China reiterated that Kashmir is a dispute left over from history between India and Pakistan, and opposed any unilateral actions that complicate the situation.
In case of simultaneous threat from Pakistan and China, Gen Rawat, who is also India’s first CDS, had said there would be a primary and a secondary front.
According to Swedish think-tank SIPRI, China is in the middle of a significant expansion of its nuclear arsenal and is developing the ‘nuclear triad for the first time’.
Dodgy estimations of wheat produce, failure to curb exports, hoarding & profiteering by agents has resulted in a dramatic rise in wheat prices in Pakistan.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Comment from Genhektor Posted in ThePrint : 23.08.2020 —
Varma’s balanced article includes a rarely included peek at the views from the “despicable other side”. ThePrint’s readers deserve to know more fully that a war could break out between China and India by late -2021. Any experienced Indian airman will tell us that even the first squadron of Rafales would not be confidently fieldable until early 2022. The three services have only recently placed urgent orders ($1Bb) to replenish their most gaping deficiencies in stocks of munitions and other materiel.
The biggest dilemma as India heads for a war with China (presumably to “restore” an imprecisely defined LAC) would be that it might end up with an enlarged list of LAC restoration problems. Both Raja Mohan (The Indian Express, 16 June) and Abhijnan Rej (The Diplomat, 22 August) have pointed to India’s twin problems of “power differential” and the peril of “simultaneity” in India attempting to gain its strategic objectives at the same time that it sets out to fix its borders.
A flurry of fig-leafing since mid-2019 has failed to obscure the reality that Ladakh was caused directly by the August 2019 initiative. The world powers have not been dutifully acquiescent after the huge vote of approval on August 5, 2019 was paraded as the “virtual constitutional law” to re-organise the disputed state without the pre-approval of its citizens or its properly elected leaders. The apex court is yet to give its verdict on that justice-challenging controversy.
The most awkward (and unexplained) part of the August legislation has been that the huge parts of the Kashmir territory that are now claimed as India’s was not — and had never at any time been — under India’s possession or legal control. India’s friends would, in fact, point out that the disputed territory is clearly under the temporary administrative control of India, Pakistan and China, under the U.N. observers watch, until the dispute has been settled by peaceful negotiations.
Just one of the three parties to the dispute insisting on living in its own reality could spell a totally pointless — and hugely tragic — war in the Himalayas.
Comment from Genhektor Posted in ThePrint : 23.08.2020 —
Varma’s balanced article includes a rarely included peek at the views from the “despicable other side”. ThePrint’s readers deserve to know more fully that a war could break out between China and India by late -2021. Any experienced Indian airman will tell us that even the first squadron of Rafales would not be confidently fieldable until early 2022. The three services have only recently placed urgent orders ($1Bb) to replenish their most gaping deficiencies in stocks of munitions and other materiel.
The biggest dilemma as India heads for a war with China (presumably to “restore” an imprecisely defined LAC) would be that it might end up with an enlarged list of LAC restoration problems. Both Raja Mohan (The Indian Express, 16 June) and Abhijnan Rej (The Diplomat, 22 August) have pointed to India’s twin problems of “power differential” and the peril of “simultaneity” in India attempting to gain its strategic objectives at the same time that it sets out to fix its borders.
A flurry of fig-leafing since mid-2019 has failed to obscure the reality that Ladakh was caused directly by the August 2019 initiative. The world powers have not been dutifully acquiescent after the huge vote of approval on August 5, 2019 was paraded as the “virtual constitutional law” to re-organise the disputed state without the pre-approval of its citizens or its properly elected leaders. The apex court is yet to give its verdict on that justice-challenging controversy.
The most awkward (and unexplained) part of the August legislation has been that the huge parts of the Kashmir territory that are now claimed as India’s was not — and had never at any time been — under India’s possession or legal control. India’s friends would, in fact, point out that the disputed territory is clearly under the temporary administrative control of India, Pakistan and China, under the U.N. observers watch, until the dispute has been settled by peaceful negotiations.
Just one of the three parties to the dispute insisting on living in its own reality could spell a totally pointless — and hugely tragic — war in the Himalayas.
Who da fook cares bruh…
They licks each other’s back …It is n’t a new thing
Pakistan has become a “all weather” whore for China.