Eastern Axis

I was having a discussion with a friend of mine.

Let's say India and China were to put aside their insignificant (in my mind, atleast) differences and formed an eastern axis. Would it be able to defer the power of the U.S.A and its allies?

So far, i only have India and China in this axis. Perhaps Iran could join too. Probably never Pakistan, but who knows. Maybe they (Indians and Pakistanis) will wise up one day.

India and Pakistan together as allies?

Originally posted by pikeshot1600 Originally posted by poirot India and Pakistan together as allies? India and China together as allies?

And that, IMO, i both India's and China's biggest downfall. They, in over 3-4000 years of coexistence, had 1, ONE! minor conflict over insignificant territory, and now hold idiotic grudges agaisnt each other....

When the politicians of the old age finally die, we can expect things to change. Not that i hope for the death of anyone....

But, back to the question. Since this IS historical amusement, let's just say, for the sake of argumentation, that India and China form an alliance. Will it be a significat deterrance to the western powers?

Edited by AlokaParyetra

Once again, sorry, i'm going to need some extra time later to post a proper thread....

Ok, arguing if that bth countries terible government (terrible in their own respects) can quit being greedy and selfish and quit tring to stab eachother in the back........

Economicaally wise i can assume that growth would pick up in both countries for a while by atleast 2%. That being said it would destroy indian manufacturing and the chinese software industry.

Military-wise, SE Asia will become cold towards India, Terrorism would probably be flushed out of the area and India would  begin to import chiense arms.

Iran would have a field day seeing this as an opertunity to sell even more oil.

Chinese controlled Kashmir (which they never had any right over) would come back to India, Pakistan will finally give up trying to look the good guy, but still not give up their illegally held part of Kashmir.

Wow, turned out to be a long post after all, did i miss something?