“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.
This is the kind of fight that China traditionally excels at. It’s a calibrated battle. A large ‘raid’ basically. Like Korea and the Vietnam Border ‘war’. The rhetoric that the Chinese are recklessly throwing around makes it a virtual certainty that there will be fighting. And India will be left with a decision as to whether it wants to escalate — meaning the Chinese are counting on India re-evaluating.