Posted on 11/06/2020 11:39:14 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
A tense border standoff between India and China, sparked by a deadly clash in June, could still escalate into a larger conflict, India's top military commander said Friday.
Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat said India would not accept any shift of the de facto border, so the potential for ongoing tensions to heat up "cannot therefore be discounted."
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top military commander said on Friday a tense border standoff with Chinese forces in the western Himalayas could spark a larger conflict, even as senior commanders from both sides met near the frontline for their eighth round of talks.
Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat said the situation was tense at the Line of Actual Control, the de facto border, in eastern Ladakh, where thousands of Indian and Chinese troops are locked in a months-long confrontation.
"We will not accept any shifting of the Line of Actual Control," Rawat said in an online address.
"In the overall security calculus, border confrontations, transgressions and unprovoked tactical military actions spiralling into a larger conflict cannot therefore be discounted," he said.
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China should have no problem taking India if the election goes the Democrats way. The Democrats would most likely support the China invasion of India.
Your on your own India! Beijing Biden and Kommie Kamala ain’t coming to help you. They are both CCP compromised.
What makes you think that China could defeat India? There’s no place to march armies through between the two nations. India could sit back and slaughter any Chinese forces that try to force the narrow mountain passes. China doesn’t have enough force projection to attack India by sea. Not does it have any overwhelming Air Force. India’s Air and Naval forces are quite capable.
And India has Ghurkas.
Plus, India can cut off China’s oil any time. China will have to wait and see if their lackies, Biden and the Rats take the White House. As it stands Trump will back up India. The RATs are owned by the ChiComms.
I hope it starts tomorrow
when did China start to go full blast on its South Sea island-building program? 2009
True. Harris might have Tamil blood, but she would bow to Biden’s chicom grovelling without question, as far as influencing his decision making functions (as limited as they are with his dementia)
China has little interest or need to take on India.
Taiwan is the target. Always has been.
This is the kind of toothpick campaigning that the PLA was really good at in Korean. Fighting to capture high-ground against UN/US/SK Forces. Often the fighting was geared to ‘influence’ the rather lengthy ‘peace talks’ which were going on parallel to this fighting. I can’t imagine the PLA descending from the Himalaya’s to occupy a chunk of Northern India. It’s probably more about negating India’s political influence in Nepal & Tibet.
China had the foresight to ensure that Biden was already bought and paid for, plus they've been instrumental in his attempts to steal the election.
Could be. but I suspect it’s about keeping India from intervening when China invades Taiwan.
China needs to neutralize Japan as well.
All of this would be possible if ChiCom Joe gets in White House. But it’s still possible that Japan and India would still intervene. Japan especially will be at risk if Taiwan falls.
They probably have some interesting pic of Biden,too..?
Yep, China just got the go-ahead.
I doubt that India would or could do much to support Taiwan. India has a strong sense of its own interests. That’s kind of why India & the USA seemed like a good strategic partnership. But now, with Biden?
India could cut off China’s oil. Can’t sail modern ships without fuel. India might have the vision to see how detrimental Chicomm control of Taiwan would be to their long term interests. Once China has Taiwan it can turn it’s eyes on eastern Africa and isolating India.
Well India better do it now, because most likely, come January, they’re on their own.
To do that the Indian Navy would have to push their Navy toward Indonesia to block access to the Indian Ocean. Otherwise your looking at a major battle in the open ocean, perhaps out of range of India’s #1 strength (it’s air force). Think they have the logistics to pull that off? What would Indonesia’s stance be on that? What would Pakistan do? (Attack rashly, they always do). I see your point, but India’s strength and their strategic aims might not align just yet.
Yes there is.
Make alliance with Pakistan, promise them the Kashmir region in exchange for letting Chinese forces pass through to India. There are roads between Pakistan and China.
Let’s say China does that. India’s Army would not be any sort of pushover for China. Especially with China’s “snowflake” soldier problem.
Japan & Taiwan are probably both less than 120 days front aquiring nukes. The political leadership simply needs to give the order. There won’t be any amphibious landings if either couuntry conducts a test. The Bravo Test at Bikini showed that WW2 style fleet concentrations are a obsolete absent a permissive environment.
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