Indian involvement in South China Sea

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AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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It's posturing is all it is. The only scenario I see that India will get involved is if the US was at war with China and China was losing. That way they can come in and along with everyone else waiting for the US to do all the dirty work and think they won. Everyone else is not going to do anything unless the US is directly militarily involved. If China was the menace they make and they were confident in their military superiority, they would've attacked long ago. Afterall as they say China is the worst human rights abuser in the world. They've attacked countries for less and some based on false information. Take a step back and they call this Chinese aggression? Has China fired a shot? The fact is I can think of much more serious offensives not committed by China. It's nothing about good vs evil. It's all about who's side your on. And remember this, China is keeping most of their economies afloat not the US. In this recession, are they that delusional to think the US economic cavalry is coming over the hill to the rescue to buy up all their Durian.
 
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mr.bean

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i never take anything india says too seriously. if you look at what they say and then finally do, you will realize they are ALL TALK NO ACTION! :mad:

this is what i think will eventually happen, a couple of indian navy warships will visit vietnam, the indian press will make a big deal about it with lots of photoshoots and PR. lots of commentary about how the indian navy will have a presence in south china sea to protect its assets, lots of talk about how vietnam and india working together to fend of the big bad wolf china blah blah blah.....then they will go home. :)
 
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delft

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Here is Ambassador Bhadrakumar's blog on this matter:
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China ties too important for off-hand remarks

It is a sorry state of affairs that from Beijing National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon was called upon to put in perspective an untimely ‘chatty’ remark by the navy chief Admiral D. K. Joshi regarding India-China relations. The admiral, it seems, walked into a booby trap set up by cub reporters.

But the matter didn’t end there. The Chinese MFA spokesperson Hong Lei repeated the standard position on the issue of South China Sea. What is curious, however, is that the Voice of America scrambled to run a commentary on Adm. Joshi, interpreting his off-hand remark as an articulation of “regional ambitions” which only leads to “increasing the possibility of future confrontation as Asia’s two leading emerging economies seek to project their power.”
Fishing in troubled waters? Yes, it is. Truly, China’s State Councilor Dai Bingguo spoke not a day too soon when he told Menon in Beijing that the two countries should have a clear idea about some parties’ intentions of undermining bilateral ties.
I happened to have a conversation last night in a Moscow dacha with Ambassador Charles Freeman Jr, retired US diplomat who was the principal American interpreter for Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972.

Ambassador Freeman’s views matter because he is a frequent traveller to China and is held in great trust and confidence in Beijing, and, most important, he also happens to be an old ‘India hand’ with family ties with our country.

He singled out approvingly that India is pursuing an independent policy toward China. Given the ambivalence in US-China, Japan-China and China-Russia relationships, India is doing the right thing by keeping its strategic autonomy.

Despite the US’ “rebalancing” in Asia, 3 million American and Chinese tourists travel between the two countries annually and President Barack Obama wants the size of the Chinese student community in the US to touch 1 lakh. Amb. Freeman flagged the interdependency between the two economies.
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By M K Bhadrakumar – December 6, 2012
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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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Funny, they can't handle a country 7 times smaller in land, population, economy, resources and military and now somehow they are going to fight a bigger enemy?

India can't and will not be capable to fight on 2 fronts, Pakistan will always be the counter balance, if India deploys its best naval divisions to East who will look after the West, the bulk of Indians naval assets face Pakistan and that will never change
 
Subedei

Subedei

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Delbert said:
Bay of Bengal is quite far from China's coast.. Or you mean PLAN is going to deploy the aircraft carrier?
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no, i'm anticipating that china will obtain overflight privileges from myanmar in the event of a conflict.
 
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Blackstone

Blackstone

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Subedei said:
no, i'm anticipating that china will obtain overflight privileges from myanmar in the event of a conflict.
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Myanmar has more to lose by pissing off India than what she can gain by pleasing China. Myanmar will pay lots of lip service to the Middle Kingdom (as she has always done), but will stay very neutral in any conflict between the Tiger and the Dragon.
 
MwRYum

MwRYum

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Subedei said:
no, i'm anticipating that china will obtain overflight privileges from myanmar in the event of a conflict.
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Don't count on it, especially when Burma is moving towards the West, if you're keeping track on the current affairs.
 
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z117

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The degree to which Chinese interests are gaining control over most of the upstream industrial sectors in Vietnam is confirmed by Vietnamese ministerial estimates which claim that about 90 percent of all engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts in Vietnamese projects are being won by Chinese firms.
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Perhaps enough to deter Vietnam...maybe.
 
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J-XX

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Maybe it's time China started to support some of those separatist movements seeking independence within India.

As usual Indians talk alot, but fire blanks when it comes to action.

I think the Indian navy taking on the PLAN in the South China Sea is comical.

Whether it is land war, air war or naval war, the result will be a 1962 style thumping.
 
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antiterror13

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J-XX said:
Maybe it's time China started to support some of those separatist movements seeking independence within India.

As usual Indians talk alot, but fire blanks when it comes to action.

I think the Indian navy taking on the PLAN in the South China Sea is comical.

Whether it is land war, air war or naval war, the result will be a 1962 style thumping.
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It would be much worse this time. China was weaker economically and technologically than India in 1962. Now China is 4x bigger both economically and militarily and Chinese tech is much more advanced than poor India
 
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