Re: Pakistan to lease Gilgit-Baltistan to China & possible Indian resp
Hopefully we are building the required assets as we speak. If we wait for some direct actions to rake up Baloch, it would be too late already.
That would be the prudent thing to do and useful for India too. Just as the Chinese nuke sub in SL was a much needed wake-up call, your proposed actions will send the bells ringing. Indian tend to take things easy until we are pressed into acting, too laid back and not too ambitious. China serves a much needed role for us.
The Chinese threat will propel Indian defense growth for the next few decades and even beyond. You need a dangerous opponent to be always on the guard.
It is important to be on toes. Chinese didn't do anything miraculous; they simply followed what they had planned in a timely fashion. The reason why our government found it shocking was that for the last 12 years, India was sleeping, mired in corruption, scams, rioting, terror-loving, elitist debates, filmfare awards etc while China calmly went about developing their military industrial complex, manufacturing factories of different products and dealing in hardcore business deals with the rest of the world.
We have virtually zero presence in Latin American countries, while China is either top or second biggest trade partner with some or the other.
We have reasonable presence in Africa but Chinese raced us by moving in 12 years ahead.
We have had zero presence in Oceania in terms of significant trade and development while it took 12 years and PM Modi to initiate a strategic engagement with Pacific Rim and other Oceania countries.
So technically, we have a lot to catch up to. We are in a deep bowl of soup in terms of strategic-military-geopolitical arena.
I hope Doval is developing assets that can launch massive action inside Pakistan in case they try to conduct major terror attacks against our country.
He is afterall, the second most powerful man in the country right now after the Prime Minister, and has already warned Pakistan if they tried to act funny.
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What we need is a robust military industrial complex that can supplement our interests in this region as well as extended neighbourhood.