Posted on 09/14/2020 8:25:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing India-China border dispute, the state-run Chinese newspaper Global Times has published an interesting online commentary in which it argues on the case for war, claiming moral high ground for such a conflict and letting the world know that it was not Beijing that wanted a military confrontation.
Written by Global Times' Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin, who has been indulging in anti-India propaganda ever since the border confrontation started in early-May when Chinese troops started to violate the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the article asserts that the "Chinese people do not want war".
It, however, adds: "But we have territorial disputes with several neighbouring countries encouraged by the US to confront China. Some of these countries believe that the US support provides them with a strategic opportunity and try to treat China outrageously. They believe that China, under the US' strategic pressure, is afraid, unwilling or unable to engage in military conflict with them. Thus they want to pull the chestnuts out of the fire."
Calling on the Chinese society to be ready for a war, Hu notes that "wars cannot be fought casually, and we must win if we are to fight."
Hu further writes: "Such winning has two meanings: First, it means defeating the opponent on the battlefield; second, it must be morally justified."
While Hu has not mentioned India once in the commentary, the write-up is clearly aimed at the ongoing India-China conflict at the LAC. Hence, one needs to ask Hu and those defending Beijing in the current conflict: what moral justification is there to stir up trouble along the LAC suddenly when the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic?
Can they justify the People's Liberation Army (PLA) diverting its troops suddenly from a military exercise to areas along the LAC, including at Pangong Tso, Galwan Valley, Depsang and Gogra-Hot Springs?
Meanwhile, Hu acknowledges that "China is not the strongest power in the world" and is worried about the US helping build "an anti-China alliance that challenges our strategic position even more" in case the country wins on the battlefield.
He goes on to write that China is "confident to win on the battlefield if conflicts are fought with neighbouring forces that have territorial disputes" with the country. A lot of what has been written online recently by Hu and Global Times suggests that India is inferior to China militarily. However, such believers would do only good to themselves by acknowledging that 2020 is no 1962 and the Indian military - Army, Air Force and Navy combined - is no less powerful than the PLA armed forces. And on the battlefield, it’s not just the military prowess that helps secure wins, but also the guts and glory of the troops. And Indian soldiers are known to excel in them.
Talking about the propaganda in which China needs to engage in before starting a war with a neighbouring force, Hu says Beijing needs to do the following:
- First, we must make it clear that the other side, not China, is the one that breaks the status quo. (The world is aware who has violated peace and consensus along the LAC.)
- Second, we also need to make it clear that the other side is the provocateur in a complex situation. (The events from early-May clearly show the PLA is the provocateur.)
- Third, we must make the international community see that China has made hard diplomatic or political efforts to resolve tensions before the war. (Like assuring during the military-level talks during the day to maintain status quo and then sending in troops in the night to alter the same.)
- Fourth, the first shot is fired by the other side, not China. The international community should be fully aware of this. (What happened at Galwan Valley and at Pangong Tso south bank is reflective of the real events.)
- Fifth, only in extreme situations, if we need to fire the first shots, we must deliver an ultimatum in advance so that a just war can be started in an upright manner. (Continued attempts to change the status quo on both the southern and northern banks of Pangong Tso prove who is 'firing the first shots'.)
Well, I don’t think it’s wise for the Chinese to assault the Indians with edged weapons, considering the two nation’s military histories. Especially with China’s snowflake soldiers.
RE: Especially with China’s snowflake soldiers.
It’s very dangerous to underestimate YOUR ENEMY.
That’s a statement from Chinese Generals, not me.
RE: That’s a statement from Chinese Generals, not me.
Interesting. Can you cite a reliable news source for this?
so that a **just war** can be started in an **upright manner**.
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Chinese political speak
Talk such as this is a clear sign of a genocidal maniac: China has made hard diplomatic or political efforts to resolve tensions before the war.
Let's see.... Uighurs, Honk Kong, South China Sea, agression against India and designs on the "five fingers," seeking a causus belli in Taiwan....Xi is clearly suicidal.
Too bad our government has lost sight of this simple truth over the past 70 years.
...India raises you a gun...
...and so on, and so forth.
Xi Jinping is in DEEP trouble in Communist China. Other factions within the CCP are battling him for supremacy. China's economy is tanking and their people hate the lock downs caused by the CCP-Coronavirus. How does a totalitarian 'leader' unite his people behind him? Start a war! The problem is, Xi believes his own rhetoric, that China's destiny is to rule the world, and he expects other countries to believe that, and bow at his feet. He is sadly mistaken.
That is the problem with totalitarian leaders.
They would rather take their whole country down with them, rather than lose their power over the country.
PLA soldiers ARE snowflakes. They grew up in their single child homes being treated like little princes - you know this personally from your time in Taiwan.
I see the glorification of the PLA these days on CCTV - their propaganda shows them defeating the Japanese in WWII and the Americans in Korea. Basically, they are telling their people that the PLA is invincible in any conflict.
When their little princes are coming home in boxes and bags by the thousands (if at all), the Chinese people will understand that two year conscripted boys do not become professional soldiers.
I put the odds in favor of the Indians. The Chinese might have nice “toys” but they lack resolve.
Indians have home field advantage.
Both countries have nukes. There are no winners if this becomes a full scale war.
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