Yeah and? I do not find them at all that threatening, not that I am recommending to let our guard down when it comes to India, heck no. What I am asking is to put things in a proper context and perspective. All I am seeing from some the esteemed members of this forum is the unhinged level of diatribe against a country that's not close to China's comprehensive power. We already know the Indian propensity to exaggerate, to boast, and yes, lie without blinking but such is the current mindset of India or maybe in perpetuity. Again, so freaking what.
Some members come to this forum to vent on the Jai Hinds, because it is practically politically-incorrect to call them out in mainstream spaces. Yet the Jai Hind media have no such restrictions. What I do agree is that we need to moderate our banter with the Jai Hinds, and prevent it from becoming pure hatred. I despise the Jai Hinds, but the world would be so boring without them.
None of India's erstwhile neighbours like her very much or fond of India due to their inherent tendency to dominate and domineer their entire society as if India is acting like their know-it-all boss when its not even capable of running its own domain, let alone another country's. That's how much power it wield within its own region, and somehow some of us here are convince that we need to tackle India in a violent way and dramatic way to teach her a lesson in humility? and what guarantee that such wunderkind plan would pan out the way some of us think it would.
Yes, India is ruled by loincloth imperialists, and nobody in Asia likes them very much. India is a middle power, not a big threat to China, but are still relatively dangerous with the military and nukes that they have. It is not worth it for China to nuke them, but it is very worth it for them to nuke China. They do not have as much influence left in their neighbourhood as in decades past, but they still have the military and economic might to threaten the smaller nations.
I do not advocate for China going out of its way to start armed conflicts with India. But I would advocate for China to keep a sizable military force to deter and threaten India. Just as India have been threatening China's waterways by militarizing the Andaman-Nicobar Islands, and pointing their Agni missiles at Chinese cities.
I much rather China engage India in the manner and context that's fit for her and its people. Let's give that country and people some degree of deference and respect, even if grudgingly.
I understand what China is doing and agree with it from a grand strategy standpoint. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that people like me are gonna start following in China's footsteps and start giving India respect.
For a country that's supposed to be so shitty, they still managed to outperform the countries in the Global South they are championing in Africa and elsewhere.
I'll disagree with you here. For a country of 1.4bil, with the talent pool they have, the technological and industrial base that they have, and a less challenging geopolitical climate, they are a failure. If India was a country of 200mil population, it would have been behind countries like Nigeria, Brazil, and Indonesia. Does India have all the potential to become a great power? For sure! But it is their failure in governance and mindset that condemns them to their level of achievements. It also does not help that India is an imperialistic nation, albeit with none of the competence of true imperial nations.
I don't want India's entire digital ecosystem to be cemented forever with the West.
Absolutely no! I don't want any shred of India's digital ecosystem in China, or in anywhere else in the East. I don't want to see Gaumutra or dried cow dung for sale on any online stores near me. The West can have all of the Indian digital ecosystem for all I care.
China must be able to penetrate that market for strategic reasons and nothing else. Like a famous quote said: "let your friends close, but keep your enemies closer" which perfectly capture the strategy China must have with India.
Yes, I agree with "keeping your enemies closer", but not too close please. Yes, China should have a piece of India's market to milk them for cash. I enjoy watching India's trade deficit with China grow wider. But business must only be on China's terms, which is transactional only. No ToT or co-development BS. India needs to buy Chinese batteries? Yes, charge them market prices and make money out of them. Hell no to setting up any battery factories or R&D centers in India. That bromance phase is over, and that was 100% India's fault, not China. As long as India continues to discriminate against China, threaten China, and messes around with Xizang, there can be no business-as-usual.
