Category: INDIA’S CHINA STRATEGY
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Chinese Perceptions of India By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
India’s revocation of Article 370 and promulgating Ladakh as a Union Territory has raised concern and reinforced views of ulterior Indian designs on China. Relations between India and China are rapidly changing. In the recent past there have been some articles from both China and India which highlight this change. In one strain, Chinese authors opine that…
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Will China Go To War?
Will China got to war is a question I have been asked many times. My answer has been that China will go to war when it is fully prepared and Xi Jinping is confident of Victory. In Chinese thinking, victory has to be political. Further questions are why will it go to war, with whom…
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Indian Response to China’s Overtures
The article in Global Times praising India and spinning ‘Bharat Narrative’ needed to be viewed in the correct perspective. To that end, Lt Gen Dushyant Singh (R) and I had a very informed discussion. He and I approached the issue from two different positions to reach the same conclusion. China cannot be trusted. This article is…
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India China Competition 2024
The relationship between India and China will be one of competition just short of conflict in 2024. I have out lined the contours of this competition in this video.
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Changing India China Equations
The Chinese view of India is changing and that is what I have tried to capture in this video. The first part of this video is an update on the India Canada spat.
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DO UNTO CHINA WHAT DOES TO INDIA : AN INDIAN STRATEGY
This is a combination of a set of ideas which have come about based on various inputs. Very simply put, there is a clear anxiety developing in China regarding India. There is also a new awareness. However China’s play book remains the old and it does want to budge from its old positions. High time…
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4D Strategy to Counter China
Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia and I discussed the 4 D strategy India needs to adopt to counter China. It revolves around – Defending the LAC, Denial of space in the neighbourhood, Diplomacy to balance and Domination of the maritime space. We had spoken about it peripherally often. Today we got down to fleshing out the…
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A Peek Into Everyday China : The Indian Pushback
India has started to hold its own in international forums and is pushing back against China even if it has to plough a lonely furrow. China is increasingly getting the taste of a resolute and rising India.
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Ex Buland Bharat : PLA Blocked at Sakteng
In 2020, at the height of the Eastern Ladakh crisis, I wrote an article highlighting the danger and real intent of China claiming Sakteng. That is given below. Ex Buland Bharat an integrated surveillance and firepower exercise conducted recently in the Mandala Heights of Western Kameng District is more than a mere exercise. It effectivly…
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China’s India Perceptions and Compulsions
The eight episode of the China Challenge was the best episode of the series so far. They say that it is always good to know on what lies on the other side of the hill. Understanding what the Chinese think is important. This interaction was intuitive to that effect. The questions posed by the audience…
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