Wednesday, June 17, 2020

My take on our response to China.

Here are the names of the 20 Indian martyrs who'd laid down their lives at the Galwan valley, fighting the Chinese :-

  3 Med Regiment

  1. N/Sub Satnam Singh
  2. N/Sub Mandip Singh

  16 Bihar

  3. Col B Santosh Babu
  4. Sep Kundan Kumar
  5. Sep Aman Kumar
  6. Nk  Deepak Singh
  7. Sep Chandan Kumar
  8. Sep Ganesh Hasda
  9. Sep Ganesh Ram
 10.Sep KK Ojha
 11.Sep Rajesh Oraon
 12.Sep CK Pradhan
 13.N/Sub Nandu Ram Soren
 14.Hav Sunil Kumar

  12 Bihar

  15.Sep Jai Kishore Singh

   81 MBSC

  16. Hav Bipul Roy

   3 Punjab 

  17. Sep Gurtej Singh
  18. Sep Ankush
  19. Sep Gurwinder Singh

   81 Field

  20. Hav K Palani

RIP Bravehearts! My salutes, tears and prayers!! Your martyrdom shan't go unpunished!!! Here's wishing that your near and dear ones have the strength to tide over these stressful times.

The Chinese were brutish, savage and inhuman in their approach. Where has their professionalism gone? They need to be given a bloody nose for their misadventure.

Why did they embark on this exercise now?

The reasons are many, let me hazard some guesses :-

   * Xi Jinping is coming under increasing pressure for his mishandling of the Corona virus crisis
      within his country.
   * The WHO apex body deciding to go through the reasons behind the outbreak of the Corona virus
      at Wuhan and as to why there was no spread of the virus into the other regions of China but had
      become a worldwide pandemic. India's Dr. Harshavardhan is slated to take up his post in the
      WHO shortly and China fears that the pace of the investigation is gonna pick up.
   * With President Trump and the US battling it to control the riots against racism, the Chinese bet
      is that the US is too preoccupied to come to India's aid against it.
   * There's trouble brewing against it from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam.
   * The countries of the world are currently fighting to contain the pandemic and once that is done,
      the entire lot will unite to take on China for their handling of the COVID-19 crisis. The onslaught
      could be through economic, diplomatic means to make it a pariah!
   * The acceptance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a leader of world stature by the comity of
      nations.
   * The slapping of a Chinese Major by a young captain of the Indian Army sometime last month
      resulting in a considerable loss of face for the PLA Army.
   * The feeling that the communist, KP Olli's government in Nepal was tilted to their side
      consequent to its border row with India.
   * Pakistan, its all weather ally, continuing with its game of pitting terrorists against India on the
      LOC.
   * Most importantly, it wants to hurt India economically when it's just undergone a stringent lock
      down and a consequent downturn of its economy.
   * Did I miss out the scrapping of Art 370 of the Constitution? By making Ladakh a Union
      Territory, the Chinese think that India would next claim Aksai Chin as its rightful territory!

And of course, the Congress party seems to be in glee that such a thing has happened on the LAC with its strange pro-China stand. Would be interesting to note as to where the loyalty of the CPM is?

And What Must India Do? 

    * Recognise Tibet and make it clear that the Galwan pass and eastern Ladakh form part of our
       border with Tibet and not China. Oversee the inauguration of the Dalai Lama as its first
       Prime Minister.
    * Establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
    * Support the people of Hong Kong for their justified cause against China's high handedness.
    * Dump the use of Chinese products, blacklist them and clear them off our markets.
    * Reinforce our existing troops on the LAC with additional troops, artillery, tanks and armoured
       carriers along with appropriate assets of the IAF.
    * Alleviate the woes of Vietnam that it has with China in the South China Sea.

The dragon needs to be taught a lesson, come what may.


Tailpiece.

Got up at our usual time, the chores and was ready by a half past 9. It was a comparatively quiet day. 

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