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This brings to front what changed today and who changed it.
1. So we had a bad road alignment, Quality till DBO, the old road was/upgraded to a new alignment that can be easily maintained and is open year round.
2. Only 44 kms of of hard topping remains.
(Source : Nitin Gokhale) https://twitter.com/ashu_chdry/status/1264792247381434370
1. So we had a bad road alignment, Quality till DBO, the old road was/upgraded to a new alignment that can be easily maintained and is open year round.
2. Only 44 kms of of hard topping remains.
(Source : Nitin Gokhale) https://twitter.com/ashu_chdry/status/1264792247381434370
3. We have done a good job in upgrading the infrastructure.
4. We can now maintain camps and a much much larger force close to the LAC. Year round.
5. The road is on the western banks Shyok and Tangtse rivers.
4. We can now maintain camps and a much much larger force close to the LAC. Year round.
5. The road is on the western banks Shyok and Tangtse rivers.
6. Branch roads to camps adjoining the LAC... Which were earlier maintained by foot and air. These are now single/two lanes hard top roads.
7. Our camps till DBO have grown by leaps and bounds. In quantity and quality.
7. Our camps till DBO have grown by leaps and bounds. In quantity and quality.
Alll this is seen as change in status quo by China. Wherein a better infrastructure and manpower deployment is seen as a build up.
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Opinion : China/PLA's perception of India is meek and poor. That we can meet and match their infrastructure on our sode makes them uneasy.
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Opinion : China/PLA's perception of India is meek and poor. That we can meet and match their infrastructure on our sode makes them uneasy.
Hence, they are trying an aggressive posture to coerce India into reversing out recent improvement.
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Diplomacy : China and India are engaged in extensive diplomatic maneuvers. China is being agressive, so is India. On ground nothing is being left to chance.
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Recent PRC's foreign briefing had no mention of India. It's only to avoid a hyphening of the two countries.
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Recent PRC's foreign briefing had no mention of India. It's only to avoid a hyphening of the two countries.
PRC treats other countries as inferior or rival/equal. It knows it knows India isn't behaving being inferior to them, also does not want to treat India as an equal/rival.
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So it chose the ignore and give importance to the issue.
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So it chose the ignore and give importance to the issue.
Classic "head in the sand" so the world also won't give importance to it either. At this point I am unsure what PRC wants to achieve, every one know the LAC is tense.
We are having a stand off. China blinked last time, India didn't.
This will be long summer.
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Any kinetic conflict is not what anyone wants. But PRC is risking their reputation this time. If it goes to 'shots fired'. It will be an interesting turn of events.
This will be long summer.
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Any kinetic conflict is not what anyone wants. But PRC is risking their reputation this time. If it goes to 'shots fired'. It will be an interesting turn of events.
*Hypothetical scenarios if things go kinetic, it will depend on what the political leadership wants than our military capabilities.
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I'll do a thread on it later.
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I'll do a thread on it later.
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