Posted on 06/10/2020 1:34:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There is mounting tension deep in the Himalayas between two of the world’s most powerful and populous nations.
Chinese media has aired pictures of civilian planes full of soldiers holding guns headed towards its mountainous border with India where clashes have flared in recent days.
Anger has been building between the two regional powers over their 3500km border, which has never been properly demarcated.
According to senior Indian officials, India had responded and mobilised its troops also.
“Our build-up matches the Chinese deployment, if not more, in terms of troops, support elements, force multipliers and aerial support,” a senior official told the Hindustan Times.
There have been numerous face-offs and brawls between Chinese and Indian soldiers at the frontier, which has been the source of numerous minor conflicts and diplomatic spats since a bloody war between the countries in 1962.
However, they have become more frequent in recent years.
As recently as May 9, several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a high-altitude cross-border clash involving fists and stone-throwing in Sikkim state.
Indian officials said that within days, Chinese troops encroached over the demarcation line in the Ladakh region, further to the west.
Now there are fears the tensions may boil over into a larger conflict as a media — both social and traditional — war blows up between the two nations.
China and India are the world’s largest nations in terms of population, but in terms of raw manpower China has a slight edge with a population of 1.384 billion people to India’s 1.296 billion.
Analysis from Global Firepower currently ranks China as the world’s third most powerful nation in terms of military strength, behind the United States and Russia. India sits just below them in fourth place.
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* China currently has more than two million active military personnel ready for combat, compared to India’s 1.4 million.
* India, however has a massive pool of 2.1 million citizens it can call upon as reserve personnel. China in comparison has just 510,000.
* China has a far higher defence budget, standing at $US237 billion to India’s $61 billion. China however has over three times the level of external debt India has.
* In terms of military equipment, China is stronger in the air with 3210 aircraft at their disposal to India’s 2123.
* Both China and India have nukes.
* China also has a naval advantage with 777 ships at its disposal to India’s 285.
* India however has more land power, with 4295 tanks to China’s 3500.
Maybe India should use catapults to fling all that pooh they have on the streets over onto China. Biological warfare!
Yes,China’s more powerful...and China’s leaders are murderous psychopaths.India is a very unfortunate country...sharing a border with the two filthiest,most murderous countries on earth.
A lot of China’s military is designed to project power into the South china sea or to invade Taiwan or to fight America on the ocean, and that isn’t going to do much on the ground against India.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if China gets tied up in a war with India and we decide to join in on India’s side and really mess China up. Just a thought.
I’d love to see the Sikhs and Gurkhas kick some Chicom butt.
How is India going to get its tanks to China When the ChiComs control both the sea and the air?
India will win any war they fight with China because India will be getting help from the US. I don’t mean in the sense of US troops or anything like that, but one can be certain we would be giving every bit of intel on Chinese movements and intentions ect...etc... that we can get, and good and accurate actionable intel is, in many cases the difference between who wins and who loses. In the case of India vs China, India will have the better intel and the US will see to that fact.
It would...but if that were to happen you just know that Kim Jong Fat Boy would get word from his masters in Beijing...”hey,fat boy,if you wanna cause some trouble for the Yankee Imperialists we won’t get in the way”.
China has a slight edge in population with only 88 million more people.
India didn’t do a very good job of it in 1962.
China pretty much kicked their ass.
That’s true. That’s especially true if they can become sister city with San Francisco who could help a lot in that regard
Submarine tanks?
Not going to happen. However, "As recently as May 9, several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a high-altitude cross-border clash involving fists and stone-throwing in Sikkim state.". Was it stones they threw? It gets really cold up there on the border, and shit freezes rock hard.
RE: India didn’t do a very good job of it in 1962. China pretty much kicked their ass
I wonder how China could kick India’s ass in 1962, but couldn’t do the same to a smaller Vietnam in 1979 and all throughout the 1980’s...
India, China border dispute: Is China more powerful than India?
India however has 4295 tanks to China’s 3500.
New 1000+ Chinese Type 99 tanks are among the best in the world, 125mm smoothbore gun, rounds penetrate 600mm, 9M119 ATGM and long rod APFSDS rounds. Very fast 1500hp engine on 52 ton machine
India’s 366 Arjun MK2s with unarmored turret, its 120mm rifled main gun, sabot rounds with only 300 mm penetration; but it can fire on the move which the T99 cant. Slow with only 1400 HP on a 68 ton machine
The Arjun would have to hit the same spot twice to penetrate a T99
Verdict: T99 no contest winner.
China also has a few new nuclear powered ballistic subs
My bomb is bigger than your bomb!
I don't know about the answer to the question, but if two nations each with over one billion in population, it could really be a bloodbath unprecedented in history.
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