Beijing For Small-Scale Military Offensive Against India: Chinese Daily

CCP Dictator-Tryants in Beijing mean to cut off India from its northeastern states by building a plateau highway through the tiny nation of Butan that abuts India and is a protectorate of India. CCP has always insisted the northern third of India is Chinese territory which Beijing fully intends to reassign to China.

Indian armed forces entered Butan at the request of the government to intervene in a brief action that stopped PLA engineers constructing the roadway and their security detail. The two military forces have been positioned 150 yards apart in a standoff.

A PLA major-general with three senior colonels said on Central China Television Beijing would send reinforcements within two weeks to drive out the Indian Army units that have stopped the PLA engineers and security guards and which remain on the scene.




Beijing For Small-Scale Military Offensive Against India: Chinese Daily

August 5, 2017,

China is planning a small-scale military operation to push back Indian troops from the Doklam area within two weeks, according to a report in a state-run daily on Saturday.

The two countries have been locked in a standoff in the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the Bhutan tri-junction.

“China will not allow the military standoff between China and India in Doklam to last for too long, and there may be a small-scale military operation to expel Indian troops within two weeks,” Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, was quoted by the Global Times.

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With live-fire drill, China warns India not to test Beijing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...33c52b2f014_story.html?utm_term=.aa101662febf




Meanwhile an Indian born member of the British House of Lords Meghnad Desai is quoted by India Today in Utter Pradesh state claimed by Beijing that the United States would support India in any clash between China vs India:


India-China war likely soon, Washington will back New Delhi


"All things that follow now will have a lot to do with what happens in the South China Sea. The US has sent out enough signals. If there is war, it will be a US-China war, with India on the US side, in the South China Sea and in the Himalayas. This trio (India, China and the US) is a very combustible mixture right now," Desai told IANS.

Desai was also asked separately and directly whether the United States would stand with India in case a war does break out between the two nuclear-armed Asian countries. "Absolutely. Ultimately, you have to understand that India cannot stand up to China without American help and support. America cannot stand up to China without Indian help. That is the symmetry in this relationship.

Desai, notably, said that the current standoff in Doklam should not be viewed merely as a Indo-Sino face off. He went on to say that how the Doklam standoff would ultimately get resolved depends not just on negotiations between New Delhi and Beijing but on "what happens in the South China Sea".

Full-scale India-China war likely soon, Washington will back New Delhi: Meghnad Desai : India, News - India Today



Things globally had been relatively quiet since the lunatic Trump became president putting Washington in a turmoil of chaos. However, CCP Dictator-Tryants in Beijing appear to have figured wrongly that nobody would start shooting over a highway in Butan. It is in fact much more than that.

I dont see how any war between China and India could be small scale

Quag said:

I dont see how any war between China and India could be small scale

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This is only one of the increasing number of flash points of the budding multipolar world. By mid century we should expect one or other of them to graduate from a small military offensive to a regional or super regional nuclear encounter. It is yet much too early for any natiin to provoke war with the US directly, so we are relatively safe in that respect for now. But we will be tested by attacks on our allies whuch will become more probing as we let red lines be pushed aside.

But the clear and present threat is the growing probability of the regional skirmishes between nuclear of near nuclear nations. All you need is for 20 bombs to go off for rather disastrous results for us. This could occur even now.

Quag said:

I dont see how any war between China and India could be small scale

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The point exactly, yes.

It could seem CCP Dictator-Tyrants have given two weeks for New Delhi and Beijing to work something out to settle the beef.

It's Beijing that is on the ropes in this however.

The Party Congress meets in the fall to choose leaders for the next five years and Xi Jinping wants peace, quiet, order. Police in PRC have cleared sidewalk vendors from the streets and pushed inside outdoor cafe customers to keep the streets clear. Xi wants another five years plus ten more which would violate every CCP rule on the ten year maximum for a ruler. Xi is Mao Jr. in this regard and wholesale so he has strong internal Party opposition.

Maybe Xi needs a military action somewhere to try to force people to get behind him, maybe it's not a great idea to have a military conflict going on at this time. Maybe Xi is hoping for a short and quick decisive action against India which is hugely disrespected among Chinese.

We know well about these quick and clean military victories....

joG said:

This is only one of the increasing number of flash points of the budding multipolar world. By mid century we should expect one or other of them to graduate from a small military offensive to a regional or super regional nuclear encounter. It is yet much too early for any natiin to provoke war with the US directly, so we are relatively safe in that respect for now. But we will be tested by attacks on our allies whuch will become more probing as we let red lines be pushed aside.

But the clear and present threat is the growing probability of the regional skirmishes between nuclear of near nuclear nations. All you need is for 20 bombs to go off for rather disastrous results for us. This could occur even now.

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But between India and China I dont see any small skirmish, these are the 2 most populous couuntries on the planet and both are armed with nuclear weapons

Tangmo said:

The point exactly, yes.

It could seem CCP Dictator-Tyrants have given two weeks for New Delhi and Beijing to work something out to settle the beef.

It's Beijing that is on the ropes in this however.

The Party Congress meets in the fall to choose leaders for the next five years and Xi Jinping wants peace, quiet, order. Police in PRC have cleared sidewalk vendors from the streets and pushed inside outdoor cafe customers to keep the streets clear. Xi wants another five years plus ten more which would violate every CCP rule on the ten year maximum for a ruler. Xi is Mao Jr. in this regard and wholesale so he has strong internal Party opposition.

Maybe Xi needs a military action somewhere to try to force people to get behind him, maybe it's not a great idea to have a military conflict going on at this time. Maybe Xi is hoping for a short and quick decisive action against India which is hugely disrespected among Chinese.

We know well about these quick and clean military victories....

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Rulers have tried to distract their populations with wars in the past, but it never turns out well when you start fighting with someone who is militarily stong. Look what happened in the Falklands.

Tangmo said:

CCP Dictator-Tryants in Beijing mean to cut off India from its northeastern states by building a plateau highway through the tiny nation of Butan that abuts India and is a protectorate of India. CCP has always insisted the northern third of India is Chinese territory which Beijing fully intends to reassign to China.

Indian armed forces entered Butan at the request of the government to intervene in a brief action that stopped PLA engineers constructing the roadway and their security detail. The two military forces have been positioned 150 yards apart in a standoff.

A PLA major-general with three senior colonels said on Central China Television Beijing would send reinforcements within two weeks to drive out the Indian Army units that have stopped the PLA engineers and security guards and which remain on the scene.




Beijing For Small-Scale Military Offensive Against India: Chinese Daily

August 5, 2017,

China is planning a small-scale military operation to push back Indian troops from the Doklam area within two weeks, according to a report in a state-run daily on Saturday.

The two countries have been locked in a standoff in the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the Bhutan tri-junction.

“China will not allow the military standoff between China and India in Doklam to last for too long, and there may be a small-scale military operation to expel Indian troops within two weeks,” Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, was quoted by the Global Times.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/busi...demys-first-real-revenue-stream-is-online-now





With live-fire drill, China warns India not to test Beijing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...33c52b2f014_story.html?utm_term=.aa101662febf




Meanwhile an Indian born member of the British House of Lords Meghnad Desai is quoted by India Today in Utter Pradesh state claimed by Beijing that the United States would support India in any clash between China vs India:


India-China war likely soon, Washington will back New Delhi


"All things that follow now will have a lot to do with what happens in the South China Sea. The US has sent out enough signals. If there is war, it will be a US-China war, with India on the US side, in the South China Sea and in the Himalayas. This trio (India, China and the US) is a very combustible mixture right now," Desai told IANS.

Desai was also asked separately and directly whether the United States would stand with India in case a war does break out between the two nuclear-armed Asian countries. "Absolutely. Ultimately, you have to understand that India cannot stand up to China without American help and support. America cannot stand up to China without Indian help. That is the symmetry in this relationship.

Desai, notably, said that the current standoff in Doklam should not be viewed merely as a Indo-Sino face off. He went on to say that how the Doklam standoff would ultimately get resolved depends not just on negotiations between New Delhi and Beijing but on "what happens in the South China Sea".

Full-scale India-China war likely soon, Washington will back New Delhi: Meghnad Desai : India, News - India Today



Things globally had been relatively quiet since the lunatic Trump became president putting Washington in a turmoil of chaos. However, CCP Dictator-Tryants in Beijing appear to have figured wrongly that nobody would start shooting over a highway in Butan. It is in fact much more than that.

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The motive here is China is trying to recreate the "silk road" to open up a land corridor into Eurasia, and are willing to steal Indian territory to do it.

joG said:

This is only one of the increasing number of flash points of the budding multipolar world. By mid century we should expect one or other of them to graduate from a small military offensive to a regional or super regional nuclear encounter. It is yet much too early for any natiin to provoke war with the US directly, so we are relatively safe in that respect for now. But we will be tested by attacks on our allies whuch will become more probing as we let red lines be pushed aside.

But the clear and present threat is the growing probability of the regional skirmishes between nuclear of near nuclear nations. All you need is for 20 bombs to go off for rather disastrous results for us. This could occur even now.

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I completely agree. We may not be at risk as of yet, but when our allies are being threatened there's only a matter of time before our allegiance gets tested.
I hope they're able to work this out. The last thing the world needs is a World War or a war in general. Can't we all just focus on peace and climate change?

Fathis Crowe said:

I completely agree. We may not be at risk as of yet, but when our allies are being threatened there's only a matter of time before our allegiance gets tested.
I hope they're able to work this out. The last thing the world needs is a World War or a war in general. Can't we all just focus on peace and climate change?

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No, we should not be focusing on " climate change". Its a politically driven manufactured narrative thats part of a larger left wing agenda.
A agenda thats been overwhelmimgly rejected since 2010

Quag said:

Rulers have tried to distract their populations with wars in the past, but it never turns out well when you start fighting with someone who is militarily stong. Look what happened in the Falklands.

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Distraction and rah-rah is a tired old trick in the bag of tricks rulers have had for millennia.

Beijing can do a small scale conflict with India but, as has been noted, not much between China and India can remain small.

India has been building its Navy too and it now controls the north access to the Strait of Malacca. India has completed new and huge naval and air force facilities at the Andaman Islands to establish its control of the Strait.

Indian Navy has two aircraft carriers and a third under its own construction plus India has the U.S. Navy and Japan as recently developed Strategic Partners to include Australia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia. India opposes CCP Dictators in Beijing in the South China Sea and has done joint Naval exercises with USN, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Australian Navy, Vietnam Navy, Malaysia Navy. India has been doing resource exploration off Vietnam under contract with Hanoi despite Beijing shouting and hollering at it to stay out of the Beijing claimed waters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is strongly pro USA and was chum of his best pal Barack who got supply and logistics deals from Modi to include ship repairs and the like. Modi has met with Potus Trump who has assured continued stronger relations. Beijing cannot get too aggressive here despite the Chinese false confidence PLA and armed forces can wipe the roof to the floor with the India armed forces.

The Chinese have no clue what hubris is so they have to be, ahem, introduced to it -- at some point sooner or later. Sooner is of course better. For instance, eighty percent of China's oil imports are from the ME so they pass south of India and through the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea. Beijing cannot afford either a military bust up in those places nor can it overcome a naval and air blockade around the South China Sea and out to the western Pacific (from Taiwan and the Philippines).

Potus Trump has unshackled the U.S. Pacific-Indian Ocean Commander Admiral Harry Harris in Hawaii who wants fiercely to return China's artificial islands in the SCS to nothing more than high tide. If the Maoist Xi Jinping gets himself a good war going he may go ahead to cancel the fall Party Congress and declare himself Emperor. Which would make Trump's domestic troubles look like a Scout Jamboree.

chuckiechan said:

The motive here is China is trying to recreate the "silk road" to open up a land corridor into Eurasia, and are willing to steal Indian territory to do it.

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Yes, India has already said no proposed New Silk Road through it. So this new CCP highway in Butan is a CCP attempt to isolate the northeast part of India from the country. This would surely precipitate a military conflict if Beijing does not relent.

Thailand has said no to the proposed Maritime Silk Road design to slash a canal through the Isthmus of Kra in the southern part between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Thailand also said no to a CCP proposed 900 km rail line from the southern Thailand port of Raynong to Kunming in SW China, the main objection by Bangkok being China wanted to own and populate the land route.

Iran has already thrown the proverbial cold water on a Silk Road route through its northern section, Beijing's insistence on land ownership being only one objection. Tehran knows the road would become Chinese populated extending out from it.

Putin has moved new troop deployments to the Stan countries which don't want a Silk Road to Europe breaking up their countries and which Putin certainly does not want moving into his sphere of influence throughout central Asia.

European Union has told Beijing no dice unless European investors in EU countries can participate in the proposed, "One Belt, One Road" silk road project. The New Silk Road scheme by Beijing is but another grandioise bust, same as the Brics turned out to be and same as the CCP created Asia Investment and Infrastructure Bank is bust.

Brics have already fallen with Brazil gone fiscally bust and India viewing CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing as the enemy, while Russia is busy begging for cash bucks to compensate for sanctions by EU-Nato-USA and by USA itself. Beijing has seeded AIIB with only $40bn when it promised $1 Trillion. Times are tough in China as real economic growth is 4% at best, more like 2.5% in contrast to the "man-made" official figures of 6.5%.

It's convenient and propituous to the good guyz that all these nefarious schemes are stillborn while Trump fiddles. Trump in fact backed off last week on the one positive action he definitely needs to do, which is trade punishments against CCP Dictators on IP theft. We need to hit the Dictator-Tyrants hardest on this one yet Trump turned to mush over it.

Quag said:

But between India and China I dont see any small skirmish, these are the 2 most populous couuntries on the planet and both are armed with nuclear weapons

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Well, it would depend. They have had skirmishes before. That doesn't mean a new one could not escalate nicely. That would not necessarily be all bad, unless they used so many nukes that we went into nuclear night. It might persuade the international community that we need a communal, general and robust solution for international security and protection of populations.

China's expansionist agenda is very dangerous. Between them and their mad dog, North Korea, the region could explode.

joG said:

Well, it would depend. They have had skirmishes before. That doesn't mean a new one could not escalate nicely. That would not necessarily be all bad, unless they used so many nukes that we went into nuclear night. It might persuade the international community that we need a communal, general and robust solution for international security and protection of populations.

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If the nukes start flying I think it'll be too late to try and get any kind of communal international security solutiuon.

Quag said:

If the nukes start flying I think it'll be too late to try and get any kind of communal international security solutiuon.

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Maybe one would have to wait till the dust has settled.
And that might take some time depending on whether we are talking four or three hundred bombs.

Nota Bene: somewhere between 4 and 300 probability is that at one point or another there will be little point in worrying about communal security. That much is true.

Fenton said:

No, we should not be focusing on " climate change". Its a politically driven manufactured narrative thats part of a larger left wing agenda.
A agenda thats been overwhelmimgly rejected since 2010

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Oh well if people voted against it, then that settles the science.

CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing are certain no one can resist an overbearing China. In Beijing this includes the United States. China has had the attitude for a couple of thousand years. A hard lesson is coming for the Boyz of Beijing sooner or later. Sooner is better.

Beijing gets self-righteous at the drop of a bom, er, dime. Beijing is expert in lecturing and scolding....


China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday said India has been building up troops and repairing roads along its side of the border amid an increasingly tense stand-off in a remote frontier region beside the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.

“It has already been more than a month since the incident, and India is still not only illegally remaining on Chinese territory, it is also repairing roads in the rear, stocking up supplies, massing a large number of armed personnel,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

“This is certainly not for peace.”

India has said it warned China that construction of the road near their common border would have serious security implications.

China says India building up troops amid border stand off



Beijing has a 'no first use' policy concerning nuclear weapons. India also has a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons. Pakistan has a policy of no first use of strategic nuclear weapons but everyone believes Pakistan would use tactical nuclear weapons if it were losing a conventional war, presumably against India.

India has only strategic nuclear weapons but since mid-year defense and military officials no longer in government have been saying India needs to revise the no first use policy. CCP Dictators-Tyrants in Beijing are taking a good deal of well deserved heat from New Delhi...


Politicians in India fear China’s growing role in Pakistan, long accused of being a terror hotbed, has “a malign effect on all of South Asia” and “throughout the world.”

Baijayant “Jay” Panda, a member of the Biju Janata Dal party (BJD) said China’s influence in Pakistan “has awful effects because they provide support to Pakistan to give them shelter on the issue of terrorists.”

Panda, who made the statements at the inaugural edition of the India-U.S. Forum at the Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi on Monday, added, “They are giving them cover in the United Nations so that known terrorists, terrorists known to the intelligence agencies of the U.S. and India and other countries, are not being designated as such because of China’s veto in the security council. So, it has a malign affect on all of South Asia, but really throughout the world."


https://www.dawn.com/news/1280873


PLA forces at the border of India are currently insufficient to invade India as PLA did in the month long 1962 war PLA itself started, ceased and withdrew from. In 2017 India and USA can see from space any PLA forces en route or gathering, among other surveillance, recon and intelligence capabilities.

CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing are certain no one can resist an overbearing China.

CCP demands India withdraw its small unit of troops from the shutdown road construction site before any "negotiations" can begin.

CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing are making a lot of belligerent noises publicly while Butan and India have issued one statement between them since the Indian troops stopped the road construction last month. So maybe hearing from some Indians of expertise would be helpful....



Phunchok Stobdan is Former Indian ambassador and Senior Fellow, Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses who who speaks of India's objection to the CCP proposed New Silk Road through its state of Arunachai (One Belt, One Road)....

All this actually started after the visit of Dalai Lama to Arunachal. Then, our decision not to attend the OBOR summit and the visit of the prime minister to the United States have really upset the Chinese.This is related to the [Butan-India-China] tri-junction and could be a huge and strategic political loss. As compared to this, our problem with Pakistan looks like peanuts. (emphasis added)




Alka Acharya is former director, Institute of Chinese Studies....

Indian government’s Dalai Lama patronage is not new – and India is not the only country which has reservations over the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative). The Chinese have been clearly irked – and they have conveyed it fairly strongly in the past. The extension of the road is also part of their ongoing infrastructure development, which will be linked to the BRI. The question is, who gains what from this episode.





Ashok Kantha is Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies and former Indian ambassador to China who makes things more than clear....


China’s action in the Doklam plateau can be seen as part of its assertive behaviour of pursuing its contested territorial claims through muscular action. You can see a certain pattern in what is happening in the South China Sea, East China Sea and elsewhere, in Chinese pronouncements that it will not surrender an inch of its territory and its characterisation of those territorial claims as its core interests. The Chinese are stating that their claims over Doklam plateau are ‘indisputable’, though they are fully aware that Bhutan believes that this area belongs to them. We should look at the Chinese action in this light.

"The construction of the road [in Butan at the India border] will involve a significant change of status quo with serious security implications for India.




Claude Arpi is the India-based French expert on India, China and Tibet who notes India and Butan have a treaty that makes aggression against Butan aggression against India....

"China just ‘tried her luck’ and started building a road on a territory which is disputed, thinking that India would not defend Bhutan. It was a wrong judgment from Beijing’s part.

"China broke her undertaking not to change the status quo. The entry of Indian troops was done in consultation with the Bhutanese government. For India, it had too important strategic implications to let go."







Shivshankar Menon, India’s former national security advisor, asserted that the current stand-off was serious due to China’s attempt to change the status quo and its unwillingness to return to the status quo.

The official statements from China have been rather intense, with references to the 1962 war and talk of “serious consequences”.

“The incident is serious because this is an attempt by China to change the status quo. They were trying to build a road, which would change the situation at the tri-junction.” Menon believes that there seems to be a fundamental difference in the attitude of the Chinese. “This time, they don’t seem to be willing to go back. The rhetoric is much more heated. They have asked us to withdraw first, before talking,” he said.

China has repeatedly asserted that India had to withdraw first unconditionally, before starting any “meaningful dialogue”.




It also happens that "the bulk of" the India Army to include four divisions of mountain infantry are always positioned within ten km of the vital Himalayas tri-junction of Butan, India, China.

Butan and India have been almost completely silent publicly since the standoff began a month ago. Private discussions are reported to have "hit a wall."

The road CCP wants to construct is on the plateau above steep and deep valleys and it is the only "motorable" connection between the northeast states of India and the India subcontinent states and population. CCP claims sovereignty over the northeast states area as well as the northern third of India below the tri-junction area, to include the huge state of Arunachai.



https://thewire.in/154449/expert-gyan-india-china-bhutan/


Tension at trijunction: India-China standoff over Bhutan clash | The Indian Express

In this image taken from footage run by China's CCTV on Friday, artillery guns fire during a live-fire drill by the Chinese army in China's Tibet Autonomous Region that borders India. AP



India has broken its official silence in response to Beijing's constant barrage of bluster while negotiations about negotiations about how to negotiate have collapsed.

Beijing said ten days ago it would send in PLA forces if India had not withdrawn from the Doklam tri-junction borders of Butan, China, India. India a month ago stopped PLA construction of a new road border that would sever India's northeast provinces from the subcontinent mainland.


China and India on ‘brink of armed conflict’


India has grown concerned at China’s ties to its arch rival Pakistan, viewing their trade corridor across Kashmir as an infringement of its claim to the whole of the region. Prime Minister Modi refused to join President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road initiative in May. China has warned New Delhi not to be drawn into a Western military alliance led by the United States and including Japan. Modi has sought closer ties with both. “There will be no happy ending for this confrontation,” Indian foreign policy expert C. Raja Mohan wrote in the Indian Express newspaper, adding that India was unlikely to give in.



On Friday, India’s defence minister Arun Jaitley told parliament that the country’s armed forces are “prepared to take on any eventuality” of the stand-off, Indian Express reported the same day.

Indian defence experts warned that once the first shot is fired, the conflict may escalate into full-scale war. That in turn could result in New Delhi blockading China’s maritime lifeline in the Indian Ocean. “Any Chinese military adventurism will get a fitting reply from the Indian military,” Dr Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy, a research associate at the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, told the Post.


This from Beijing meanwhile sounds like a plan: “The PLA will not seek to fight a ground war with Indian troops early on. Instead it will deploy aircraft and strategic missiles to paralyse Indian mountain divisions stationed in the Himalayas on the border with China,” a military insider told the South China Morning Post on condition of anonymity, adding that he believes Indian troops will probably hold out for “no more than a week”.


Beijing-based naval expert Li Jie said that India in 2010 established a naval base in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, close to the Strait of Malacca, where the narrowest sea channel is just 1.7km wide. “Since 2010, India has also upgraded two airstrips on the islands to serve fighters and reconnaissance aircraft,” he said. “All these moves pave the way for India to be able to blockade Chinese military and commercial ships from entering the Indian Ocean in the event of a naval conflict between the two countries.”


We note that in July, India, the United States and Japan completed their 10-day Malabar 2017 naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal, while around the same time the US approved the US$365-million sale of military transport aircraft to India and a US$2-billion deal for surveillance drones.

So as a result, the Indian navy now has eight top of the line Boeing P-8A Poseidon submarine hunters patrolling in the Indian Ocean. Macau-based military expert Antony Wong Dong said that both sides have underestimated each other. “If the border conflict expands to the sea, it will be very difficult for the PLA (and Navy) to defeat the Indian navy, whose capabilities are much stronger after the purchase of the P-8A Poseidon submarine hunters,” he said.

China and India on brink of armed conflict as hopes of resolution to border dispute fade | South China Morning Post


Anything the CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing try in the Himalayas will be countered in both the plateau/mountains and on the seas by India. In India they still say "The War" in referencing the PLA successful 1962 surprise one month invasion across the northern borders and the PLA quick withdrawal as India wuz fumbl, er, regrouping to respond. India doesn't go looking for wars so 55 years have passed since "The War." A lot of otherwise patient people in India think that now the time has come. That this is it. CCP Dictator-Tyrants think meanwhile they are on top of the world. It's how the mighty fall it is.

CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing have more Donald Trumps at the top then they allow the public to know or to be aware of.....



India Showing Maturity On 'Tantrum-Throwing' China On Doklam: US Expert

Praising India's conduct over the Doklam standoff with China, James R Holmes, professor of strategy at the US Naval War College, said New Delhi has done things right thus far


Indian mountain infantry troops guard border area near the disputed Doklam Tri-Junction of Butan, China, India, high in the Himalayas. AFP


India is "behaving like a mature power" in tackling the Doklam standoff in the Sikkim sector and making China look like an adolescent throwing a "temper tantrum", a top American defence expert has said.

James R Holmes, professor of strategy at the US Naval War College, said, "New Delhi has done things right thus far. It is behaving as the mature power and making China look like the adolescent throwing a temper tantrum," Dr. Holmes the former Navy captain retired said.

Dr. Holmes said it was "weird" that China wanted to keep alive a [land] boundary dispute with its most formidable neighbour. "If China wants to pursue an assertive maritime strategy, it needs secure borders on land so it doesn't have to worry about overland aggression from its neighbours," he said. "In other words, confronting India in the Himalayas is not a purely rational course of action driven by rational cost/benefit analysis," said the professor.

On why the US has remained silent so far on this issue, he said the current administration has too much on its plate. "If the dispute escalates, chances are Washington will come out in support of New Delhi," Dr. Holmes said.

India Showing Maturity On 'Tantrum-Throwing' China On Doklam: US Expert


Indeed.

I had a good chuckle watching this video India news channels are running today. (All I can do is to present the link.)

It shows Indian troops stopping the PLA engineers in June constructing the road that started the stink going on.

Indian troops while unarmed walked up to the PLA unarmed engineers and bear hugged the PLA guyz to pick 'em up and drag 'em off. Other Indian troops disabled the heavy construction equipment. PLA guyz were squirming, wiggling and kicking air trying to escape the hugs by the bigger Indian guyz.

Even better the video report is interspersed with shots of Xi Jinping in uniform on PLA anniversary day August 1st reviewing the troops and barking propaganda slogans. I don't know how the India tv reporters kept a straight face throughout the 3 minute video report.


[video]http://indiatoday.intoday.in/video/india-china-delhi-trade-doklam-the-global-times-anti-dumping/1/1026076.html[/video]


In a strategically key move, India has poured in more troops along the entire stretch of its border with China in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh in the face of heightened rhetoric by Beijing over the Dokalam standoff, senior government officials said on Friday.

The caution level among the troops has also been raised, the officials told PTI.

The decision to increase the deployment along the nearly 1,400-km Sino-India border from Sikkim to Arunachal Pradesh was taken after carrying out a detailed analysis of the situation and considering China's aggressive posturing against India on Dokalam, the officials said.


India today hit the CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing with trade war tariffs on a number of goods. The Boyz in Beijing huffed that it isn't worth their while to retaliate. Trump's trade guy who was Reagan's trade guy is supposed to announce today a big investigation of China IP violations that's expected to lead to trade war hits of between 20% to 40% tariffs on China IP violations by the end of the year. Potus is authorized by law to do exactly this on his own.

Reports are thick U.S. is providing India with all kind of intelligence info on the PLA presence at the border. India has moved several army corps along 1400 km of the India-China border as analysts say Beijing has begun to look at this dubious enterprise as a big mistake.

Good on the good guys.

China's not stupid enough to start a 2/3 front war, unless they have had assurances from Trump & Putin.

Battalion said:

China's not stupid enough to start a 2/3 front war, unless they have had assurances from Trump & Putin.

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You'd need to elaborate plse thx.

Cause over on this side there's the fact three weeks ago India opened a new wing as they call it to their border intelligence agency the SSB which gives 'em 650 new agents, personnel, technology etc at the borders of Butan and Nepal. The new wing popped up out of nowhere a couple of months after the strongly pro-USA Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Potus Trump in Washington and after CCP started building its own road in Butan to try to sever northeast India from subcontinent India.

India said no in May to the CCP new silk road project. Putin has moved new forces of troops into the Stan countries in his sphere because he doesn't want a new silk road through those countries any more than the countries want it, which they don't. Thailand said no to a railway to China and no to a CCP canal scheme through Thailand as the maritime silk road. Iran doesn't want China slicing off the northern part of Iran via a new silk road.

If a land conflict breaks out over the Butan Tri-Junction strategic region in the Himalayas India has been clear it will blockade the Strait of Malacca to CCP oil flows from the ME that also have to transit the Indian Ocean. Potus Trump continues former Potus Obama's guarantee to CCP Dictator-Tyrants in Beijing that USN will blockade China out of the Scarborough Shoal off Luzon if CCP tries to build artificial islands there. Scarborough Shoal is where U.S. drew the line years ago in the South China Sea and that is where the line remains.

Then there is CCP, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, USA in a tangle.

China is very stupid. Much more than stupid enough. Way beyond stupid enough.

China knows it cannot become a global power unless or until it first becomes a regional power. It's only friend in the region is North Korea. And Kim Jong Fat hates China. Putin visited Pyongyang last year and he's still smarting over it cause he's been getting it from all sides since. Xi Jinping has to get himself re-elected at the Party Congress in the fall. All of which with much more yet gives Xi a Great Plate. AKA: indigestion.

Quag said:

But between India and China I dont see any small skirmish, these are the 2 most populous couuntries on the planet and both are armed with nuclear weapons

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Well it was last time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

On the contrary the fact it a major was could be so damaging is exactly why they insured it was kept to a limit.

Red_Dave said:

Well it was last time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

On the contrary the fact it a major was could be so damaging is exactly why they insured it was kept to a limit.

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Perhaps but no military actions reduces the chances even more