It is clear neither side seems to prefer war. Despite face-to-face deployment, no casualties have taken place since the Galwan Valley incident in June 2020.
Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik also tells Rajya Sabha no special allowance is given to families of armed forces personnel posted along China border.
Power differential with China doesn’t allow us to take back the usurped areas, but habitat across LAC will safeguard India against further loss of territory.
India said the onus to pull back first from forward positions was on China since its army had transgressed. The 14th round of talks lasted a marathon 16.5 hours.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
The world are watching how IA behave in deplorable ways.
First Amit Shah had bragged of invading Arsai Chin in Parliament to all applause, with art370 abrogated to illegal annexed J&K Ladakh against UNSC plebiscite ruling. Wannabe BJP thinks it can do every tyranny without consequence. But China is not Pak.
Then Rajnath opened a forward attack road trespassing Nepal land deep into Arsai Chin border, threatening CPEC & China’s only link between Xinjiang & Tibet.
While China was locked down completely by US COVID attack, India invaded its border aggressively during Feb~Ar2020, thinking devastated China will not able to defend. Alas, China controlled the outbreak by May2020 and gave IA a bloody nose, resulting in 20 jawans death.
While having commanders in peace negotiations, India army backstabbed PLA by launching reckless occupation of Kailash peaks inside China’s LAC. These are what H S Panag boasted as brilliant and bravery move. Should it be reverse, Indians will cry foul.
When the Kailash occupation move was blocked by PLA, IA opened fire risking gunfight recklessly. Yet it could denied and lied its PLA that open fire. If PLA had opted to fire back and kill all the intruders, face losing India will not able to back down from a disastrous war escalation.
But PLA knew Kailash peaks are too harsh to occupy during bitter winter, so it let General Nature taught IA a bitter lesson. Indeed IA suffer unbearable casualties in just 3mths into winter, and volunteer to withdraw. As face saving, IA strike a disengagement deal in Pangong Tso on full China’s term.
On return, PLA has shown no interest on discussing the rest of standoff points like Depsang, unless its at PLA term too.
With overwhelming power superiority, China will no longer interested to demarcate borderline with anything less than full return of Ladakh & South Tibet occupied by India.
India Prez Raj had forsaken the peace extended by China Jiang ZM when he rejected Jiang’s offering of either Arsai Chin or South Tibet as token of peace settlement.
Now India will pay dearly in perpetual border standoff, while losing both lands it craved for when China decided to take back at its chosen time.
Lt Gen H S Panag PVSM, AVSM (R) has failed to shade light as an independent military expert on the border disputes that poisoned India-China 5,000yrs relationship by Nehru in his 1962 evil aggression.
Instead, Panag opted to spice up his writing with Indian’s propaganda and falsehood to project tacitly China as aggressor, when he is fully aware that its result of India’s crave for every neighbors lands in Greater India expansionism, esp China’s Tibet, justify by using faked Brits Raj unilaterally drawn up map.
Everyone knows these McMahon nonsense has no legality nor ground, been exposed by Maxwell Melville & Henderson report.
Ladakh & South Tibet have both belong to China for thousand of years since Mongol Yuan Dynasty, well before even India was created by East British Company.
You dear General were arguing from the other side. Now you talking about final settlement after achieving some of then political objectives……..Why this sudden change . Are you a General or a politician.
Indian Statesmanship is a sham in the name of POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY. One PM in 1960s thinks and acts as per his convictions and sixty years later another acts with scant connect to ground realities. China on the contrary, is moving along a deeply thought out and regularly refined strategic trajectory which factors in the changed environment and ground realities.
Do the English articles only need to quote GORAs only. It gives an impression that Indian philosophy on wars, politics and all other aspects of civilization did not exist. Personal glories and achievements apart, do not know how we missed an opportunity in 1959, that we must not miss it now.
Was it conceivable to win a war at high altitudes with solders in canvas boots and sleeping with dari and blanket inadequate ammunition and no infrastructure to support the troops and was that the opportunity we missed ?
The world are watching how IA behave in deplorable ways.
First Amit Shah had bragged of invading Arsai Chin in Parliament to all applause, with art370 abrogated to illegal annexed J&K Ladakh against UNSC plebiscite ruling. Wannabe BJP thinks it can do every tyranny without consequence. But China is not Pak.
Then Rajnath opened a forward attack road trespassing Nepal land deep into Arsai Chin border, threatening CPEC & China’s only link between Xinjiang & Tibet.
While China was locked down completely by US COVID attack, India invaded its border aggressively during Feb~Ar2020, thinking devastated China will not able to defend. Alas, China controlled the outbreak by May2020 and gave IA a bloody nose, resulting in 20 jawans death.
While having commanders in peace negotiations, India army backstabbed PLA by launching reckless occupation of Kailash peaks inside China’s LAC. These are what H S Panag boasted as brilliant and bravery move. Should it be reverse, Indians will cry foul.
When the Kailash occupation move was blocked by PLA, IA opened fire risking gunfight recklessly. Yet it could denied and lied its PLA that open fire. If PLA had opted to fire back and kill all the intruders, face losing India will not able to back down from a disastrous war escalation.
But PLA knew Kailash peaks are too harsh to occupy during bitter winter, so it let General Nature taught IA a bitter lesson. Indeed IA suffer unbearable casualties in just 3mths into winter, and volunteer to withdraw. As face saving, IA strike a disengagement deal in Pangong Tso on full China’s term.
On return, PLA has shown no interest on discussing the rest of standoff points like Depsang, unless its at PLA term too.
With overwhelming power superiority, China will no longer interested to demarcate borderline with anything less than full return of Ladakh & South Tibet occupied by India.
India Prez Raj had forsaken the peace extended by China Jiang ZM when he rejected Jiang’s offering of either Arsai Chin or South Tibet as token of peace settlement.
Now India will pay dearly in perpetual border standoff, while losing both lands it craved for when China decided to take back at its chosen time.
Lt Gen H S Panag PVSM, AVSM (R) has failed to shade light as an independent military expert on the border disputes that poisoned India-China 5,000yrs relationship by Nehru in his 1962 evil aggression.
Instead, Panag opted to spice up his writing with Indian’s propaganda and falsehood to project tacitly China as aggressor, when he is fully aware that its result of India’s crave for every neighbors lands in Greater India expansionism, esp China’s Tibet, justify by using faked Brits Raj unilaterally drawn up map.
Everyone knows these McMahon nonsense has no legality nor ground, been exposed by Maxwell Melville & Henderson report.
Ladakh & South Tibet have both belong to China for thousand of years since Mongol Yuan Dynasty, well before even India was created by East British Company.
You dear General were arguing from the other side. Now you talking about final settlement after achieving some of then political objectives……..Why this sudden change . Are you a General or a politician.
Indian Statesmanship is a sham in the name of POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY. One PM in 1960s thinks and acts as per his convictions and sixty years later another acts with scant connect to ground realities. China on the contrary, is moving along a deeply thought out and regularly refined strategic trajectory which factors in the changed environment and ground realities.
Do the English articles only need to quote GORAs only. It gives an impression that Indian philosophy on wars, politics and all other aspects of civilization did not exist. Personal glories and achievements apart, do not know how we missed an opportunity in 1959, that we must not miss it now.
Was it conceivable to win a war at high altitudes with solders in canvas boots and sleeping with dari and blanket inadequate ammunition and no infrastructure to support the troops and was that the opportunity we missed ?