This guy, despite understanding Geopolitics better than the average India, still doesn't understand China. He got some points right with China's BRI vs IMF. But on how China and the CPC works, he is still viewing China through a Cold War, and Jai Hind lens.
Here are some ludicrous quotes from him:
Nonsense. The Indian side started the fight. By abrogating Article 370, and then sending troops towards Aksai Chin when China was busy dealing with the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak. That is a naked Indian backstab.
Before the battle for Galwan Valley, China overestimated the honesty and fighting prowess of the Indian Army. All that changed when hundreds of Indian Jawans ambushed a small Chinese negotiation team. Subsequently these same Indian Jawans were routed when the PLA sent in reinforcements.
The mass casualties of Indian Jawan from routing, and their mass surrender was truly humiliating. It even surprised the Chinese. The Chinese leadership even had to keep the ugly details secret for around 8 months in order to not humiliate the Indians. It was that pathetic. Clearly, India had not appreciated that Chinese goodwill. So China now understands that it is in a position of strength against a frankly childish opponent. India has little military leverage against China. Even Pakistan doesn't respect Indian military power since the 2019 air skirmish. Galwan Valley is a stern warning. If India wants to try its luck again with the PLA, there will be no sympathies next time.
Nope it was a CIA-sponsored violent color revolution that tried to not only topple the Chinese government, but also destroy the Chinese nation as a whole. Some of these 'student protesters' brutally murdered PLA soldiers, and tried to stir up more violence. These are not revolution vanguards, these are CIA-sponsored terrorists. The most effective way to deal them is to neutralize them ASAP. For 1989 China, it had to be with lethal force.
India has no problems gunning down Muslims in Kashmir, or gunning down minorities in Nagaland. The Indian Army has even carried out a massacre at a hospital in Sri Lanka. Do not lie to us that India is morally superior to China.
Inconvenient truth: India abrogated Article 370 unilaterally. India was the one who is really playing lawfare.
Partially true. But wholly misunderstanding China's war motivations. All of them with the slight exception to the Sino-Vietnam war had been mainly about securing the territorial integrity of China.
1) Korean War: Securing China's North East borders from the rampaging US-led UN forces. The North East had been a historical corridor for invasion into Beijing from the Mongol Empire, and Imperial Japan. So China rightly responded to a grave invasion threat.
2) 1962 war with India: Again, securing China from Indian military expansionism. India refused to negotiate border demarcation with China. Then India started the "forward policy", sending troops into Chinese territories. With Nehru giving instructions to shoot PLA troops who tried to reclaim those lands. This is textbook military invasion. China was right to respond with military force and kick the invaders out.
China doesn't want war with India, but will not stand idly to any Indian invasion of its territories. Its the Indian side who thought that the Chinese were weak pathetic communists who would easily back down to Indian aggression. It looks like India is failing to learn that lesson these days. This idiot is talking like Nehru and his generals in 1962.
3) Border skirmishes with the Soviet Union. Again, more about territorial dispute than actual ideological war. Nevertheless, the skirmishes didn't become a global war. Because both sides realized that war with each other is just madness.
4) China - Taiwan conflicts from 1949 to present: China is working on reigning in a rebellious part of its territory. With as much restraint as possible. This is none of India's business. What would India do, if Assam suddenly decided to break away?
5) Sino-Vietnam war and conflicts from 1979 - 1991. This one no doubt had a decent amount geopolitical games involved. Most of the fighting was still over securing China's interest over the Indochina region. Not for some Maoist-Communist idealism. But isn't India doing the same thing in South Asia and against China? The Indo-Pakistani wars, the Indian intervention in Sri Lanka, India supporting Tibetan separatism, India supporting terrorists to disrupt the BRI, and many more?
Well Hu Xijin was right about more things than all of the Indian media combined. Compare him to what the Indian media has: Shiv Aroor, Palki Sharma Upadhyay, and Arnab Goswami. Yuck! I spit at the mention of those names. And yet so many Indians still believe them? Hell!
Fun fact. Hu Xijin had been truthful about the Chinese casualties from the Battle of Galwan Valley, while your media, and even the Defence Minister himself were lying through their teeth.
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