Chinese state media is quoting officials familiar with the situation as saying the nation is preparing for a “small-scale military operation” aimed at expelling Indian troops from the Doklam region, after a protracted stand-off in the area.
China was trying to build a road in the Doklam region when Indian ground troops crossed the border to stop them. Indian forces have remained there, albeit in small numbers, ever since. India does not claim the land belongs to them, but claims that Bhutan believes it belongs to them, and that an old treaty with Bhutan obliges them to back the claim.
The territory is sparsely inhabited, and of little value to either. Still, Chinese officials warn that the row with India could have a long-term impact on their relationship, whether or not the dispute results in any sort of military exchange.
Chinese officials aren’t prepared to wait forever, though, and envision a “limited war” being launched within the next two weeks to expel the Indian troops. It remains to be seen, however, just how “limited” a war between the world’s two most populous countries could really be.
Nothing is going to happen. India will quietly withdraw, leaving a few soldiers as “evidence” that it isn’t withdrawing, and keep its mouth firmly shut when China resumes building the road. The Modi regime cannot afford a defeat because that would burst its whole bombastic nationalist rhetoric, and besides, India is up to the gills in trade with China. As proof, Modi’s mouthpiece channels like Times Now and Republic, which spend hours every day blasting invective at Pakistan, Muslims, and liberals, are all deafeningly silent about China.
Probably true but they will keep telling the world that they are morally superior to everyone else because of Gandhi.
Actually, the current Modi regime is erasing Gandhi from the history books and replacing him with Savarkar, who led the conspiracy to murder Gandhinagar but was never punished for the crime.
For years India has been carefully cultivating an image of a peaceful country in the eyes of the world. However India’s immediate neighbors know better. India’s smaller neighbors are resentful of India’s bullying altitude. The only country that India think it still enjoy good relations is Bhutan. Bhutan is too small and vulnerable and for years is coping with India’s bullying by showing excessive deference to India to avoid suffering the same fate as Sikkim. Now the Bhutanese resentment to India is out in the open. This incident lay bare the fact to the world that India is a bully, as perceived by India’s neighbors. Check out this blog by a native Bhutanese on how he sees the present standoff.
http://wangchasangey.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-strategy-behind-india-doklam.html
What Bhutan thinks or wants is immaterial unless it’s willing to delink its currency from the Indian rupee (the ngultrum is backed by India and has no independent value) and dump the British era treaty under which it cannot have any foreign policy of its own without British, or now Indian, permission. And it can’t do either without India sabotaging that by all means including military occupation. India has lost the goodwill of every single one of its neighbours due to its bullying…. except Bhutan. This “confrontation” at Donglang was mostly an Indian attempt to show Bhutan that it could not survive without Indian hegemonism; unfortunately, instead of retreating as expected, the Chinese retaliated by building up forces. India’s bombastic army chief (who loves using human shields in Kashmir, wishes Kashmiri civilians were armed so he could massacre them, and was promoted over the heads of two other generals by Modi) has fallen silent. The army has only ten days worth of ammunition as admitted by the Comptroller and Auditor General’s office; and far from falling over itself to support India as expected, Modi’s hugging partner Trump hasn’t even so far seen fit to appoint an ambassador to the American embassy in Delhi.
China has a long history of such small border wars, including one against India in this region back in 1962, and one against Vietnam in 1979.
Even the Indians MSM has admitted India was the aggressor in 1962.
China was the pioneer of r2p in the 1979 limited campaign to stop
VN persecution of Chinese minorities.
The West led by unitedsnake abused the concept of r2PROTECT,
launched hundreds of r2PLUNDER wars of naked aggressions since ww2.
hope this helps.
In both of those wars, China used the same technique of taking territory, then pulling back. It was a method of “teaching a lesson.” They did not attempt more, despite having won on the ground. Other nations might have tried to milk that for more, and gotten a bigger war for their troubles.
I was not suggesting China as dangerous aggressor. I was suggesting China as very willing to fight a small war for a limited objective, and call it a day.
Pushing China in a military way is a good way to get your behind handed to you with a smile. That is the point. India is playing at something that will not turn out well for India.
Remember, US Ambassador the the UN is Nikki Haley (aka, John Bolton’s Ovaries) who just happens to have Indian heritage. I doubt she’ll paint China wearing a white hat.