[crz]

“The bottom line is that China will crush India”

Like the Mongols did?

India will whip China’s ass like the Mongols found out.

The only one in history that managed to handle India would be Alexander the Great. And even he did not take the whole country.

[Zhang Fei]

[“The bottom line is that China will crush India”

Like the Mongols did?

India will whip China’s ass like the Mongols found out.

The only one in history that managed to handle India would be Alexander the Great. And even he did not take the whole country.]

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Neither the Mongols nor Alexander are remotely comparable. Both had recently conquered vast areas of land and were at the limits of their logistics. Those areas needed to be pacified and assimilated into their empires. As it turns out, neither managed to do that effectively. Alexander was probably poisoned, and the Diadochi broke his empire up into multiple states. The Mongols obviously divided up into multiple hordes. Without Genghis Khan to keep them together, the Mongols simply could not function as a coherent unitary power. Whereas today’s China is clearly a unitary state.

China defeated India in 1962, declaring a unitary ceasefire and withdrawing only when the Enterprise stood ready to provide air support to India. The difference today is this - where the disputed areas were more or less equally remote for both countries back then, they are no longer remote for Chinese forces. China has blasted roads and tunnels through Tibet in order to make what was once remote, accessible as a matter of routine. That difference means, more than ever, that Indian victory will depend of American aid, much as the threat of US intervention in 1962 caused the Chinese to beat a hasty retreat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War