Its already 2021. To think that everything started from this, on Aug 6th, 2019. 1 day after Article 370 was revoked.
No Indian or Western media would ever bring this speech up as the starting point of the China-India border crisis. To them India is always right, and China is always evil. Till this day the narrative has always been: "Chinese unprovoked aggression". In truth, after this speech, China and Pakistan furiously protested. It was a unilateral redrawing of the map by India, disregarding all their disputes. But so arrogantly, India and the West conveniently ignored their complaints.
Then India starts building roads at the disputed area. At the same time the Indian media was doom-mongering and laughing when China was facing the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. China rightly saw this as a blatant Indian attempt to change the status quo on the ground.
So China had to respond, and responded in a big way. The PLA moved into the disputed area and occupied the Chinese claimed area. We ironically hear so much in India media about how "China is caught flat footed". Turns out it was India who was the one that was caught flat footed. India called this: Chinese aggression, Chinese invasion, intelligence failure, or whatever. But the fact of the matter is China cannot trust India anymore with regards to Aksai Chin. Thus force had to be used to draw the line on the ground first, and then negotiate a settlement. Even after that, India could never negotiate in good faith with China. It wanted the PLA out of the area, but refuse to commit to keeping Indian troops out too. Hence, the border crisis that continues to this day.
Amit Shah would never have imagined that India would loose more than just lives from his infamous speech at the Lok Sabha on Aug 6th 2019. To date, India had lost:
1) Jawans
2) Aksai Chin. How ironic!
3) Its most important trade partner and investor: China
4) Hence, from point 3. India still has economy, yes. Just that India had lost its 'Superpower' economy.
5) 155k+ Indian lives to Covid-19. Due to many things. But boycotting China is certainly up there as one of the big causes. Extremely likely that many more people have died, as India is suspiciously under-reporting.
6) Multilateral economic agreements like RCEP and BRI.
7) Tiktok and all the Chinese apps that Indians enjoyed. Indians can say that they agreed with this, but they cannot deny the pain.
8) Its soul to the Uncle Sam, the biggest scammer in world history.
9) Even more treasure. To procure all manner of toys and gears for its military.
10) The goodwill of its farmers. When the economy is sinking, people naturally start protesting. Its angry farmers for now.
11) Its prestige as a major power in Asia. Instead of Superpower 2020, India is now a basket case in Asia. Even fellow westerners were shocked at the power of Indian vitriol being hurled at their 'precious heroine', Greta Thunberg.
Who knows what more could India loose as it is digging in deeper and deeper into its row with China.
