Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China believes in peaceful coexistence on issues of territorial integrity, and Beijing's diplomacy is aimed at creating a win-win situation for all.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh says a realistic assessment of resources is required and the available budget should be efficiently utilised to address all challenges.
The National Security Directive on Telecommunication Sector has been framed keeping in mind the changed scenario and seeks to put powerful Chinese telecom companies into a corner.
Huawei, accused of links to Chinese govt and facing curbs in countries over national security concerns, appears to be seeking to gauge people's perception of it through the survey.
The Mountain Strike Corps played a key role in shaping India’s counter-offensive strategy that led to the domination of the southern banks of the Pangong Tso.
MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava reiterates that Russia is a ‘friend’ and states that the Indo-Pacific strategies are not directed against any country.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
What lost territory??? Porkis sitting in western border are now champions of geography of eastern border in india??
I see a major shift in India’s approach to handling China that should have been the motif post 1959 namely prepare for a war against the Dragon. Regardless of how the delusions of 1950s led occupation of Tibet and to the defeat in 1962 at the hands of China, the mandarins of Foreign Office were ill-trained to understand national interest and bureaucratic superiority. Indeed we never had a Foreign Minister able and wily to handle matters in the region. The Pokhran II nuclear test and the will to confront and standup to the world media damnations were the first sign of change in approach propelled and stymied by party in power. The occupation of the Kailash Range and bringing the NH to Lhasa under Indian guns is an act that India should relinquish until all the border is demarcated and Tibet has an autonomous government. Never again repeat the mistake of Pir Panjal.
Be as it may, missing buses and trains, India has move no to lose flights. But it has time say upto 2030. China will not begin to move to arrest the world – the Covid pandemic was a test of case – to dominate it until 2050. All have the option to plan and attack China’s interests. Trump hugely did his job. Others have reluctantly joined. Australia is facing a crisis on the matter. New Zealand clearly wants to exhibit pro-China leanings. Indonesia and Philippines does not know yet what in their store having weak economies.
Badly analysed by Shri Chakruborthy. Nothing is settled. Nothing is achieved. nearly 7300 sq km of land is missing and being claimed as “our point of view” by China. In the meanwhile, post covid it is the only economy to achieve growth of 3.4% in FY 2020 . Its manufacturing grew stronger as they supplied most of the world with PPEsuits, test kits and masks as well as ventilators. Mr Trump is gone and so have most of the so-called strong men who created damage to their country. The dragon is quiet.Its breathing. Its just not breathing fire right now..
Marc, viedd, and Basharat Malik and seems to be Pakistani stooges. NatureTruth seems to be a Chinese stooge. Can you fools exit this website and go back to your pakistani or chinese news sites? We don’t need people like you on Indian new sites.
India has got into a battle of attrition with a far more powerful and wealthy adversary de facto sanctioning “Salami Slicing” instead of pushing back on day one and daring China to escalate. India loses.
It’s a very good article which summarizes all the events that led to LAC stand-off and also offers a very good comparable view over past skirmishes. It’s true, the way India responded to China’s unilateral action of changing the status quo has diminished China’s status. So a stalemate forced by India on China can definitely be considered a win, although a limited win. Now China’s actions have been limited to a big extent.
However India must not forget these truths:
As stated in this article too, China had secured all the strategic territory that it needed to in the 1950s and had further safeguarded this asset by securing more in the 1962 war. India became aware of this only after China had already captured the territory. China still has much better infrastructure mostly because the relatively plain areas on its side favors it. India has to manage the heights to develop infrastructure and only after 2010-11 the infrastructure development picked up speed. The Modi govt. initially reduced this budget, but after Doklam stand-off Modi got a rude shock and increased this budget again.
1. So India has to keep on developing the required infrastructure.
2. India has a greater advantage as it still commands the heights.
3. India’s population is much nearer to LAC compared to China’s. So any tourism activities promoted by Indian military will be a great advantage for India. China has to spend five times more to match up to India on this part.
4. India can easily shift people, material easily and at a faster rate than China. China has to pay a bigger cost in maintaining the area. So any prolonged stalemate forced by India on China is much worse for China in the long run.
Claiming stalemate with China a victory for India is in fact accepting defeat. It clearly shows that India is unable to get back its over 1000 Sq KM area from Chinese forces captured during the recent stand off. The general is well advised to avoid misleading his factually incorrect assessment of the situation
Applying the same criterion further to the west; would the esteemed General agree that Pakistan has won & India defeated with the stalemated LOC. With very little imagination & wordplay one can say, “With Pakistan sitting on the Gilgit-Baltistan Range, even with limited loss of territory in the Vale of Kashmir, Pakistan military has forced a stalemate on India. And a stalemate is a defeat for the superior power ,i.e. India!
Your analogy does not work as, post Independence, India could have recovered the whole of Jammu and Kashmir. As you yourself admit, India was and is the stronger power. For whatever reason, a series of Indian governments chose not to do so. The stalemate that exists today started later when both nations became nuclear.
Dear Marc. Our country has been countering two nuclear power countries at the same time( China and Pak), and has stalemated their alliance in this region. So in that sense this stalemate at both the fronts is a defeat for both Pak and China.
Stalemate is a win for India. Sustain it not just to strike a better bargain but as a token reminder to the PLA for underestimating the new India. That said, PLA – being a superior and well funded force will initiate other actions to seize the advantage. Hopefully the Indian Army brass strategized for that eventuality and has devised an appropriate response.
As HS Panag pointed out, India had did all these reckless unilateral moves to severely threaten China security including alliance with USM, yet he called China reactive counter measures as hegemony. How weird and hypocrite. Every rationale nation will have taken such India hostile acts as war declaration.
If China will to do all these similar aggression acts to threaten India security, all Indians will be beating chests shrieking for war.
Now Panag even think a stalemate is a win for India, when the Highland bitter winter will kill more Indians than any confrontation. Many jawans will fall in coming few mths of bitter winter esp when fuel supply run out. All heavy weapons like tanks will be degraded without proper shelter.
The reason China is in no hurry to de-escalate because it has all the logistic supply well prepared to sustain for perpetual standoff.
Its also not keen to purge India army from all their occupied peaks, except one strategic peak it had already taken back, because these peaks are simply too harsh for securing esp in winter. Its better let IA suffered huge casualties in the bitter winter there, not able to withdraw less losing face, nor sustain logistic supply for long term troop stationed.
Ladakh standoff is only the beginning of punishment for India opportunistic security threat to China. There will be more standoffs along entire 4000km border lines as China build up infrastructures for logistic supply.
India will bleed all its little resources in maintaining a huge army at long border, with endless costly arm race India small fragile economy can ill afford, esp during its uncontrollable COVID outbreak and plunging economy.
Yet Panak is deluded that India has scored a win and advocate prolong the standoff instead of minimize damage by backing off from Modi gov misadventure brinkmanship, which Nehru also made that lead to India 1962 disastrous defeat.
With such hubris mentality exist in IA top brass like Panag and CDS Rawats, its not surprise IA is so broken and reckless.
Modi RSS gov is self digging grave for India to fight formidable China it can never match in every aspect.
Another worst 1962 punishment of multi front wars is foreseeable in near future with such India expansionism and opportunistic behavior.
One often reads comments under the monicker ”NatureTruth” under the articles posted by chinese Global Times and they’re often as irrelevant as the one posted here.
The saving grace in all of this is that the chinese appear to be believing their own propaganda. This leaves them with multiple blind holes in their strategy (1967 skirmish and 2020 August 29-30 comes to mind). Not to mention hubris.
Emerging super power cannot be sabotaged by India rather India will be damaged
Porkis are advised not to read such articles, or anti-burn ointments might be needed.
Imagine Shri Panag Saab what will happen if prime minister chair was occupied by Shri RG and his astute advisors were Shri Yehchury, Shri Karat and Shri D Raja.
India must not settle with China without China restoring the positions held by both countries prior to April. This should be India”S line . India must keep the pressure up on the Chinese occupying force until they do so. India should Beverly compromise on this no matter what the cost.
Learned General is right. The victory or defeat in a war is determined by the objective sought to be achieved by the Aggressor, in this case, China. China has not achieved its objective yet, nor withdrawn. Technically, it is a defeat for china, though a stalemate. China tries to use the threat of war, rather than war itself as a tool for gobbling up Indian territory. Patience is the most important in dealing with Chinese. India should not be in a hurry to pose before the world as a peacenik.
Lot of things that the author mentioned that could have unsettled China, had happened post 2014. Prior to 2014, our leadership would be happy to plead with China to vacate the occupied territory and claim a great diplomatic victory. Our pacifist attitude did not allow us to develop infrastructure in our own territory, lest PLA felt annoyed and took over what is ours. I do not want to see an aggressive India attacking others but we must defend what is ours we everything we have got. The author did not talk about loss of Chinese soldiers. He may claim since China has not declared the casualty figure, it may not be right. By that account world needn’t talk about genocide in Bangladesh, killing and ethnic cleansing in Balochistan, occupation of Tibet or Uighur’s in concentration camp. Neither China nor PKistan ever acknowledged their misdeeds. Finally, why does critics assume all people sitting at decision making table are a bunch of fools devoid of any ground level reality? Honorable general sahab was Lso sitting as a decision maker in not so distant past. And we know our past vis a vis China was not so glorious.
We are not living in 2020 AD but 7 AC(After Congress). 2014 is year 0 and everything prior to that shall be referred to as BM(Before Modi).
2030 will be 17AC
2010 will be 4BM
It is too early for India to declare victory or claim defeat for China. This stalemate has cost India’a entire military modernization budget for the year. If it continues into the next year, it will cost the entire modernization budget for the next year. Any honest assessment would take into account what shape the Indian Army will be in after this. Getting locked into a stalemate in which you consume equal amounts of money to a country that is 6-times richer than you are is not a recipe for victory.
i am stunned! is everything ok today panag sir? aaj breakfast mein ky khaya tha? sir 2-3 din ka break le lo….after that return with renewed vigor and attack these hindutwawadi bjp rss people.
China is in good shape and on its way to becoming a rich country. India’s economy is stalled and the number of ethnic conflicts are rising. Khalistan, Muslim-Hindu, and Northeast groups. Losing a war to China may begin the process of India going the way of the USSR.
What a foolish article…………….When an invader has taken Indian land & India has not recovered the lost territory how can that be termed as stalemate???
What lost territory??? Porkis sitting in western border are now champions of geography of eastern border in india??
I see a major shift in India’s approach to handling China that should have been the motif post 1959 namely prepare for a war against the Dragon. Regardless of how the delusions of 1950s led occupation of Tibet and to the defeat in 1962 at the hands of China, the mandarins of Foreign Office were ill-trained to understand national interest and bureaucratic superiority. Indeed we never had a Foreign Minister able and wily to handle matters in the region. The Pokhran II nuclear test and the will to confront and standup to the world media damnations were the first sign of change in approach propelled and stymied by party in power. The occupation of the Kailash Range and bringing the NH to Lhasa under Indian guns is an act that India should relinquish until all the border is demarcated and Tibet has an autonomous government. Never again repeat the mistake of Pir Panjal.
Be as it may, missing buses and trains, India has move no to lose flights. But it has time say upto 2030. China will not begin to move to arrest the world – the Covid pandemic was a test of case – to dominate it until 2050. All have the option to plan and attack China’s interests. Trump hugely did his job. Others have reluctantly joined. Australia is facing a crisis on the matter. New Zealand clearly wants to exhibit pro-China leanings. Indonesia and Philippines does not know yet what in their store having weak economies.
Badly analysed by Shri Chakruborthy. Nothing is settled. Nothing is achieved. nearly 7300 sq km of land is missing and being claimed as “our point of view” by China. In the meanwhile, post covid it is the only economy to achieve growth of 3.4% in FY 2020 . Its manufacturing grew stronger as they supplied most of the world with PPEsuits, test kits and masks as well as ventilators. Mr Trump is gone and so have most of the so-called strong men who created damage to their country. The dragon is quiet.Its breathing. Its just not breathing fire right now..
Marc, viedd, and Basharat Malik and seems to be Pakistani stooges. NatureTruth seems to be a Chinese stooge. Can you fools exit this website and go back to your pakistani or chinese news sites? We don’t need people like you on Indian new sites.
India has got into a battle of attrition with a far more powerful and wealthy adversary de facto sanctioning “Salami Slicing” instead of pushing back on day one and daring China to escalate. India loses.
War, good gawd yah’ll ,what is it good for, absolutely nothing .
It’s a very good article which summarizes all the events that led to LAC stand-off and also offers a very good comparable view over past skirmishes. It’s true, the way India responded to China’s unilateral action of changing the status quo has diminished China’s status. So a stalemate forced by India on China can definitely be considered a win, although a limited win. Now China’s actions have been limited to a big extent.
However India must not forget these truths:
As stated in this article too, China had secured all the strategic territory that it needed to in the 1950s and had further safeguarded this asset by securing more in the 1962 war. India became aware of this only after China had already captured the territory. China still has much better infrastructure mostly because the relatively plain areas on its side favors it. India has to manage the heights to develop infrastructure and only after 2010-11 the infrastructure development picked up speed. The Modi govt. initially reduced this budget, but after Doklam stand-off Modi got a rude shock and increased this budget again.
1. So India has to keep on developing the required infrastructure.
2. India has a greater advantage as it still commands the heights.
3. India’s population is much nearer to LAC compared to China’s. So any tourism activities promoted by Indian military will be a great advantage for India. China has to spend five times more to match up to India on this part.
4. India can easily shift people, material easily and at a faster rate than China. China has to pay a bigger cost in maintaining the area. So any prolonged stalemate forced by India on China is much worse for China in the long run.
Claiming stalemate with China a victory for India is in fact accepting defeat. It clearly shows that India is unable to get back its over 1000 Sq KM area from Chinese forces captured during the recent stand off. The general is well advised to avoid misleading his factually incorrect assessment of the situation
Fully agree with the General. It was self-destructive to even partially vacate any of the heights.
Never trust CPC’s China ??!
Applying the same criterion further to the west; would the esteemed General agree that Pakistan has won & India defeated with the stalemated LOC. With very little imagination & wordplay one can say, “With Pakistan sitting on the Gilgit-Baltistan Range, even with limited loss of territory in the Vale of Kashmir, Pakistan military has forced a stalemate on India. And a stalemate is a defeat for the superior power ,i.e. India!
Your analogy does not work as, post Independence, India could have recovered the whole of Jammu and Kashmir. As you yourself admit, India was and is the stronger power. For whatever reason, a series of Indian governments chose not to do so. The stalemate that exists today started later when both nations became nuclear.
Dear Marc. Our country has been countering two nuclear power countries at the same time( China and Pak), and has stalemated their alliance in this region. So in that sense this stalemate at both the fronts is a defeat for both Pak and China.
Stalemate is a win for India. Sustain it not just to strike a better bargain but as a token reminder to the PLA for underestimating the new India. That said, PLA – being a superior and well funded force will initiate other actions to seize the advantage. Hopefully the Indian Army brass strategized for that eventuality and has devised an appropriate response.
As HS Panag pointed out, India had did all these reckless unilateral moves to severely threaten China security including alliance with USM, yet he called China reactive counter measures as hegemony. How weird and hypocrite. Every rationale nation will have taken such India hostile acts as war declaration.
If China will to do all these similar aggression acts to threaten India security, all Indians will be beating chests shrieking for war.
Now Panag even think a stalemate is a win for India, when the Highland bitter winter will kill more Indians than any confrontation. Many jawans will fall in coming few mths of bitter winter esp when fuel supply run out. All heavy weapons like tanks will be degraded without proper shelter.
The reason China is in no hurry to de-escalate because it has all the logistic supply well prepared to sustain for perpetual standoff.
Its also not keen to purge India army from all their occupied peaks, except one strategic peak it had already taken back, because these peaks are simply too harsh for securing esp in winter. Its better let IA suffered huge casualties in the bitter winter there, not able to withdraw less losing face, nor sustain logistic supply for long term troop stationed.
Ladakh standoff is only the beginning of punishment for India opportunistic security threat to China. There will be more standoffs along entire 4000km border lines as China build up infrastructures for logistic supply.
India will bleed all its little resources in maintaining a huge army at long border, with endless costly arm race India small fragile economy can ill afford, esp during its uncontrollable COVID outbreak and plunging economy.
Yet Panak is deluded that India has scored a win and advocate prolong the standoff instead of minimize damage by backing off from Modi gov misadventure brinkmanship, which Nehru also made that lead to India 1962 disastrous defeat.
With such hubris mentality exist in IA top brass like Panag and CDS Rawats, its not surprise IA is so broken and reckless.
Modi RSS gov is self digging grave for India to fight formidable China it can never match in every aspect.
Another worst 1962 punishment of multi front wars is foreseeable in near future with such India expansionism and opportunistic behavior.
One often reads comments under the monicker ”NatureTruth” under the articles posted by chinese Global Times and they’re often as irrelevant as the one posted here.
The saving grace in all of this is that the chinese appear to be believing their own propaganda. This leaves them with multiple blind holes in their strategy (1967 skirmish and 2020 August 29-30 comes to mind). Not to mention hubris.
Emerging super power cannot be sabotaged by India rather India will be damaged
Porkis are advised not to read such articles, or anti-burn ointments might be needed.
Imagine Shri Panag Saab what will happen if prime minister chair was occupied by Shri RG and his astute advisors were Shri Yehchury, Shri Karat and Shri D Raja.
India must not settle with China without China restoring the positions held by both countries prior to April. This should be India”S line . India must keep the pressure up on the Chinese occupying force until they do so. India should Beverly compromise on this no matter what the cost.
Learned General is right. The victory or defeat in a war is determined by the objective sought to be achieved by the Aggressor, in this case, China. China has not achieved its objective yet, nor withdrawn. Technically, it is a defeat for china, though a stalemate. China tries to use the threat of war, rather than war itself as a tool for gobbling up Indian territory. Patience is the most important in dealing with Chinese. India should not be in a hurry to pose before the world as a peacenik.
Lot of things that the author mentioned that could have unsettled China, had happened post 2014. Prior to 2014, our leadership would be happy to plead with China to vacate the occupied territory and claim a great diplomatic victory. Our pacifist attitude did not allow us to develop infrastructure in our own territory, lest PLA felt annoyed and took over what is ours. I do not want to see an aggressive India attacking others but we must defend what is ours we everything we have got. The author did not talk about loss of Chinese soldiers. He may claim since China has not declared the casualty figure, it may not be right. By that account world needn’t talk about genocide in Bangladesh, killing and ethnic cleansing in Balochistan, occupation of Tibet or Uighur’s in concentration camp. Neither China nor PKistan ever acknowledged their misdeeds. Finally, why does critics assume all people sitting at decision making table are a bunch of fools devoid of any ground level reality? Honorable general sahab was Lso sitting as a decision maker in not so distant past. And we know our past vis a vis China was not so glorious.
We are not living in 2020 AD but 7 AC(After Congress). 2014 is year 0 and everything prior to that shall be referred to as BM(Before Modi).
2030 will be 17AC
2010 will be 4BM
It is too early for India to declare victory or claim defeat for China. This stalemate has cost India’a entire military modernization budget for the year. If it continues into the next year, it will cost the entire modernization budget for the next year. Any honest assessment would take into account what shape the Indian Army will be in after this. Getting locked into a stalemate in which you consume equal amounts of money to a country that is 6-times richer than you are is not a recipe for victory.
i am stunned! is everything ok today panag sir? aaj breakfast mein ky khaya tha? sir 2-3 din ka break le lo….after that return with renewed vigor and attack these hindutwawadi bjp rss people.
China is the next USSR in making. Xi wants to avoid it all cost! It is too late.
China is in good shape and on its way to becoming a rich country. India’s economy is stalled and the number of ethnic conflicts are rising. Khalistan, Muslim-Hindu, and Northeast groups. Losing a war to China may begin the process of India going the way of the USSR.