Quoting a one off item is. But if you have to look at a whole gamut of items for maintaining a paticular standard of living then it's not so silly and possibly a better yardstick to judge SOL.
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China was placed on the security council with veto power because China was part of the big 5 victors in WW2. As the colonel said, that was the KMT China, not communist China. Communist China was recognized by the world in the 70s, I believe. That's when the security council seat and the veto power went from KMT to the commie China today.
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Oh please..China was not a great WW2 victor. Thats not the reason it's on the veto council. Indian soldiers who fought WW2 as a voluntary army though under Brits in North Africa, Burma, Flanders, Italy contributed very significantly to the defeat of the fascist war machine. Graves of tens of thousands of our soldiers are testimony to that effort in Western Europe and North Africa.
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We should dilute our own power why?
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Yes that makes sense. The clique of the UNSC sits as P5 preventing countries like India having a say. It gives them sole rights to international prestige and power and a say to poke, nose and meddle in other peoples affairs. Thats the reason India would rightly never sign the NPT.
The G4 was an attempt to try and change the UNSC structure to make it more representative and democratic. It failed. But from here onwards the UN will become lesser and lesser relevent. Already slowly opinion is building in countries like India and Japan that being a part of this organization is moribund. Maybe we can try building another trans national organization with more credibility than the UN is. I'm sure the time will come for that or the UN has to reform. No choice either way.