China's Secret Weapon | Divya Toshniwal |

China has been clearly added to the list of most notorious players in world politics. It has been creepily entering our country and trying to extend its own borders for a long time now. The tiff between India and China has been well known for years but the new developments with the Wuhan Virus have ultimately shaken the entire world, turning many countries and their policies against China. 

China has storage of such viruses (claimed to be for study purposes) but this is not the only weapon that China is using to destroy its enemies and create its ultimate power over the world. Other than bio-warfare China also has a great hold over digital warfare. With Chinese phones and Apps flooding the market, China is holding the key to each of your Digital Lockers. Secretly, it has taken access to your entire phone to let you use some free apps that it provides. This Digital warfare will become a much bigger problem in the future.

China has impacted many economies and led them to their graves in name of helping them grow. Many countries have fallen into the Debt-Trap of China. The ones who are not a part of their Debt-Trap Strategy fall prey to their Market Strategies. The entire market is filled with cheap Chinese products, so much so, that most of the items you buy are made in china. From electric lights to toys, to kitchen appliances, to home decor, to your gadgets. It is definitely killing our indigenous industries but it's also doing a lot more.

Now let's come to the most important weapon in China's Warfare Strategy and I know you might snap when I say that it's You.

You are becoming a part of China's Psychological Warfare Strategies and the changes are happening more faster than ever. I'll explain this claim through a number of examples that I have noted down in the previous few days.

1. Let's start with China Toys flooding the entire market. Before the Chinese toys entered the Indian market, what were the toys that existed? We played with "Lattu" or "Chakri". To use them we needed coordination of fingers and we needed to learn balance. The simplified versions of it work with the push of a button now and to make them interesting lights and sounds have been added to them. The playtime which was once more educational than study time now became a pure waste of time. A source of entertainment no doubt but totally non-productive and parents preferred it that way since they could now leave the kids with the toys and did not have to sit around them the entire day ( which in fact also impacts the relationships as they grow). In short, kids are being taught, from the very beginning about how to pass their free time. 

Solution: Create interactive games for kids. Motivate them to use their creativity and create games for themselves. Do not give them videos to watch just because it gives you some freedom.

2. Apps- For kids who have crossed the age of battery toys, gadgets have become the topmost priority. With a variety of apps and games taking over the market, one has something new to do every other week. The trend of Tiktok videos has people hung to them. People got so addicted to tik tok reels that even when India has banned Tiktok, China is successful in its strategy. We have replacements such as Instagram Reels and hence we still are wasting our time, watching and making videos that actually do nothing other than wasting our time. 

Solution: Find workshops where you can interact with real people. Attend more social gatherings. Read more. Find your interests and indulge in them.

3. Cheap products and fast-moving products to make you keep buying things that you don't need. China is so quick in making and circulating its products that within a week of you saying Boycott Chinese goods, you'll find Made in China T-shirts Saying Boycott Chinese Goods in your nearest market. They have prepared you to buy new products for every occasion and trash the old ones, forcing you to spend more on things that do not matter and weakening your economic stability. 

Solution: Buy things only when you need them not because you want them. Learn a little about MINIMALISM. The word might sound foreign but it has been a part of our culture since forever.

China is making the entire generation less productive and the little productivity we show, the little economic stability we create is being attacked by the need to buy more and have more. We are not being able to focus on what we should be doing for our growth and for the growth of our country and that is China's ultimate weapon against us.