plawolf
Lieutenant General
All Indian moves are aimed to domestic audiences. Beijing hasn’t retaliated because the damage done to Chinese interests is so slight it’s just unnecessary, and because China doesn’t want a war, so is not putting any pressure on Modi. In fact, China is actively limiting the pressure on Modi by not releasing casualty figures or making any public additional troop deployments to the boarders to counter the recently announced Indian military deployments.
Beijing called Modi’s bluff and he whiffed badly and gave an unprecedented submission by publicly announcing no Chinese soldiers crossed into Indian territory, thereby effectively ceading Indian claim to the are.
It’s all done and settled and all of the afters is just Modi trying to build himself a ladder to climb down with domestically.
China is just letting him save face and not needlessly humiliating him.
Beijing called Modi’s bluff and he whiffed badly and gave an unprecedented submission by publicly announcing no Chinese soldiers crossed into Indian territory, thereby effectively ceading Indian claim to the are.
It’s all done and settled and all of the afters is just Modi trying to build himself a ladder to climb down with domestically.
China is just letting him save face and not needlessly humiliating him.