Assault on 5104 height!
Ladakh Flash Point
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Assault on 5104 height!
Is there a video from this pic?
PiSigma
"the engineer"
Why? China doesn't want to incorporate a million covid cases over night. Let's wait until India is even weaker than now when covid is over before liberating south Tibet. Remember India now is not the India of 1962, it will be the India of 2000, after losing 20 years of development from covid mismanagement.
China dont want it. Zhou Enlai and Chairman Mao already defined what is more important to China and that is access to Karakoram pass and Aksai Chin. Ladakh and South Tibet hold no strategic value, they are already past the mountain slopes of Himalayas. Besides Ladakh and South Tibet are very far away from Chinese orbit. It is just not worth it. What is China is doing is just secure the border. Remember the 1962 war, PLA already captured South Tibet and some parts of Ladakh. There is just no way to depend it, stretching supply lines in a vast uninhabited area in the Himalayas slopes. There is no economic or strategic returns if China has to take these lands. China did not even annex North Korea after the Korean War when North Korea is pulverized after the Korean War.
All Chinese foreign wars have long term objectives - starting from Korean War, Indian War and Vietnam war.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
You act as if India represents any actual challenge to China. If China really wanted it, it could literally have tanks in Delhi by now.
China do not need to wait for and take advantage of any moments of weakness or calamity to move on India, because even on its very best day, India will still get curbstomped by China.
China never wanted a fight with India, the entire boarder dispute was stirred up because it was India who tried to take advantage of an assumed moment of calamity and weakness on the part of China when it bought into western MSM propaganda wishful thinking and thought China was totally incapacitated by COVID and in no position to respond.
The truth is actually even more embarrassing. Many medics were mistaken for PLA combat troops when they were waving their medical kits around and no doubt many jawans perished fleeing from help.
I think in the longer term, India is a potential threat to China. This threat cannot be neutralized by picking a fight at the border. If India was broken up into multiple countries, China would have neutralized the potential threat. At the moment, this is not in the interest of China to do that, because more energy must be spent in South Asia and it would also bring in outside powers from the West into some or all of these countries. It is in China's interest to keep India in tact, as it is with the West, otherwise, India would have been broken up long ago.
At the moment, I would describe the border issue as a very minor nuisance, like someone with a skin rash that need to be treated once a while. The current goal of China is to minimize energy spent there.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Just what do you think India can do, even if China is fully committed to a war in the east, to be classified as a threat?
Take a few uninhabited hills in the middle of nowhere? Gosh, how will China’s war efforts make do without them?!
India can achieve nothing of consequence in the west even if only faced with second tier PLA forces, who would be playing for time in such a scenario in any case.
India is trying to be the wolf at the back door to China. But really they are more like a toothless diseased chihuahua yapping in the next field, who would exhaust itself just climbing over the back fence.
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