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Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
Reading this now, I am sure Lt. Gen. Panag was wrong. China’s border skirmishes and Nepal’s Oli commenting negatively on India is part of the PLA strategy to put pressure on us to retreat.
Chinese are aggressors and should be stopped at all cost.
Ii is not the same weak India under Nehru.
Its s very strong and capable India under Mr Modi Chinese are finding it difficult to come to terms with this and hence their frustration.
The muscled policy adopted by the present govt, since 2014 is best suited while dealing with a contender like China, which always has tried to push India down. With so much military power at it’s disposal, still China think not twice, but ten times before embarking on an adventure with India under Modi. It has been a historical happening that whenever there is some internal political convulsions in China they get in to some external confrontation with their traditional adversaries. During doklam incident, Xi Jinping was trying to get crowned as the president for life. He wanted to create an impression that he is a strong leader etc, so orchestrated the doklam. The Chinese miltary cannot undertake such an important adventure without the consent of it’s political leadership. So, when India showed it’s appropriate response they did not have any other option but to slink back. We can expect more such reaction from China, when they have some internal political turmoil in future.
I think you may be mistaken that President Xi Jinping orchestrated the Doklam incident.
It is probably the local Chinese overseer of the Yadong Road contract, who seeing that they had a bit of a budget that year, decided to extend the track a few hundred meters towards the Jampheri ridge.
A bulldozer and half a dozen civilian workers were allocated to the Task.
Imagine their astonishment when one morning they were confronted with 300 Indians holding hands blocking the path. The Chinese garrison at Yadong was equally bewildered and unprepared, so the whole thing was not orchestrated.
New Delhi overreacted – particularly as the building did not occur on Indian territory – and China had already built tracks on the Plateau and the PLA frequently patrolled the area.
But Parcharak Modi though Brarat Mata had been violated, not a inch of our Mata can be stolen.
THE RESULT OF THE INDIAN DOKLAM HYSTERIA WAS.
The Chinese have now had large structures constructed on the Doklam plateau including barracks helipads, and artillery emplacements. Chinese roads are now criss cross the area right up to the disputed ridge. Huge amount of infrastructure has been built since the standoff.
This can be clearly seen on Google maps.
The road from Yadong has been tarred. There is also a road that leads to Jampahari ridge by another route fulfilling the Chinese objective.
Overlooking the Siliguri corridor from Jampheri ridge by Chinese forces is not a threat as an observation position, Chinese satellites already can overlook every inch of India. The corridor is over sixty miles away, too far for a rifle shot – and artillery mortars and rockets do not need line of sight.
Narendra Modi’s stand has only succeeded in the Chinese militarisation of the plateau. The Chinese will have their presence there further legitimised via negotiation with Bhutan.
The Chinese take a more pragmatic and calm approach to India, in contrast to India’s nationalistic and somewhat hysterical attitude towards China. Indian BJP politicians after all, have to play to their voters .
With China’s 60bn dollar trade surplus with India, its priority with India at the moment is trade and profit.
However China’s main concern is elsewhere with American forces in the Pacific.
In the above context a few thousand acres of barren land here and there do not matter to China, but is of great emotional significance for RSS ideologues.
Example: With Pakistan we refuse to let go of an inch of the Siachen Glacier and agree to mutually demilitarise the area, despite the continuing deaths and hardship of our troops.
General Panag is quite right in pointing out that in the last war, China having achieved its objectives and unilaterally withdrew.
In 1962 China denied any Indian claim to Akshai Chen as it wanted to secure its road, but was happy to let India come back and occupy from Daulat Beg Oldi and dozens of other places along its borders right up to Arunachal Pardesh.
After the 1962 war, Mao a military commander himself, effectively wanted to demilitarise the area. He at a military meeting, pointed at places in the India Tibet Border and said these are useless bits of barren land to scrap over, no rice will grow here Mao said.
The provocation over the years has come from India, it has militarised hugely (in contrast to its military presence prior to 1962) China has only reciprocated.
As China’s economy and educated population has surged It has massive resources and organisational skills available to built infrastructure in Tibet.
Panag is right China takes any adversary seriously and after the 1967 clash at Nathu La China realised that India was not interested in demilitarisation.
Some of India’s latest provocations has been landing planes at DBO, upgrading the road to Demchok and interfering in a boundary dispute between third parties at Doklam.
At DBO China is building a tarmac road to their national highway 219, The whole of Akshai Chin will be designated by the Chinese as an international tourist destination and is firmly in China’s grasp.
At Demchok China has responded by building air bases, tarmac roads and enhancing its garrison at Nagari.
China has commenced upgrading to a tarmac road to Lanquen Zangbo where it becomes the Sutlej river and building permanent structures along the Sutlej, in areas disputed by India but strangely not contested by Indian army petrols.
At Doklam plateau such has been the surge of Chinese building of infrastructure and reinforcing of the nearby garrison town Yadong that they completely dominate the Chumbi valley although it is not possible to attack via here, the worry should be the linking up of the China’s S204 highway to Bhutan, surveys have been done for a future railway to Will Bhutan follow Nepal’s example of railway to China?
India cannot afford a race to build infrastructure in the Himalayas as it cannot compete with China’s economy,
The Indian budget must have other priorities like education and healthcare. India will only gain parity and security with China via diplomatic means and an integrated economy with China , raising mountains divisions for an already bloated army is folly.
Our security is best served by joining the Belt and Road initiative.
We chickened out during the Doklam crises, our greatest threat is right wing ideology and BJP Jingoism, this prevents any rational way forward.
Reading this now, I am sure Lt. Gen. Panag was wrong. China’s border skirmishes and Nepal’s Oli commenting negatively on India is part of the PLA strategy to put pressure on us to retreat.
Chinese are aggressors and should be stopped at all cost.
Ii is not the same weak India under Nehru.
Its s very strong and capable India under Mr Modi Chinese are finding it difficult to come to terms with this and hence their frustration.
The muscled policy adopted by the present govt, since 2014 is best suited while dealing with a contender like China, which always has tried to push India down. With so much military power at it’s disposal, still China think not twice, but ten times before embarking on an adventure with India under Modi. It has been a historical happening that whenever there is some internal political convulsions in China they get in to some external confrontation with their traditional adversaries. During doklam incident, Xi Jinping was trying to get crowned as the president for life. He wanted to create an impression that he is a strong leader etc, so orchestrated the doklam. The Chinese miltary cannot undertake such an important adventure without the consent of it’s political leadership. So, when India showed it’s appropriate response they did not have any other option but to slink back. We can expect more such reaction from China, when they have some internal political turmoil in future.
I think you may be mistaken that President Xi Jinping orchestrated the Doklam incident.
It is probably the local Chinese overseer of the Yadong Road contract, who seeing that they had a bit of a budget that year, decided to extend the track a few hundred meters towards the Jampheri ridge.
A bulldozer and half a dozen civilian workers were allocated to the Task.
Imagine their astonishment when one morning they were confronted with 300 Indians holding hands blocking the path. The Chinese garrison at Yadong was equally bewildered and unprepared, so the whole thing was not orchestrated.
New Delhi overreacted – particularly as the building did not occur on Indian territory – and China had already built tracks on the Plateau and the PLA frequently patrolled the area.
But Parcharak Modi though Brarat Mata had been violated, not a inch of our Mata can be stolen.
THE RESULT OF THE INDIAN DOKLAM HYSTERIA WAS.
The Chinese have now had large structures constructed on the Doklam plateau including barracks helipads, and artillery emplacements. Chinese roads are now criss cross the area right up to the disputed ridge. Huge amount of infrastructure has been built since the standoff.
This can be clearly seen on Google maps.
The road from Yadong has been tarred. There is also a road that leads to Jampahari ridge by another route fulfilling the Chinese objective.
Overlooking the Siliguri corridor from Jampheri ridge by Chinese forces is not a threat as an observation position, Chinese satellites already can overlook every inch of India. The corridor is over sixty miles away, too far for a rifle shot – and artillery mortars and rockets do not need line of sight.
Narendra Modi’s stand has only succeeded in the Chinese militarisation of the plateau. The Chinese will have their presence there further legitimised via negotiation with Bhutan.
The Chinese take a more pragmatic and calm approach to India, in contrast to India’s nationalistic and somewhat hysterical attitude towards China. Indian BJP politicians after all, have to play to their voters .
With China’s 60bn dollar trade surplus with India, its priority with India at the moment is trade and profit.
However China’s main concern is elsewhere with American forces in the Pacific.
In the above context a few thousand acres of barren land here and there do not matter to China, but is of great emotional significance for RSS ideologues.
Example: With Pakistan we refuse to let go of an inch of the Siachen Glacier and agree to mutually demilitarise the area, despite the continuing deaths and hardship of our troops.
General Panag is quite right in pointing out that in the last war, China having achieved its objectives and unilaterally withdrew.
In 1962 China denied any Indian claim to Akshai Chen as it wanted to secure its road, but was happy to let India come back and occupy from Daulat Beg Oldi and dozens of other places along its borders right up to Arunachal Pardesh.
After the 1962 war, Mao a military commander himself, effectively wanted to demilitarise the area. He at a military meeting, pointed at places in the India Tibet Border and said these are useless bits of barren land to scrap over, no rice will grow here Mao said.
The provocation over the years has come from India, it has militarised hugely (in contrast to its military presence prior to 1962) China has only reciprocated.
As China’s economy and educated population has surged It has massive resources and organisational skills available to built infrastructure in Tibet.
Panag is right China takes any adversary seriously and after the 1967 clash at Nathu La China realised that India was not interested in demilitarisation.
Some of India’s latest provocations has been landing planes at DBO, upgrading the road to Demchok and interfering in a boundary dispute between third parties at Doklam.
At DBO China is building a tarmac road to their national highway 219, The whole of Akshai Chin will be designated by the Chinese as an international tourist destination and is firmly in China’s grasp.
At Demchok China has responded by building air bases, tarmac roads and enhancing its garrison at Nagari.
China has commenced upgrading to a tarmac road to Lanquen Zangbo where it becomes the Sutlej river and building permanent structures along the Sutlej, in areas disputed by India but strangely not contested by Indian army petrols.
At Doklam plateau such has been the surge of Chinese building of infrastructure and reinforcing of the nearby garrison town Yadong that they completely dominate the Chumbi valley although it is not possible to attack via here, the worry should be the linking up of the China’s S204 highway to Bhutan, surveys have been done for a future railway to Will Bhutan follow Nepal’s example of railway to China?
India cannot afford a race to build infrastructure in the Himalayas as it cannot compete with China’s economy,
The Indian budget must have other priorities like education and healthcare. India will only gain parity and security with China via diplomatic means and an integrated economy with China , raising mountains divisions for an already bloated army is folly.
Our security is best served by joining the Belt and Road initiative.
We chickened out during the Doklam crises, our greatest threat is right wing ideology and BJP Jingoism, this prevents any rational way forward.
Your, lopsided and negative opinion about India, its military capabilities and present policy makers has only exposed the bias.