20 Indian soldiers killed on the Chinese border and 5 Chinese killed and 11 injured in retaliation. World War 3 fears have been sparked. What a year this has been so far.
It doesn't help when you've got worryingly bad world leaders in place. Can't see Trump or Johnson pouring water on the fire. The Aussie PM isn't much better. Hopefully the EU and other Asian leaders namely in Korean and Japan can calm it down. If WW3 was to happened I bet Ladbrokes would have given you long odds on it being due to India and China starting it. Lets hope Modi isn't doing this by way of a favour to Trump.
China and India are technically still at war from the 1960s - from the second Sino-India (or Indo-China) war in 1967 (following the first war in 1962) where there was a ceasefire but not a negotiated final settlement. Although stories suggest this time the weapons involved were fists, clubs, metal bars and bamboo poles with nails through them and the fatalities fell from cliffs. South Korea has its own problems at the moment - with North Korea blowing up the building they were using for negotiations.
What we really need is an alien invasion. It's the only thing left now that might bring us all together in a common cause. We've tried terrorism, the environment, a pandemic, and racism, but they've just not cut the mustard.
We know now that the Yanks would refuse to fight because nobody else was paying as much. The North Koreans would use it as an opportunity to invade the south, and we'd just claim we'd got the aliens done.
According to "maths", the rate of increase in the number of Elvis impersonators from his death to the early 2000s meant that 1/3 of the population should be one by now!
So now we're going to have to decide between chicken jalfrezi, naan bread and basmati rice and sweet and sour chicken, noodles and bean sprouts. Chuff me, life's a bitch.
I don't think even that would do it, there would still be enough a***holes that would collaborate with the slimy green monsters.....
