There is no way for Chinese troops to invade India, separated by the highest mountain range in the world. Which rules out conventional war. India has tough soldiers in Gurkha’s, Marathi’s and Sikh’s. All totally fearless. Which means China can not win a mountain war.
So it will boil down to air war. If the defenseless Chinese manufacturing centers are destroyed, there goes the $500 Billion trade surplus with United States. The riots in China will be of historic proportions.
Keep in mind China is an export dependent system. India is not. Indians can survive a devastating war better in my opinion. Technologically India has progressed by orders of magnitude compared to the last border skirmish with China.
“compared to the last border skirmish with China”.
Bingo!!!
It has happened in the past,
Along with Viet Nam India has many time in the past “skirmished” with them Chi-Coms.
Just maybe the next time it may escalate pat the skirmish stage.
>There is no way for Chinese troops to invade India, separated by the highest mountain range in the world. Which rules out conventional war. India has tough soldiers in Gurkha’s, Marathi’s and Sikh’s. All totally fearless. Which means China can not win a mountain war.
China’s no slouch at mountain warfare as they demonstrated in Korea. The big limiting factor for China is their lack of a working logistic system.