The Chinese would like nothing better than to put a very big, humiliating hurt on India. The point of the lesson would be that if and when China is engaged with the invasion of Taiwan, the Indians should not even think of making trouble on their frontier or attempt to recover lost territory.
Trump: miss me yet.
... in parking garages, I'll bet.
Let them destroy their respective cesspool countries. Just do it!
One possibility is that India is keeping China off balance at our request.
Another element... India’s male vanity took a hit during the major clash earlier. Border treaty precludes firearms, but hand to hand combat, with PRC troops wielding ten foot, spiked iron bars killed around 20 Indians, with no Chinese deaths reported.
Many reported after-actions, were spun up by Indian propganda as major strategic victories that settled who was who, once and for all, even though no credible reports of Chinese troop participation or casualties seem to have been involved.
I’ll take a smidge from column A, a smidge from column B, and thank our courageous Indian allies for their continuing valor.
India, China agree to push for early disengagement at disputed border
January 25, 2021