Indian analyst says india will use Andaman&Nicobar island to blockade China
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Hendrik_2000
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Need Carrier strike group to provides air wings and SSN around
Right now, a few surface combatants is not good enough
Hendrik_2000
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Why? the 2nd largest oil exporter is Angola to China is in west africa Ship transporting oil can sail to cape hope and down Indian ocean to west of Sumatra then cross the Sunda strait to south China sea bypassing Malacca strait or Andaman
Chinese navy from Djibouti can meet the tanker south of India and provide escort
Jura The idiot
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I now briefly checked by how much the trip would be prolonged if they circumnavigated Australia:Why? the 2nd largest oil exporter is Angola to China is in west africa Ship transporting oil can sail to cape hope and down Indian ocean to west of Sumatra then cross the Sunda strait to south China sea bypassing Malacca strait or Andaman
Chinese navy from Djibouti can meet the tanker south of India and provide escort
at 10 knots, sea-distances.org says Cabinda, Angola to Sydney is about 34 days, then Sydney to Canton is 19 days = 53; Cabinda to Canton takes about 36 and a half day
Hendrik_2000
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I guess at one time Maldives government offer China land to built naval base for a fee
What do you know China Naval Task force start visiting Maldives
Not sure if this offer still stand If it is it would be perfect sitting south of Sri Lanka west of Sumatra
It could be just access to the port instead of base
What do you know China Naval Task force start visiting Maldives
Not sure if this offer still stand If it is it would be perfect sitting south of Sri Lanka west of Sumatra
It could be just access to the port instead of base
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Dude. Why do you continue to buy into Indian propaganda? You seriously need to consider the credibility of the articles you're reading. Do you even know how a blockade works? You need a superior navy in both quality and quantity in order to successfully blockade a country. India has neither of those prerequisites and lags far behind China. The only area I could see India having an advantage is in carrier aviation because they have operated carriers for a couple decades now (for China, it is only five years). But the Chinese are catching up really fast and IMO are ready to stand toe-toe with the Indians (by 2020, they will have a clear advantage) in this regard. And if the Indians unwisely decide on such actions, they'll be a guaranteed Chinese reaction in the form of aerial bombardment of Indian industrial centers. A naval blockade would escalate events into a total war because maritime shipping is pretty important to China; the latter would enforce a tit for tat approach by striking Indian cities with conventional artillery. In a war of attrition, India is almost guaranteed to lose when up against the Chinese. And I'm not even addressing your nonexistent knowledge on how economically viable a blockade is; one only needs to look at 1980's Iran as an example.
Why are you even reading Indian propaganda? LOL
. I have my dose of bad news outlets such as Breitbart and CNN, but Bollywood propaganda takes it to whole different level (on par with KCNA perhaps?).
plawolf
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India is climbing down, so it's a moot point, but even in the event of war, there is zero need for Chinese civilian shipping to tip toe around in the Indian Ocean.
The Indian 'analysist' who suggested the idea is a pure moron, plain and simple, as he clearly doesn't understand how international trade works.
Even if India only targeted Chinese flagged civilian cargo ships, that will open up Pandora's box for them, as that will make it impossible for any of their western cheerleaders to offer them even token verbal support, and it will make all Indian military and civilian ships fair game for the Chinese.
The PLAN can sit a thousand miles off the Indian coast and rain cruise missiles on their ports and key infrastructure with impunity while PLAN subs can wreak havoc to the Indian fleet closer to shore and also covertly sow mine fields off the Indian coast, and all in the name of defending freedom of navigation.
Any Indian island bases use to attack Chinese civilian shipping can be easily cut off from supply and reinforcements. After they have been starved half to death and bombard to hell and back, the PLAN can use them to practice amphibious assault for real.
Even if China doesn't keep those islands outright, a condition to their return to India will be that they can never again be used for any military activity, with a Chinese or UN monitoring force in place if needs be.
A boarder war in the Himalayan boarders will be massively humiliating and crippling for the Indian military, but minimally damaging to India as a whole.
However, a free-for-all open war (India attacked Chinese civilian ships in international waters first, thus making Indian civilian infrastructure fair game for Chinese reprisals) on India's coasts could quite easily set Indian economic and social development back by decades. Just how bad will depend entirely on how much China wants to hurt them.
TBH, I think one of the reasons China held back in Donglang was because a fight there would give China very limited scope to truly hurt India.
With how biased the west is, any war involving China, irrespective of the actual facts, will get blamed on China, with all the usual China-threat 'intellectual' prostitutes swarming out of the woodworks to spew their party line lies.
China would pay a big reputational damage for a mild slap on the wrists for India, which hardly seem worth China's while.
However, if India gift-wrapped such a golden opportunity for China to effectively eliminate India as any remotely credible possible future competitor for the next several decades or even century, well, China might well just take India up on that offer.
The Indian 'analysist' who suggested the idea is a pure moron, plain and simple, as he clearly doesn't understand how international trade works.
Even if India only targeted Chinese flagged civilian cargo ships, that will open up Pandora's box for them, as that will make it impossible for any of their western cheerleaders to offer them even token verbal support, and it will make all Indian military and civilian ships fair game for the Chinese.
The PLAN can sit a thousand miles off the Indian coast and rain cruise missiles on their ports and key infrastructure with impunity while PLAN subs can wreak havoc to the Indian fleet closer to shore and also covertly sow mine fields off the Indian coast, and all in the name of defending freedom of navigation.
Any Indian island bases use to attack Chinese civilian shipping can be easily cut off from supply and reinforcements. After they have been starved half to death and bombard to hell and back, the PLAN can use them to practice amphibious assault for real.
Even if China doesn't keep those islands outright, a condition to their return to India will be that they can never again be used for any military activity, with a Chinese or UN monitoring force in place if needs be.
A boarder war in the Himalayan boarders will be massively humiliating and crippling for the Indian military, but minimally damaging to India as a whole.
However, a free-for-all open war (India attacked Chinese civilian ships in international waters first, thus making Indian civilian infrastructure fair game for Chinese reprisals) on India's coasts could quite easily set Indian economic and social development back by decades. Just how bad will depend entirely on how much China wants to hurt them.
TBH, I think one of the reasons China held back in Donglang was because a fight there would give China very limited scope to truly hurt India.
With how biased the west is, any war involving China, irrespective of the actual facts, will get blamed on China, with all the usual China-threat 'intellectual' prostitutes swarming out of the woodworks to spew their party line lies.
China would pay a big reputational damage for a mild slap on the wrists for India, which hardly seem worth China's while.
However, if India gift-wrapped such a golden opportunity for China to effectively eliminate India as any remotely credible possible future competitor for the next several decades or even century, well, China might well just take India up on that offer.