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The loftily named Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs has met four times since the Chinese initiated Ladakh crisis on 19 April 2020. The respective Corps Commanders have met five times, and are likely to meet again; lower down the military chain, Division and Brigade Commanders[Read More…]
What an experience we have all had in the past four months! It has shaken everything from bottom to top and in all directions. No movement at all in such a shocking and scary way which no one had ever expected or even visualised. The Covid-19 Pandemic has toppled everything[Read More…]
LOOKING INDIA TALKING CHINA
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this document are solely of the Authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Defence and Security Alert Magazine (DSA), Owned by Ocean Media Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. Tensions are always high with bordering countries China and Pakistan. India’s[Read More…]
“——-If the US makes further military provocations in the South China Sea or ——takes action over the Taiwan question, the risk of regional skirmishes is escalating——“ Global Times of 20 July 2020 quoting Li Haidong, a professor at the Institute of International Relations of the China Foreign Affairs University. There[Read More…]
There is an ancient Chinese game of ‘GO’ in which players, if making their moves intelligently, ignore small battles for tactical gains in favour of a larger strategic game-plan. Leaving local disputes unresolved means that later, when the game intensifies, and the opponent is unguarded, you can snatch prizes at a[Read More…]
The overall mood has changed. A pall of weariness threatens to engulf India, even as dark clouds of aggression at the border make us squirm apprehensively. One of the many sly-cum-strategic goals of China seems to be on the verge of unnerving us. The unequivocal focus right now in our[Read More…]
If we recollect the historical events with China in the past six decades, we are all well-versed with the shared history between the two nations. But the new factor now is that China this time misunderstood India and it has underestimated India’s strength as compared to what we were in[Read More…]
The recent killings of Indian soldiers by the People’s Liberation Army of China exhibits China’s frustration and nothing else. China very well knows that a conventional war with India could be very hard hitting for it. And thus, the Chinese army has been provoking the Indian army at the Ladakh borders for the past few days that resulted into what appears to be an act of physical violence in which 20 Indian Army personnel were martyred though only after giving an equal blow.
Going back in history, Indian bureaucracy, and some in the Army too, cannot exorcise the ghost of 1962. The Chinese media takes advantage of this defeatist mindset and uses the narrative that India was humiliated in 1962 because the Indian Army (IA) was inferior to the Chinese Army (PLA). Indians,[Read More…]
