India going deep inside Tibet and Chinese going deep inside India will never happen..not capability but intention and objective.
Maybe in 22nd century!
That is most likely the probability - but a wider conflict with China is not outside the realm of possibility.
Musings of my board mind only.
1. in the next 15-20 years you will see China make push to replace America as the dominant power.
2. Will take a couple of decades for that to play out. Asia/SEA/SOuth Asia / IOR / Africa will be the battle ground - Direct Confrontation and Proxy
3. They Will Take Taiwan and their other "claimed territories" - its part of their own mythology that they need to see through.
4. China cannot become the World Super Power without going at India
- India has the potential to be the power in waiting towards China
- India will be the western proxy against China
- India CHina will either go at it via proxy or direct confrontation
- even a short border war will see us do LRRP into the plateau - SFF will need to earn its bread be wrecking havoc behind enemy lines.
- Chinese Proxy will be via Nepal, Lanka, Pak, Bangla
- Our Proxy will be Tibetian, Ujjiar, etc etc
IMO - SOF upgrade will need to be parrellel to everything.