are you out of your tiny mind!Rajiv Ganshi sent his FM because your Govt. invited him to discuss about the potential conflict like situation at that moment between the two countries.in reality the CCP was sh*t scared of India as it knew it didn't have the power to defeat a force like India at that time
(it had been only a decade since your mighty PLA was literally a**wh***ed by a "so called" rag tag Vietnamese Armed Forces in '79
).
according to some confidential reports of that time our COAS Gen.Sundarji had made a plan to mount a preemptive strike inside Tibet and liberate Lhasa from the clutches of the CCP thugs.
India was a formidable force to reckon with during the '80s and used to maintain a significant qualitative advantage over the PLA due to the availability of both Soviet and Western weaponry and equipments which were significantly superior than anything the PLA could field at that time:ranger:
well,
1. In 1980s,CHina's industry chains were outdated,but it was already complete and its industry output by far larger than India's.
In fact, CHina's steel ,oil and other base industry products output were all times more than Indias'...
Besides,CHina could already make all kinds of cannons, tankers ,jets and other weapons by itself and sustain a longterm full war by CHina itself, in spite that those weapons were mainly still 1950s-1960s tech,
2. in 1980s,India owned lots of more advanced weapons ,mainly imported from SOviets. However, India industry chains were not so complete and it could not produce most heavy weapons such as jets,big cannons and heavy vehicles.
So, India could not sustain a longterm war against CHina,without the sopport from a Soviet and USA.
In fact, the weak weapon resupply,caused by weak industry base, is still the deadly weakness of Indian defence force today.
3. In 1987, USA and CHina were in fact "quosi allies" against Soviet. Soviet ,led by Mikhail gorbachev, tried itself to show friendship to CHina,in order to improve its position in cold war..
So, India could not get support from Soviet or USA at all, if India had fought a long term war against China..
in fact, in 1987, Soviet frankly asked india to retreat,that was why India retreated.