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FairAndUnbiased said:

You mean like a 055?

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055 can't even beat Ticonderoga in VLS count. It also can't carry ultra large Hypersonic missiles that PLARF has. So, Type 055 is not a "Battleship" for the modern era.

A true modern battleship should have displacement atleast double that of 055. So, around 25-30K displacement. It should have 100+ VLS Air defense plus 30-50 larger VLS for Hypersonic anti-ship/ground attack missiles that are similar in size to DF-26/27.

A modern day kirov class type ship with modern radars and sensors and also hypersonic weapons will be what I would call a modern day battleship.

jiajia99 said:

In the realm of politics, self reflection and humility is India weakest point. That is seemingly why they fail time and again and also their tendency to paper over these failures only reinforces that next time they will fail even greater. I have every confidence they they are headed to failure every time they try to measure up to China. This simply isn’t going to change no matter what they do. Seriously every time I hear that woman anchor at Wion, I just know they are about to fail yet again, only a matter of when

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People keep overestimating India despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

To be frank, in an actual world war, India will most likely do more damage to the side their join through their customary incompetence and arrogance. They can be passable cannon fodder when commanded by foreign officers, as the British Empire used them, but if left to command themselves, they will just get annihilated and leave friendly allied forces in the shit.

Nevertheless, it would be stupid for China to proactively push India into America’s camp. So all China is doing is the bare minimum to not force India to choose sides.

Extending India the bare minimum of goodwill gestures costs China nothing, but singling India out for exclusion when China is doing general world wide outreach needlessly antagonises them for no reason or benefit to China.

tamsen_ikard said:

055 can't even beat Ticonderoga in VLS count. It also can't carry ultra large Hypersonic missiles that PLARF has. So, Type 055 is not a "Battleship" for the modern era.

A true modern battleship should have displacement atleast double that of 055. So, around 25-30K displacement. It should have 100+ VLS Air defense plus 30-50 larger VLS for Hypersonic anti-ship/ground attack missiles that are similar in size to DF-26/27.

A modern day kirov class type ship with modern radars and sensors and also hypersonic weapons will be what I would call a modern day battleship.

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and also do a golden shower inside a modern day russian hotel

plawolf said:

People keep overestimating India despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

To be frank, in an actual world war, India will most likely do more damage to the side their join through their customary incompetence and arrogance. They can be passable cannon fodder when commanded by foreign officers, as the British Empire used them, but if left to command themselves, they will just get annihilated and leave friendly allied forces in the shit.

Nevertheless, it would be stupid for China to proactively push India into America’s camp. So all China is doing is the bare minimum to not force India to choose sides.

Extending India the bare minimum of goodwill gestures costs China nothing, but singling India out for exclusion when China is doing general world wide outreach needlessly antagonises them for no reason or benefit to China.

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India might not be as competent as China (and may never be), but by sheer demographic heft & the BJP’s grip on power, it will inevitably have to be contended with. China needs a “India strategy” in the same way the West needed a “China strategy,” the only difference is that China has the benefit of hind sight, and can avoid making the mistakes the West did like out sourcing its entire industrial base & letting in so many immigrants their societies are now fighting amongst themselves.

Eventine said:

India might not be as competent as China (and may never be), but by sheer demographic heft & the BJP’s grip on power, it will inevitably have to be contended with. China needs a “India strategy” in the same way the West needed a “China strategy,” the only difference is that China has the benefit of hind sight, and can avoid making the mistakes the West did like out sourcing its entire industrial base & letting in so many immigrants their societies are now fighting amongst themselves.

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I tend to agree with Balaji's statement about "Indians" but not necessarily India (as a nation). The sheer breadth and scale of their diaspora community makes them a very influential component in the coming years. Maybe not the first generation of immigrants, but their 2nd generation of Indians often comparable of any of their local peers in the West. India is like Israel where it is society led, instead of government where their community is close knit, with strong networking skills that provides them a lot of internal depth and reach which allows them succeed in many different countries around the world. After all, Darwin said, "its not necessarily the strongest or smartest that wins but the "fittest." So they may seem like pests to us today, but like cockroaches they may survive us all should we have nuclear war or some sort of cataclysmic event like what's happening to the West right now. Rome, UK and US succeeded not necessarily because they were qualitatively better than Carathage, Netherlands or Nazi Germany but because they had the ability to make sacrifices and suffer great losses and keep going to adapt the changing world and that's what the demographic dividend will allow India to do. I don't think they will reach the same heights as China on a national level but they will nonetheless be much more influential in the years to come especially as the West implodes on itself.