The Chinese are traditionally not ferocious fighters. A large part of China was conquered by Japs during 1937-1945 period. What actually made China so powerful was their economic might and better technology (tech goes hand in hand with economic progress). 1/

Unfortunately except for a brief period of Narasimha Rao regime, India has broadly remained socialistic in her approach and polices. While we took the short cut of providing freebies and doling out cash transfers to the poor with minimal focus on economic growth and ease of 2/

doing business, the 'communist' China attracted capital, brought in international technology (only with a view to steal and copy) and facilitated businesses. India continued to see businesses as not growth engines but only an easy source of revenue and a low hanging fruit to 3/

be plucked in every hour of need. While China became the factory to the world, we devised ingenious ways of taxing our businesses and investors with no qualms taxing businesses even retrospectively. The red tape and corrupt babudom kept harassing new projects and old 4/

Indian businesses with the same equanimity.The HNIs of India were seen as 'fair game' to be 'shaken down' a little more whenever needed. No wonder Hari Narayan Iyers of India either died or left for greener pastures abroad. A link to know more on this - https://twtext.com/article/1254255047048863745 5/

While Indians are one of the best fighters in the world with very high motivation, the Chinese military budget is around 5 times that of ours.Indian military technology/weaponry remained mired in corruption and our factories kept cranking out military hardware which was hardly 6/

up to the mark. China meanwhile came very close to threatening even USA with their cutting edge military technology and advances. https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/chinas-military-power-may-surpass-the-uss-faster-than-you-think-thanks-to-6-shrewd-strategies/articleshow/70819589.cms 7/

While we must defend every inch of our land with all that we've got,escalating the military scenario as of now may not be in our interest. The focus needs to be on increasing our economic might, ensuring that the world depends on Indian manufacturing and upgrading technology. 8/

Why do you think the world is not vociferous enough in denouncing China even after the virus they've unleashed on the planet? It is their economic and military might. Military might is usually a natural corollary to economic might (given population). The present government 9/

needs to understand the importance of economic growth and power that accompanies it. Mere hollow slogans of 5 trillion economy will not help as long as the attitude of the government is not friendly to businesses in general and manufacturers in particular. Modi ji has shown 10/

publicly his love for 'mere mazdure bhaio, mere kisan bhaio, mere garib bhaio', but not even once he's said 'mere businessmen bhaio'. As long as economic polices are decided with electoral designs, forget beating China we will not be even coming remotely close to it. /END

This is a thread written in a slapdash manner, just whatever came to my mind. Excuse typos, spellings..

I wanted to show how a nation of lazy opium-drinkers could metamorphose into a formidable power on the basis of economic growth and progress. @nisheethsharan @kansaratva

The time is not right for scoring points or smiting people with sarcasm. Some other day, some other situation!