Background.
(a) Xi Jinping, the President of China, accompanied by his wife, arrives in India on a three day visit.
(b) A border incursion and a tamasha of sorts is played out on the Line of Actual Control at Chumar,
eastern Ladakh by the PLA and a handful of civilians by refusing to allow the ongoing road building activities on the Indian side of the LAC. The fact was that it started on 10 Sep, days
before the visit and continued during his visit, prompting him to say that he'd given the necessary
instructions. But the mockery continues to this day, nonstop.
(c) Xi Jinping returns to his country and in an address to his armed forces exhorts them to be fully
equipped to win 'regional wars' in his capacity as the chairman of the 'central military
commission'.
(d) China calls for a flag meeting of the military personnel from both sides to solve the Chumar
fiasco.
History.
(a) China has shown duplicity, coupled with a sinister design all through, in her dealings with India.
(b) During the fifties and the sixties, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was straddling
the world's stage like a colossus with his advocacy of not being aligned to either the US or the
USSR - the then two superpowers - and the policy of 'Panchsheel' - shorn of all the niceties, it
harped on peaceful coexistence - with China.
(c) Nehru, along with, Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia were calling
the shots on the shenanigans of the two superpowers in the name of the 'cold war'.
(d) Nehru, also, made a strong pitch for China to be a permanent member in the UN Security Council
hoping that such diplomatic niceties would bring that country closer to his!
The sinister game that China played.
(a) For Mao Tse Tung and China, Nehru having become a statesman, respected all over the world
was bad news. His wings had to be clipped.
(b) China has always wanted to be the sole leader among the Asian nations. She never wants India to
share that space on equal terms.
(c) The Chinese forces gave a crushing blow to the Indian armed forces during the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962, which shattered Nehru's confidence completely.
The error that India had committed.
Buoyed by his success on the international diplomatic arena, Prime Minister Nehru even went to the extent of wanting to reduce the strength of his armed forces. An egotist defence minister, in the form of VK Krishna Menon and the subserviant senior officers of the armed forces - how can they ever be pardoned for pushing their men into the harshest of fighting conditions of the Himalayas without proper logistics viz. clothing, arms and ammunition and clear cut directives - made matters worse despite the heroics, on the battlefield, in the face of the most daunting of challenges!
History being repeated?
(a) China wants to know as to how the present Indian leadership would react and hence, the eyeball to eyeball confrontation at Chumar for starters. It cannot afford to lose that psychological war and will therefore, try all the tricks available to give herself an upper hand!
(b) She seems to be having problems with almost all of her neighbours - Japan, Vietnam and India along with her traditional adversary, Taiwan. Opening too many fronts can be to her disadvantage or does she harbour the notion that her huge military assets can take on everyone at one go?
(c) The latest input is that she's cross with India over her recent overtures to Japan.
My take.
India should stand firm and continue with the task of connecting the border areas near the LAC, with the necessary infrastructure that her armed forces had always been asking for.
Tailpiece.
China needs to be tackled with diplomatic finesse without lowering our guard, ever! And give her a 'bloody' nose if she were to embark on a misadventure of a regional war with us!!
(a) Xi Jinping, the President of China, accompanied by his wife, arrives in India on a three day visit.
(b) A border incursion and a tamasha of sorts is played out on the Line of Actual Control at Chumar,
eastern Ladakh by the PLA and a handful of civilians by refusing to allow the ongoing road building activities on the Indian side of the LAC. The fact was that it started on 10 Sep, days
before the visit and continued during his visit, prompting him to say that he'd given the necessary
instructions. But the mockery continues to this day, nonstop.
(c) Xi Jinping returns to his country and in an address to his armed forces exhorts them to be fully
equipped to win 'regional wars' in his capacity as the chairman of the 'central military
commission'.
(d) China calls for a flag meeting of the military personnel from both sides to solve the Chumar
fiasco.
History.
(a) China has shown duplicity, coupled with a sinister design all through, in her dealings with India.
(b) During the fifties and the sixties, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was straddling
the world's stage like a colossus with his advocacy of not being aligned to either the US or the
USSR - the then two superpowers - and the policy of 'Panchsheel' - shorn of all the niceties, it
harped on peaceful coexistence - with China.
(c) Nehru, along with, Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia were calling
the shots on the shenanigans of the two superpowers in the name of the 'cold war'.
(d) Nehru, also, made a strong pitch for China to be a permanent member in the UN Security Council
hoping that such diplomatic niceties would bring that country closer to his!
The sinister game that China played.
(a) For Mao Tse Tung and China, Nehru having become a statesman, respected all over the world
was bad news. His wings had to be clipped.
(b) China has always wanted to be the sole leader among the Asian nations. She never wants India to
share that space on equal terms.
(c) The Chinese forces gave a crushing blow to the Indian armed forces during the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962, which shattered Nehru's confidence completely.
The error that India had committed.
Buoyed by his success on the international diplomatic arena, Prime Minister Nehru even went to the extent of wanting to reduce the strength of his armed forces. An egotist defence minister, in the form of VK Krishna Menon and the subserviant senior officers of the armed forces - how can they ever be pardoned for pushing their men into the harshest of fighting conditions of the Himalayas without proper logistics viz. clothing, arms and ammunition and clear cut directives - made matters worse despite the heroics, on the battlefield, in the face of the most daunting of challenges!
History being repeated?
(a) China wants to know as to how the present Indian leadership would react and hence, the eyeball to eyeball confrontation at Chumar for starters. It cannot afford to lose that psychological war and will therefore, try all the tricks available to give herself an upper hand!
(b) She seems to be having problems with almost all of her neighbours - Japan, Vietnam and India along with her traditional adversary, Taiwan. Opening too many fronts can be to her disadvantage or does she harbour the notion that her huge military assets can take on everyone at one go?
(c) The latest input is that she's cross with India over her recent overtures to Japan.
My take.
India should stand firm and continue with the task of connecting the border areas near the LAC, with the necessary infrastructure that her armed forces had always been asking for.
Tailpiece.
China needs to be tackled with diplomatic finesse without lowering our guard, ever! And give her a 'bloody' nose if she were to embark on a misadventure of a regional war with us!!
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