The shared global concern around China is a major opportunity for India to create the structures needed to benefit from a soft alliance of like-minded countries.
Former Northern Army commander Lt Gen Panag also said the strategic Darbuk-Shyokh-Daulat Beg Oldie would be rendered non-operational in case of a war with China.
The false narrative being built up to indicate that the Chinese have been forced to retreat by India’s strong political will and military might only harms us.
In an interview to Saamana, Sharad Pawar says China is a bigger threat to India than Pakistan, and that China has distanced every neighbouring country from India.
In a statement, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has said that using Zoom as a communication platform can run against the interests of the country.
Durrani as NSA was a leap for Pakistan. No surprise that he didn’t even last a year in that job. He chafed after 26/11, seeing it as a deliberate Army/ISI betrayal.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Mr RKA
I feel very much enlightened while I read comments on the print articles
These pakis don’t need to be searched
They themselves say that where are you searching us
We are here with extraordinary quality of comments
These people are distinct as they show their intellectual levels through their comments
This is an excellent article summing up all the events which are largely in public domain since 1962. The content does not match the headlines, however. What will be the strategic alignment if China and Pakistan make a joint attempt at India? If Nepal adds its nuisance value during the joint attack, what will happen. If Bangladesh allows its port in the time of crisis, what will happen? What will be the stand that US will take? What will be the stand Russia will adopt? How EU will look at it? These are the issues on which some insights are needed. These are not provided in the write up. This is the biggest disappointment. Anybody, with some flair in writing and with some skill in data mining can write this type of article. Sekhar’s Choice should have been better – it should be based on the analysis of trends and portends – and not a string or concatenation of past events. a k pattabiraman, Chennai
It’s funny how Indians lap up articles written by foreigners, Jihadis or Indian origin Americans!! Despite some logical points, Aparna Pande, the author is a research Fellow in Hudson Institute, a leftist, pro Jihadi think tank in Washington!!
Who can believe that she will have a neutral or pro India narrative especially if America’s or Hudson’s own narrative & interests are involved??!!
Some Hindus claim under Modi, India has come on the stage as a world power. Then why do we seek US protection ? True powers like US, Russia, China do not seek anyone’s protection.
Pande’s capsule of U.S.-India crisis interaction is solidly factual. It would have been fairer if the picture of India’s provocative roles in some of those conflicts had not been glossed over.
In 1962, JFK was willing to go all out in India’s support, and in India’s defence, PM Nehru did not even hesitate to ask JFK to drop nuclear bombs on China. At the same time, India has, by its own logic, always been careful in making risky commitments with allies abroad. New Delhi would never deign to commit blunders (such as Pakistan’s during the Cold War, the 1979-88 Afghan War and the 2001 GWOT) because it dearly valued its independent foreign policy and neutralist morality amid the ugly global power plays. However, like many authors, including U.S. Ambassador Dennis Kux in his “Estranged Democracies” point out, there has always been a lack of unquestioned India-U.S. commitment (that Washington usually demands) that has traditionally tended to make India a hesitant partner. On its part, the U.S. has matched that reserve, as evidenced by the recent Trump-Pompeo postures. The underlying India-U.S. prickliness has thus tended to undermine the trust levels. On many occasions, a developing warmth has been abruptly cooled by a minor incident, owing to India’s tendency to be ‘nettlesome’ (an American adjective proudly confirmed by the late Secretary Dixit during a TV show) and its diplomatic insistence on the virtues of its own regional conduct (utterly free of expansionism against any of its neighbours) while contrasting it starkly with that of its hostile neighbours (expansionist in its vilest forms) that is wholly worthy of unrestrained U.S. punishment.
Mr. Bla Bla!! “On its part, the U.S. has matched that reserve…” Really?? Where is the action??!!
Why should the US wake up to India’s nightmare of a two front war ? This is India’s problem, it is India’a making, a fruit of too much Hindu nationalism.
Lol!! Here comes a Paki with half baked stories!! Will you let us know the Hindu genocide operated by the Islamic death cult in Indian Kashmir, Pakistan & Bangladesh too??!!
India has been begging the US to help it deal with China since 1962 war
You Paki has been begging China and had Xinjiang??!!
All sides are only serving their own interests.
Acting as human beings is totally forgotten.
Only Ideology & Belligerence result in a war to take over a part of another country.
China and Pakistan are both driven by their ideologies while India pursues
its own age old dharma. Nothing is reconcilable unless China understands
and accepts its foundations in history such as Buddhism and Taoism.
Pakistani stand is based on complete ignorance and foolishness.
Ji is a mad man. Khan is full of hatred and sick with radicalism.
You can tell looking at their faces.
As long as we have Brahmins like you, India will get beating from China and Pakistan.
It was a lady from the Brahmin stock – Mrs Indira Gandhi – who dismembered Pakistan, created Bangladesh, redrew the map of this subcontinent , put Nepal in its place, integrated Sikkim and showed china its place. Why do you drag the caste in a write up like this. Is it because of your poverty of ideas? a k pattabiraman, Chennai
yes the two front war is a distinct possibility
yes the differential with china is currently present
but we are headed in the right direction
and most importantly the right always always wins in the end – germany and japan in world wars and vietnam war being the greatest example – its the men not might which matters finally-not the weapons u have .
Are they really serious when successive Indian army chiefs say they are preparing for a two-front war? Or is a two-front war merely a bogey to attract sympathy from the right quarters? The more important question is: does India really consider China an enemy and does it really have the stomach or the desire to fight China? Indian has no match with China and its military. The Chinese are constantly reminding India about the power differential — military, economic and infrastructural — between them.
Muslim countries had many fold military strength against Israel but what happened to them in 1967. China is responsible for increasing militarisation of India. Every autocratic fascist ruler assumes that no country has power to stop him. Now the communist fascist rule is going towards his end.
We have a Hindu fascist ruling in India, and all we got was Indians fighting each other, a beating from China and a loss of land. It looks like Hindus will have India dismembered.
Ha!! Ha!! A Muslim calling others fascist is a good joke when Islam itself is fascism multiplied by a trillion!!
India’s two-front war mantra is just a bogey to attract sympathy from the United States and European powers. The two-front strategy aimed at gaining the financial, diplomatic and military assistance that is allowed by American cynicism. China should be prepared for further escalating tension, and China does not fear such an outcome.
How is Xinjiang?? Is Allah getting his daily dose??
Pakistan was a close ally of the USA and a member of CENTO and also a partner in the war against Soviets in Afghanistan. Pakistan has got billions of dollars of economic and military aid from the USA and also from China. The main concern for India is a triangle of friendship making by Pakistan with both USA and China. Pakistan is pressuring both China and the USA on Kashmir issue but only China is supporting Pakistan with full force and present border clash of India and China is only a demonstration of larger future conflict. The USA is supporting India against China and it is due to his broader plan against China in the Indo-Pacific region. What will happen when both China and Pakistan attack India? There may be three outcomes of this conflict, first, India neutralizes both sides attacks, second, India occupies some territory and third, India losses some territory. The third is the most dangerous and India will loss his regional and international status and also the USA’s position in the Indo-pacific region will be weakened. First and second outcomes will strengthened not only India but also the USA and India will be a trusted ally of western powers in this region. I think pentagon will be serious about the outcome of this possible war.
Brahmin, thanks for your analysis. What is more probable, India will capture land or lose land ?
Jihadi, get lost!!
India has learnt no lessons from US treatment of Pakistan even after they helped the US win in Afghanistan- twice. Present Indian government has made a strategic blunder by risking poor relations with old ally Russia, neighbour and big trade partner China as well as neighbouring Pakistan- while pursuing a mirage of a US support that didn’t come even when most needed, when China was occupying Indian territory, or even afterwards.
1. How come 1971 war was between India and Pakistan?
2. Why do Indian officials lie every single time which creates a lot confusion ? Hh
In 1971, the war was between East Pakistan and west Pakistan. Not India Pakistan that gave birth to Bangladesh.
I’m 79 yrs old and I was stationed in Burma during the 1971 War. I can assure you that the war was between East and west while India’s military had no rules against Pakistan. Which is why the war lasted for more than 8months and then India decided to get into Bangladesh around 5-6 December 1971 and Pakistanis had to surrender in Dacca because of the Bengali Guerrillas. Few Million Bengali died in that war and India was there to help Bengali making sure that Pakistan leaves as it promised. Stop creating fake history India
You forget that India had one major incentive for intervening in East Pakistan. It had received and accommodated 9 million refugees, the highest ever number in the 20th century. They could not have been returned to their land, unless Pakistan was kicked out of East Pakistan. You westerners are myopic. You cannot understand the problems of populous Asia.
Funny you were stationed in Burma in 1971 and yet you have no clue.East Pakistan declared independence in March and Pakistan started suppressing civil war brutally with the help of Islam terrorists and Military and almost it was successful which lead to huge refugee influx straining border states in India.Pakistan carried out air strikes on defense installations in North/Eastern part of India on Dec 3rd 1971(Operation Chengiz Khan) and India opened war fronts on both sides of Pakistan(Officially both sides never declared war ).Pakistan air strikes forced India’s hand that hastened Bangladesh independence.
Clinton pressured Pakistan to withdraw from kargil.. U accepted Pakistan defeated u in Kargil.. Tnx
Ha!! Ha!! Good Joke!! Pakistanis even left their Umma brothers with India despite all of them helped them create Pakistan!! India had 90k + Pakistani Jihadis as prisoners of war!! Pakistan formed on Islam is supporting China rape Islam & kill Ughur Muslims!!
Clinton pressured Pakistan to withdraw from Kargil and you withdrew?? Where is the force of Islam & Allah?? Are your ideological foundations so weak or are you basically cowards and inhuman animals killing not just Hindus but also Muslims in Pakistan??!!
I winder if the US is sleeping or just closing its eyes!!!!
Even when the edifice of NATO is seemingly crumbling… It is frivolous to expect US to take sides here and now on a hypothesis.
A dramatic entry in a cris in situation may pay better dividends for the US!!!!!
Unless india becomes a economic power this china threat will not vanish
And America wont take india seriously
The image of poor benighted hindu is still alive in the west
Aparna must be a very young journalist paid by Congress to spread panic.India has plenty of young men and women that can handle any eventualities.Did you not hear about American fleet that sailed thru man made islands to deter China?
India should help itself rather than depend on US.. An Indian defense analyst Ajay Shukla points out ( ..14 Corps can seldom count on reinforcements because Northern Command’s reserve formations are too often already committed in CI(Counter Insurgency) operations.” Police and defense sources repeatedly assert that there are just about 100 militants in Jammu and Kashmir. That just 100 militants are able to disrupt the operations of an entire Corps should be an eye opener and bring out to those at the helm of affairs as to how important it is to have peace with your own people. Having the trust and support of your own people is much more vital than having the trust and support of USA.
Well written article. In a few Cut the Clutters and National interest episodes, the otherwise well informed Shekhar Gupta ji also suggests making peace with Pak. Somehow the commentariat seems to think that Pak and its army are working independently of China. There is no scope for betterment of relations between Pak and India until they dismantle their terrorist networks. And i dont think this stance is likely to chance anytime soon irrespective of whoever is in power. We are as things stand today cursed with two hostile neighbors who are working closely. We just have to accept it and make necessary policy changes.
Yes
Two enemies working in tandem
After pakisthan is chinas colony
Only these jehadi fools dont realise it
Likewise: India is a common colony of both the USA and the UK.
Bla!! Bla! And you are part of colony of Xinjiang, Chinese camps specially build for the mentally disabled Muzzies??!!
I agree, bjp may have political dividend (as SG said on CTC) to an extend in enmity with Pakistan, but I don’t think that’s the only thing stopping this govt from making peace with Pakistan
Mr RKA
I feel very much enlightened while I read comments on the print articles
These pakis don’t need to be searched
They themselves say that where are you searching us
We are here with extraordinary quality of comments
These people are distinct as they show their intellectual levels through their comments
This is an excellent article summing up all the events which are largely in public domain since 1962. The content does not match the headlines, however. What will be the strategic alignment if China and Pakistan make a joint attempt at India? If Nepal adds its nuisance value during the joint attack, what will happen. If Bangladesh allows its port in the time of crisis, what will happen? What will be the stand that US will take? What will be the stand Russia will adopt? How EU will look at it? These are the issues on which some insights are needed. These are not provided in the write up. This is the biggest disappointment. Anybody, with some flair in writing and with some skill in data mining can write this type of article. Sekhar’s Choice should have been better – it should be based on the analysis of trends and portends – and not a string or concatenation of past events. a k pattabiraman, Chennai
It’s funny how Indians lap up articles written by foreigners, Jihadis or Indian origin Americans!! Despite some logical points, Aparna Pande, the author is a research Fellow in Hudson Institute, a leftist, pro Jihadi think tank in Washington!!
Who can believe that she will have a neutral or pro India narrative especially if America’s or Hudson’s own narrative & interests are involved??!!
Some Hindus claim under Modi, India has come on the stage as a world power. Then why do we seek US protection ? True powers like US, Russia, China do not seek anyone’s protection.
Pande’s capsule of U.S.-India crisis interaction is solidly factual. It would have been fairer if the picture of India’s provocative roles in some of those conflicts had not been glossed over.
In 1962, JFK was willing to go all out in India’s support, and in India’s defence, PM Nehru did not even hesitate to ask JFK to drop nuclear bombs on China. At the same time, India has, by its own logic, always been careful in making risky commitments with allies abroad. New Delhi would never deign to commit blunders (such as Pakistan’s during the Cold War, the 1979-88 Afghan War and the 2001 GWOT) because it dearly valued its independent foreign policy and neutralist morality amid the ugly global power plays. However, like many authors, including U.S. Ambassador Dennis Kux in his “Estranged Democracies” point out, there has always been a lack of unquestioned India-U.S. commitment (that Washington usually demands) that has traditionally tended to make India a hesitant partner. On its part, the U.S. has matched that reserve, as evidenced by the recent Trump-Pompeo postures. The underlying India-U.S. prickliness has thus tended to undermine the trust levels. On many occasions, a developing warmth has been abruptly cooled by a minor incident, owing to India’s tendency to be ‘nettlesome’ (an American adjective proudly confirmed by the late Secretary Dixit during a TV show) and its diplomatic insistence on the virtues of its own regional conduct (utterly free of expansionism against any of its neighbours) while contrasting it starkly with that of its hostile neighbours (expansionist in its vilest forms) that is wholly worthy of unrestrained U.S. punishment.
Mr. Bla Bla!! “On its part, the U.S. has matched that reserve…” Really?? Where is the action??!!
Why should the US wake up to India’s nightmare of a two front war ? This is India’s problem, it is India’a making, a fruit of too much Hindu nationalism.
Lol!! Here comes a Paki with half baked stories!! Will you let us know the Hindu genocide operated by the Islamic death cult in Indian Kashmir, Pakistan & Bangladesh too??!!
India has been begging the US to help it deal with China since 1962 war
You Paki has been begging China and had Xinjiang??!!
All sides are only serving their own interests.
Acting as human beings is totally forgotten.
Only Ideology & Belligerence result in a war to take over a part of another country.
China and Pakistan are both driven by their ideologies while India pursues
its own age old dharma. Nothing is reconcilable unless China understands
and accepts its foundations in history such as Buddhism and Taoism.
Pakistani stand is based on complete ignorance and foolishness.
Ji is a mad man. Khan is full of hatred and sick with radicalism.
You can tell looking at their faces.
As long as we have Brahmins like you, India will get beating from China and Pakistan.
It was a lady from the Brahmin stock – Mrs Indira Gandhi – who dismembered Pakistan, created Bangladesh, redrew the map of this subcontinent , put Nepal in its place, integrated Sikkim and showed china its place. Why do you drag the caste in a write up like this. Is it because of your poverty of ideas? a k pattabiraman, Chennai
yes the two front war is a distinct possibility
yes the differential with china is currently present
but we are headed in the right direction
and most importantly the right always always wins in the end – germany and japan in world wars and vietnam war being the greatest example – its the men not might which matters finally-not the weapons u have .
Are they really serious when successive Indian army chiefs say they are preparing for a two-front war? Or is a two-front war merely a bogey to attract sympathy from the right quarters? The more important question is: does India really consider China an enemy and does it really have the stomach or the desire to fight China? Indian has no match with China and its military. The Chinese are constantly reminding India about the power differential — military, economic and infrastructural — between them.
Muslim countries had many fold military strength against Israel but what happened to them in 1967. China is responsible for increasing militarisation of India. Every autocratic fascist ruler assumes that no country has power to stop him. Now the communist fascist rule is going towards his end.
We have a Hindu fascist ruling in India, and all we got was Indians fighting each other, a beating from China and a loss of land. It looks like Hindus will have India dismembered.
Ha!! Ha!! A Muslim calling others fascist is a good joke when Islam itself is fascism multiplied by a trillion!!
India’s two-front war mantra is just a bogey to attract sympathy from the United States and European powers. The two-front strategy aimed at gaining the financial, diplomatic and military assistance that is allowed by American cynicism. China should be prepared for further escalating tension, and China does not fear such an outcome.
How is Xinjiang?? Is Allah getting his daily dose??
Pakistan was a close ally of the USA and a member of CENTO and also a partner in the war against Soviets in Afghanistan. Pakistan has got billions of dollars of economic and military aid from the USA and also from China. The main concern for India is a triangle of friendship making by Pakistan with both USA and China. Pakistan is pressuring both China and the USA on Kashmir issue but only China is supporting Pakistan with full force and present border clash of India and China is only a demonstration of larger future conflict. The USA is supporting India against China and it is due to his broader plan against China in the Indo-Pacific region. What will happen when both China and Pakistan attack India? There may be three outcomes of this conflict, first, India neutralizes both sides attacks, second, India occupies some territory and third, India losses some territory. The third is the most dangerous and India will loss his regional and international status and also the USA’s position in the Indo-pacific region will be weakened. First and second outcomes will strengthened not only India but also the USA and India will be a trusted ally of western powers in this region. I think pentagon will be serious about the outcome of this possible war.
Brahmin, thanks for your analysis. What is more probable, India will capture land or lose land ?
Jihadi, get lost!!
India has learnt no lessons from US treatment of Pakistan even after they helped the US win in Afghanistan- twice. Present Indian government has made a strategic blunder by risking poor relations with old ally Russia, neighbour and big trade partner China as well as neighbouring Pakistan- while pursuing a mirage of a US support that didn’t come even when most needed, when China was occupying Indian territory, or even afterwards.
Lol!! You sure sound Patriotic……………… Pakistani!!
1. How come 1971 war was between India and Pakistan?
2. Why do Indian officials lie every single time which creates a lot confusion ? Hh
In 1971, the war was between East Pakistan and west Pakistan. Not India Pakistan that gave birth to Bangladesh.
I’m 79 yrs old and I was stationed in Burma during the 1971 War. I can assure you that the war was between East and west while India’s military had no rules against Pakistan. Which is why the war lasted for more than 8months and then India decided to get into Bangladesh around 5-6 December 1971 and Pakistanis had to surrender in Dacca because of the Bengali Guerrillas. Few Million Bengali died in that war and India was there to help Bengali making sure that Pakistan leaves as it promised. Stop creating fake history India
You forget that India had one major incentive for intervening in East Pakistan. It had received and accommodated 9 million refugees, the highest ever number in the 20th century. They could not have been returned to their land, unless Pakistan was kicked out of East Pakistan. You westerners are myopic. You cannot understand the problems of populous Asia.
Funny you were stationed in Burma in 1971 and yet you have no clue.East Pakistan declared independence in March and Pakistan started suppressing civil war brutally with the help of Islam terrorists and Military and almost it was successful which lead to huge refugee influx straining border states in India.Pakistan carried out air strikes on defense installations in North/Eastern part of India on Dec 3rd 1971(Operation Chengiz Khan) and India opened war fronts on both sides of Pakistan(Officially both sides never declared war ).Pakistan air strikes forced India’s hand that hastened Bangladesh independence.
Clinton pressured Pakistan to withdraw from kargil.. U accepted Pakistan defeated u in Kargil.. Tnx
Ha!! Ha!! Good Joke!! Pakistanis even left their Umma brothers with India despite all of them helped them create Pakistan!! India had 90k + Pakistani Jihadis as prisoners of war!! Pakistan formed on Islam is supporting China rape Islam & kill Ughur Muslims!!
Clinton pressured Pakistan to withdraw from Kargil and you withdrew?? Where is the force of Islam & Allah?? Are your ideological foundations so weak or are you basically cowards and inhuman animals killing not just Hindus but also Muslims in Pakistan??!!
I winder if the US is sleeping or just closing its eyes!!!!
Even when the edifice of NATO is seemingly crumbling… It is frivolous to expect US to take sides here and now on a hypothesis.
A dramatic entry in a cris in situation may pay better dividends for the US!!!!!
Just saying.
Unless india becomes a economic power this china threat will not vanish
And America wont take india seriously
The image of poor benighted hindu is still alive in the west
Aparna must be a very young journalist paid by Congress to spread panic.India has plenty of young men and women that can handle any eventualities.Did you not hear about American fleet that sailed thru man made islands to deter China?
India should help itself rather than depend on US.. An Indian defense analyst Ajay Shukla points out ( ..14 Corps can seldom count on reinforcements because Northern Command’s reserve formations are too often already committed in CI(Counter Insurgency) operations.” Police and defense sources repeatedly assert that there are just about 100 militants in Jammu and Kashmir. That just 100 militants are able to disrupt the operations of an entire Corps should be an eye opener and bring out to those at the helm of affairs as to how important it is to have peace with your own people. Having the trust and support of your own people is much more vital than having the trust and support of USA.
Very good observation. They want trust and support of Americans while undermining trust and support between Indians.
Europe & India is struggling with Islam & Mosques while Muslims flee Islamic nations for Christian & Hindu lands!! Shame on you!!
WHy use the word nightmare. It was Gen Bipin Rawat who said we are prepared fully for a two front war.
Has he changed his mind by any chance ?
These two criminals countries planning to drive evil forces
Well written article. In a few Cut the Clutters and National interest episodes, the otherwise well informed Shekhar Gupta ji also suggests making peace with Pak. Somehow the commentariat seems to think that Pak and its army are working independently of China. There is no scope for betterment of relations between Pak and India until they dismantle their terrorist networks. And i dont think this stance is likely to chance anytime soon irrespective of whoever is in power. We are as things stand today cursed with two hostile neighbors who are working closely. We just have to accept it and make necessary policy changes.
Yes
Two enemies working in tandem
After pakisthan is chinas colony
Only these jehadi fools dont realise it
Likewise: India is a common colony of both the USA and the UK.
Bla!! Bla! And you are part of colony of Xinjiang, Chinese camps specially build for the mentally disabled Muzzies??!!
I agree, bjp may have political dividend (as SG said on CTC) to an extend in enmity with Pakistan, but I don’t think that’s the only thing stopping this govt from making peace with Pakistan