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Predictably China is blaming India for the current crisis:

Hindu nationalism risks pushing India into war with China

By Yu Ning Source:Global Times Published: 2017/7/19 23:43:39

Since Indian troops illegally crossed into the Doklam area, China and India have been locked in a stand-off for over a month. Regardless of China's call urging India to withdraw its troops that have crossed the border, New Delhi has continued its provocation. At the same time, anti-China sentiments are rising in India with an upsurge of nationalism.

India harbors deep strategic suspicion toward China. It considers China as a rival and a potential enemy. For a long time, it has hyped that China is pursuing what is called the "String of Pearls" to encircle India. Despite China's goodwill in inviting India to join the Belt and Road initiative, India insists on interpreting the project as a part of China's strategic containment and encirclement of it.

Since India's defeat in the Sino-Indian War of 1962, some Indians have been stuck in a zero-sum mentality in dealing with China. The war inflicted lingering pain on India and it became a hard knot to untie, leading to an ingrained suspicion of Chinese strategy. China's development is seen as a misfortune to India. The faster China grows, the more fearful they are.

Nationalist fervor that demands revenge against China has taken root in India since the border war. The election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fueled the country's nationalist sentiments. Modi took advantage of rising Hindu nationalism to come to power. This, on one hand, has enhanced his prestige and ability to control the country, but on the other, has made India more subject to the influence of conservatives, thus hampering reform. In diplomacy, New Delhi is demanded to act tougher in foreign relations, especially toward countries like Pakistan and China. The border row this time is an action targeted at China that caters to the demand of India's religious nationalists.

The Modi government can do nothing if religious nationalism becomes extreme, as shown in its failure to curb violent incidents against Muslims since he came to power in 2014.

Where the China-India competition goes hinges on each side's strength and wisdom. India is weaker than China in terms of national strength, but its strategists and politicians have shown no wisdom in preventing India's China policy from being kidnapped by rising nationalism. This will put India's own interests in jeopardy. India should be careful and not let religious nationalism push the two countries into war.

So it will be a war between the largest communist autocracy and the largest democracy on earth. If war starts, India should stay away from military targets and bomb only the manufacturing plants in China. China is a export dependent economy. If China loses half of the $500 Billion export surplus with just the United States, it will be a huge catastrophe.

India should note that the factories have no anti-aircraft weapons, and will be much easier to destroy than military targets. That is what United States did in WWII to Germany & Japan, and both were unable to sustain their capacity support the war effort.

India’s nationalism is the best thing going for them. It makes people more patriotic and keeps radical Islam in check. There are no hordes of Muslim immigrants in India akin to France, Germany, Sweden etc causing terrorism.

The indigent Muslims of India know from experience what happens to them at the hands of Hindu nationalists when Muslims perform terrorist acts. When Hindu pilgrims traveling in a train were torched near Dohad by Muslims, the Hindu’s killed ten times as many Muslims in Gujerat.

There is some truth in those comments. Remember that Modi is a fundamentalist Hindu. The BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) is the political arm of the RSS. The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh) was founded in 1925 to establish an exclusively Hindu state. DJS (Dharm Jagran Samiti) is a wing of the RSS and Uttar Pradesh DJS head Rajeshwar Singh said in December 2014, “Our target is to make India a Hindu Rashtra by 2021. The Muslims and Christians don’t have any right to stay here. So they would either be converted to Hinduism or forced to run away from here,”

Ion’t trust the Chicoms nor do I trust the ruling party in India. The good news of this standoff is that Rajeshwar Singh’s plans to forcibly convert or expel Christians by 2021, will be put on hold. From my POV, a border war between China, Pak and India for a couple of years, would not be the worst thing that could happen. It would keep their minds off attacking the Christians and possibly reduce their offensive capabilities toward the rest of the world.

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