You getting too excited. Calm down boy.
Indian ocean is India home turf just like South China Sea is China home turf. They don't need war ships. They can have air fighters carrying antiship missiles or even obsolete subs can disrupt shipping lanes. I doubt China ability to hunt down subs.
Fighting at land means stalemale.
Sorry, that's what I sound like when talking to people with low IQ who can't grasp concepts.
Why does fighting at land mean stalemate when you have a superior air force, rocket force, and army? I think you're confused in that you think that India can act like it's all-out war and target Chinese merchant ships but China must be confined to fighting just for a little strip of land. You're mistaken. If India makes it all out-war, Chinese forces will advance on Delhi, destroying everything military that they encounter in their paths. Hell, if India wants to target Chinese merchant ships, China can launch on all Indian ships too. With all Indian naval ships destroyed, airbases/aircraft bombed by ballistic missiles/Chinese airstrikes, all MKI shot down/no runway to take off, blown up in their hangars, merchant ships too scare to leave port, what do they have left but surrender or nuclear option (which they won't win either)? That's what all-out war with China would be like for India and it would get there very quickly as compared to 1962. It will take much much longer to starve Chinese trade to a point of severity than it takes to beat India into directly surrendering while simultaneously choking up their water supply. Chinese merch ships can fly different flags and sail different routes in the mean time. It won't be fun but you avoid war-zones when you need to conduct business.
Unless you think that they don't care; they can just watch their country burn as a few little F-U subs keep lurking torpedoing a Chinese merchant ship occasionally until they run out of ammo and have no not-on-fire home bases to reload at or they happen to be caught during one of their stunts and end up killed by a Chinese depth charge/torpedo.
Rule of thumb, two big countries generally do not fight directly. Have to find Proxy fighters
I applaud you on your first non-stupid, non-off topic comment. That said, duh! But this conversation is about why India would be smart to back off when tensions on the Korean peninsula die down and China can turn its attention to India. It's cus they don't want things to escalate to what I said. And even if they don't back off immediately and end up a bit bloodied in a small conflict, they still won't escalate it into a full war by attacking Chinese ships because once again, they just can't win. And that's why when China is ready to deal with this, India won't escalate, must find reason to retreat or end up suffering a small loss and non of this blow-up-all-your-ships shit will happen.