile defense system.

The Indian one will be called LRSAM,

which is based on the Israeli one called SPYDER.

C’mon Israel!

That is really stretching the acronym thing.

Although I guess it is the only one

that's an actual word.

At the end of last year,

India also purchased a Russian-made missile defense system

that will be delivered by 2020.

It’s called the S-400 Triumf.

Which is not an acronym at all.

It’s just what you get when you ask a first-grader

to spell a word they've never heard before.

But it’s still pretty impressive.

Look at the long list of missiles and aircraft

this Russian-made missile system can shoot down…

Wait a minute,

those are all American planes!

Ohhhh, Russia!

Anyway, India is building up its missile defenses.

For many observers, this is understandable,

because India has had several wars with Pakistan.

Just like it’s understandable that South Korea and the US

are building THAAD

because North Korea has threatened to turn Seoul and Washington

into a heap of ashes.

Which is a totally stupid threat.

It should be “heaps of ashes,” plural.

Obviously Seoul and Washington would be

two separate heaps.

Anyway, while China is helping Pakistan

build a missile defense against India,

China is hypocritically complaining about the US

helping South Korea build a missile defense

against North Korea.

But it’s not just some crybaby complaint.

It’s a strategic crybaby complaint.

As this report says,

China hopes to create the impression that

American defensive missiles,

not China's new offensive missiles,

threaten peace in Asia.

Sound like a report on the current situation

with THAAD and South Korea?

Well, it’s actually a report from 1999.

This has been the Chinese regime’s strategy

for a long time,

since even before I came on the scene.

The Chinese Communist Party has two goals

in complaining about America’s

missile defense in South Korea:

One, to ensure these missile defense systems

can never be used against China.

And two,

to undermine American influence in Asia.

So you can see why the Chinese regime

might criticize THAAD,

even as it helps Pakistan build LOMADS,

while also keeping an eye on India's LRSAM,

based on SPYDER,

not to mention the S-400

Triumf, the Insult Comic Missile Defense System.

So what do you think of China’s concerns over THAAD

and support of Pakistan’s LOMADS?

Leave your comments below.

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