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The PLA scuttled any chance of warming ties by intruding into India with 1500 soldiers in 1 area and a few hundred in 2 other areas. As a consequence, India refused to "accept" many Chinese "suggestions" forcing the Chinese to scale back their offer of $100 billion in Investments to $20 billion, lower than Japans $35 billion (both over 5 years).

The question is, whose tune is the PLA marching to? Xi Jinping is also the head of the military commission. Many here in India suspect that this was the Chinese way of testing Modi. If so, they picked the wrong guy at a time when the US and Japan are both courting him. One fallout is that a Chinese official media team coming to India for "interaction" with Indian media, suddenly had their permissions scrapped.