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Chinese Military Buildup
The competition continues more than 1,000 miles east of India’s southern tip at the entrance to the Malacca Strait, a chokepoint that Beijing worries America could use to block its energy supplies in a war over Taiwan.
India allowed the US access to its Andaman and Nicobar islands, which sit at the entrance to the strait, after joint exercises last year. It’s also posting troops there permanently for the first time.
The Han seem to think not only can they frame our policies for us but heavenly mandate is such that the mere hint of friendship with the middle kingdom will confer upon India great largesse from the US.![]()
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idk anon. you may not agree with the way this gentleman framed it but i think he is right on the direction of ties.The Han seem to think not only can they frame our policies for us but heavenly mandate is such that the mere hint of friendship with the middle kingdom will confer upon India great largesse from the US.
Hence , India should keep the boundary dispute aside , recognise what a great power China is & perform the kowtow .
I'm often amazed by people who think they're the smartest person in the room not so much for the way they think & carry themselves but coz they think everyone else in the room is a fool. I've also seen such people come crashing down sooner rather than later from the rarefied heights they inhabit.
Zhongguo hasn't caught on to the fact that while the old isn't dead yet , the young also isn't yet born . When the news breaks unto the Han it'd be too late indeed.
That assessment seems to conclude Trump's not as interested or invested in Indo Pacific as much as the Biden administration was.idk anon. you may not agree with the way this gentleman framed it but i think he is right on the direction of ties.
if your goal is securing your shipping in the indian ocean the math is simple from their perspective
USA is their primary enemy
It seems everyone and their kutta has a militia working for their NatSec.
Indian govt must start with uyghur,tibetian and other antichina mujhahideenIt seems everyone and their kutta has a militia working for their NatSec.
We don't build our own in any significant number. Why should we be the only ones who keep risking our well trained soldiers to put down what are basically low quality cannon fodder.
Refusal of the government to start forming serious militias with outlined agendas has been costing us dearly and will continue to unless the government decides to fix this issue.
View: https://youtu.be/9mHEflD7U5s?si=aexWmpTqvoPD9nLz
Vikram Gokhale ex FS identifies one of the reasons the Chinese undertook what they did in the summer of 2020 including Galwan was to probe India's response to Chinese aggression including the preparedness of the IA .
It's very interesting for the ex FS to have made this observation for this is the first time I'm coming across this PoV.
It also harkens back to what a military strategist from a bygone era - Ravi Rikhye highlighted in his submission 2 decades ago if not more on the same topic arguing that the Chinese would make a couple of probing attempts before launching their definitive campaign .
However what I find as interesting if not more is the total non cognizance of the fact that our actions in J&K in August 2019 provoked the Chinese into the events of 2020 , something which quite a few avid China watching veterans alluded to .
It can't be an ex FS is unaware of these dimensions while analysing the reasons for the " Chinese misadventure " across the LAC .
I suspect he's doing what every bureaucrat worth his salt is doing - covering up his behind for this has been a consistent blind spot with our foreign policy establishment , something which both the MEA & the China Study Group (originally envisaged to be a body outside the purview & influence of the MEA directly under the control of the PMO to provide an independent assessment of China but later successfully infiltrated by the MEA to become more or less an echo chamber for the MEA policies ) failed to predict for they never really considered the possibility of the Chinese using all these agreements we signed with them as a ruse to buy time before prosecuting what the latter considered their legitimate claim over the disputed region.
They have consistently refused to consider or evaluate Chinese interest or involvement in the Kashmir issue & our decisions on its future affecting the larger geo strategic & geo political environment including its repercussions on our ties with China & thereby the world especially the US led west , since our relationship with the Chinese soured over Aksai Chin.
This also finds reflection in the now infamous interview of Lt Gen ( retd) P. RaviShankar who hemmed & hawed his way through when asked why wasn't ATAGS considered for deployment across the LAC.
Simple answer - the IA never envisaged such a role for it for their threat perception was guided by our MEA babooos on it . Hence deterrence by denial not by deterrence of capabilities & capacities . In many ways we're still continuing in the same vein in spite of the " truth having dawned on us " post Galwan.
Interesting video, Carl was trying understand Indian logical to explain india china relation.
View: https://youtu.be/FddFXoRAdk0?si=SSL9glgTxZTUS7fZ