The PLA statement called Indian proffers forde-escalation as “ unreasonable and unrealistic” and sermonized to Indian Army that they should be satisfied with what has been achieved till now without getting further militarily ambitious. Basically, it means that the PLA is in no mood to normalise the situation along the 1597-km Ladakh LAC as it asks the Indian Army to recognize the same bilateral border agreements that the Chinese army itself forgot by unilaterally executing the May 2020 transgressions in Galwan, Pangong Tso, Gogra and Hot Springs.
The PLA statement is in line with its Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping’s aggressive statements to take over popular Taiwan in the name of reunification. From Chinese public day on October 1 to Taiwan public day on October 10, the PLA air force tested Taipei’s beleaguered defence by flying further than 56 fighters and nuclear able bombers on a single day to brow- beat the popular bitsy Islet nation.
Although Chinese combativeness is frequently a combined function of its domestic and transnational situation, the unusual aggression from Beijing comes after AUKUS pact on September 15 which allows Australia to get nuclear submarines from US and UK, the Quad peak on September 24 and the high intensity nonmilitary exercises between Quad mates and between US-UK processions in the Indo-Pacific. Add to this the failing Chinese real estate mammoth and energy extremity, we get a veritably potent admixture. The PLA aggression on Ladakh in May 2020 also came after Beijing was hit encyclopedically for keeping the deadly coronavirus, which has origins in Wuhan, under wraps in cahoots with the WHO leadership. Two times after the epidemic broke in Wuhan, nearly five million have failed and the world has lost trillions of bones in profitable dislocation. This is without indeed counting the societal impact and internal trauma the world had to go through and is still going through without any responsibility from China. Any country who so much as raises the responsibility issue faces retribution from Beijing.
With US military power coming under question after Pakistani ISI backed Sunni terrorist force, the Taliban, militarily seized Kabul on August 15, the Chinese aggression now matches of an uncontrolled superpower who isn’t willing to yield an inch that it perceives its own. Beijing’s information warfare also matches its tone- declared superpower status with political fires being lit in vicinity of republic opposing Chinese Communist Party’s combativeness through media and news aggregators. Combine this with the military psy-ops wrapped out routinely by Chinese propaganda media, the global perception of Beijing is several notches above than its factual capabilities.
Given that the Chinese cyber and automatic intelligence capabilities, indeed by recent admission ofex-Pentagon’s software specialist, exceed the US capacities, India must be prepared for further combativeness from Beijing as the ultimate won’t let up in pressure. It’s time that the Indian fortified forces understood that the future wars will be won in cyberspace accompanied with stage-off munitions rather than intricate land pushes by tanks or army. The air wars will be fought with swam drones and fortified unmanned platforms, which the PLA has in large figures, rather than manned fighters which will be chased by Chinese acquired S-400 fired face to air dumdums. The ocean will be ruled by nuclear submarines and unmanned ocean drones mapping the abysses rather than leviathan aircraft carriers which can be targeted by Chinese ballistic boat killer dumdums. With US leading the way, India needs to garner its massive software gift to make up obnoxious and protective cyber defence capabilities or the battle will be over indeed before it starts.
In fact, the Indian geographical situation is similar that no country can avoid its applicability and salience when it comes to China or to Af-Pak terrorism. While it has deep strategic ties with US, India also has a veritably close relationship with Russia and France. It’s a voice of credibility in Saudi Arabia and UAE, two of its closest abettors in Middle East. It’s India that can bridge the current gap between France and US over Australia preferring American nuclear submarines by cancelling the order of French erected diesel attack platforms and cement over the division within republic.
While Beijing prescribes an independent foreign policy ( readanti-US) for India, it’s the PLA which is pushing India towards a corner by its aggression and military structure development along the 3488 km LAC. Indeed the so- called strategists talk about India staying down from US as the right path to pacify China. Quadrangle, in fact, is the only counter to Chinese numero uno plans.
