Chinese Troops Cross Into India, Fortify Positions

Legal Insurrection ^ | 5/24/2020 | Vijeta Uniyal

[TheConservator]

The border tensions between China and India have escalated once again, after hundreds of Chinese troops crossed into Indian territory. Soldiers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) breached the Indian border at multiple locations in the northern Himalayan region of Ladakh, Indian media reports said on Saturday.

“Chinese had managed to come well inside the Indian territory and are also conducting aggressive patrols with motor boats in the Pangong lake,” Indian broadcaster NDTV reported. “The Chinese troops crossed 3 km into what India perceives to be its territory South East of the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh,” Indian news website The Print confirmed.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I agree that the Republicans were all in on the cheap labor express until President Trump straightened them out, but Democrat presidents also signed a lot of these trade deals.

[yarddog]

Not a lot the Indians can do about it.

[Vermont Lt]

This is because two fools got into a fist fight last week.

Pretty sure this is not an Arch Duke moment.

[Arcadian Empire]

1. Rome outsourced the manufacturing of cheap widgets.

2. Rome fell.

[Arcadian Empire]

Many Republicans are still for selling out to China for cheap materials and cheap manufacturing.

[Arcadian Empire]

Looks like the border has been in dispute since the 1962 Sino-Indian war.

Looks like the border is in dispute in the 2020 Sino-Indian war.

[IronJack]

Ladakh, Tibet, Taiwan, the Spratleys ... the Long March never ends, eh Mr. Chairman?

Does this expansionism remind anyone else of another Asian country in the mid 1930s and early 40s timeframe?

[Vision]

Have any links to substantiate that?

[Arcadian Empire]

Eviscerate China’s economy and see how loyal the people are.

[beethovenfan]

“Nation shall rise against nation...” - It’s all happening just as prophesied. Make sure Jesus is your savior before it’s too late.

[Arcadian Empire]

Alas, the widgets chapter of the history of Rome was locked in a box by an ancient scribe, who lost the key and swore to tell no one where the box was until he found the key.

Decades later, he handed his grandson an iron key, and said that if the grandson returned at sunrise the next day, the location of the box would be revealed to him.

However, the grandson was killed, grasping the iron key, with the Latin inscription

parva excambium operariorum in perpetuum

written on his chest.

Just hours later, his grandfather was found killed, with the same Latin inscription

parva excambium operariorum in perpetuum

written on his chest as well.

[drypowder]

IMO: This is the CCP’s lefthand moving, beware of their discrete righthand’s actions. Reasonably, this is most likely a diversion.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Nowhere did I encounter anti-British sentiment although there may well be some residual sentiment. As for the Chinese, I am sure that they will go to war with

A neighbor from New Zealand who worked in Nepal once told me that after the British withdrew from India, they took a survey to see how the Indian people felt about the Empire's departure.

It turned out that some 80% of Indians never even realized the British were there.

[stuckincali]

I remember that widgets in rome were very expensive, only the wealthiest patrician family’s had them.

[RoseofTexas]

They saw an open door, and they’re going for all the world domination marbles!! And why not? They have the backing of the evil globalist along with our own demonic from the pit of hell mediaVOMITS! Geez I wonder how they are going to blame this on trump! You know they will!

[Zhang Fei]

[As for the Chinese, I am sure that they will go to war with someone - ANYONE -in the near future. The internal pressures are too great. The leaders NEED a war.]

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The lessons of history are obviously long forgotten. I blame Barbara Tuchman’s cockamamie book about mobilization schedules causing WWI. Kings go to war not because they need to, but because they want to. What they’re after is to make a name for themselves that will stand the test of time. By a country mile, the most famous Greek is Alexander, just as the most famous Roman is Caesar. That’s no accident. For better or for worse, conquerors will always have a special place in the history books. War is like a large scale hunt in which the guy who organized it and brought home a lot of trophies puts his name in neon lights for posterity.

Heck, even the losers become famous in ways nobody expected. Without his disastrous loss at Carrhae, just how well-known would the richest man in Rome, Crassus, be?

[gr8eman]

He meant Injun territory!

[DoughtyOne]

That’s been my policy for decades.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

India has nukes and can defend itself. Not our problem.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

If the Indians really want this to stop, they should go on full military alert and flood massive numbers of troops to the region while readying all strategic weapons. It then looks like a massive overreaction and runaway escalation. The Chinese are doing this because they think they can without any consequences. India isn’t the pushover it once was. They have real weapons today. Could they beat the Chinese in an all-out conventional war? No. But the Chinese would take major blows from such a conflict making it completely not worth whatever they may gain. And if it went nuclear? Even worse for everyone involved.

The Chinese aren’t stupid; they’d back down. You just have to convince them you’re crazy enough to go all-in.