by Vijeta Uniyal, GATESTONE INSTITUTE • June 26, 2020
India has been facing its toughest military challenge in nearly six decades after 20 Indian soldiers were reported beaten to death by Chinese troops in a border clash. Pictured: An Indian army convoy drives towards Leh, on a highway bordering China, on June 19, 2020 in Gagangir, India. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)
- China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea — equipped with military bases, naval ports and airfields — pose a strategic threat to neighboring countries. In 2018, China landed nuclear strike-capable bombers on these artificial islands, sending an alarming message to the U.S. and regional powers.
- Some commentators ascribe China’s stepped-up predations — on Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and Australia — to a hope that the world is too distracted by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic devastation it unleashed to bother confronting China, let alone stop it.
- While the U.S. has decreased its nuclear stockpile, China is boosting its arsenal, according to a report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on June 15.
- The Free World, if it wishes to remain free, seriously needs to stand with the world’s largest democracy. If China is allowed to succeed in its aggression, it will only embolden the Communists in Beijing to redraw borders, dictate terms to other countries in the region, and press on with its plan to dominate the world.
India has been facing its toughest military challenge in nearly six decades after 20 Indian soldiers were reported killed by Chinese troops in a border clash.
The soldiers were beaten to death with “sticks, fists, rocks and wooden clubs” during a confrontation in the Himalayan region of eastern Ladakh, Indian sources said. In keeping with a 1996 bilateral border agreement between India and China, soldiers are forbidden from firing weapons in the area where the clash occurred.
Chinese troops carried out a “premeditated and planned action that was directly responsible for the resulting violence and casualties”, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on June 17.
“Based on what I know, Chinese side also suffered casualties,” tweeted the editor-in-chief of the Chinese newspaper Global Times, a Communist Party mouthpiece.
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India has got to become serious. A fascist regime is next door and can easily create major damages to India.
See what the ccp did with the Wuhan virus!
The total number of nuclear weapons in the world (as of 2019) is 13,865.
The US has 5,800 nuclear warheads (1,750 deployed).
Russia has 6,372 nuclear warheads (1,572 deployed).
China has 320 total.
India has 150 total.
Of course, the US would love to see China and India in a proxy war with the US winning this war in the end.
Personally, I don’t want ANY wars, especially the ones which would involve nearly half of the world’s population, possibly culminating in the 3rd (nuclear) world war (the US will NOT be able to sit this one out protected by the vast ocean and making tons of money from the conflict like before) – but who listens to me?
Some Americans, apparently, think that it would be fun watching the war on television while eating popcorn.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
I think President Trump’s best “response” to the Chinese aggression was his meeting with Modi in January. Modi is actually the one who needs to “respondf”, by making up his mind whether he wants to be an ally of China and, especially, Russia (which he currently is), or of the US, Australia and Japan.
This opens up the possibility of a major land war in Asia, pitting a Chinese-Pakistani alliance against India. Trump should respond by freezing all Chinese assets in the United States and imposing a total economic embargo on China. But that would also severely hurt American consumers, since most U.S. consumer goods, and almost all of our pharmaceuticals, are now manufactured in China. They have us by the b___ls. With an election coming up, it will be politically impossible for Trump to get tough with the Chines. Maybe after the electionis is over if Trump wins.