I never said that we should back out incase of Chinese aggression in the border areas.I said we should not get involved in things like South China sea which is not our headache.
55% of India's trade passes through that route. Probably enough reason to poke our nose. India will play it quite and cold like always do, even if a wars occurs at SCS.
But if there's even a little smell of China succeeding, it will be an alarm bell for India, to commit direct military intervention.
In international diplomacy financial clout matters a lot,China has lots of money and India has no money for it's own people and has been running on a budget deficit since eternity.
No matter whatever you say but India has one of largest economy & foreign reserves. Recently, India passed loans for Mongolia and Vietnam.
No Money for own people? Huh..
I rechecked the overall budget, got it statewise as well instead just central budget.
https://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=statistics
Actually overall expenses are Rs. 38.4 lakh crores, more than $550 billions. This is more likely to be called total budget.
Deficit has been depleting in recent years.
The Bangladeshis and srilankans and other freeloaders are moving towards china not because they like the country but because they want the Chinese money.
What's your point, did any of us say here that we or they like China (
wait... I'm not talking about their citizens, being anti India and standing with China against India's "heinous" designs in "South Asia" has become very fashionable among our little neighbours 
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China has been playing a lot of mind games with us and i believe is that a lot of their threats are simply just talks and not actions.
Sure, DFI has instructed Nuclear Authority Command to immediately strike on Beijing after reading this news.
BTW, Newspapers are for talking and actions are visible in scenario. They may or may not be identical but enough to get the intention or PoV of your adversary.
Getting involvled in conflict of distant places not directly concerning us will not only put immense burden on our already overstretched military resources but put a big hole in our pocket.
Neither Indian Military is overstretched nor India overspends. Even recent increase intended for modernization is just for short term. It's been decreasing percentage wise year on year otherwise. India has the quantity but sucks in quality. So, it's for quality.
I remember in earlier decade when Chinese defence spending used to exceed 4% of GDP but as.economy expanded, it's left 1.9%.
And getting involved into alliances with crafty countries like the US will put us in a viscous vortex from which we cannot escape.We have a very bad history with the US and we should be careful while dealing with this country.The US is helping India solely because it wants to use India as a tool against China.Against this backdrop,we must be very careful.
If you are really equating India with usual US allies like Australia, Germany or Japan, you're definitely going just a judgemental feel good way as that of pakis which they use to equate themselves India.
India isn't a fading country like others at first place, it's emerging, being younger with high growth outlook for long term, manpower, it can seek a much bigger role, the role which US, Russia & China play today. At second, India itself does possess overseas military bases.
LSA agreement has specially been modified for India to be fair for both sides, hence India can also use.Diego Gracia and Guam in the time of need.
Else, I don't see any permanent pulling in any alliance with US.
Even if India does, it will weigh much more than any other US ally.
http://thediplomat.com/2016/11/the-myth-of-indias-non-aligned-boycott/
Our internal situation is very fragile with a fragmented society,poor socio economic conditions and a jobless economic growth.There is an anger in the society regarding the state of affairs and China can easily exploit the situation,for example spark a rebellion as it has happened in the past.I certainly don't want to return to the India of 70's and 80's where the country was plagued with secessionist insurgencies and communal disharmony.
If it was to be happened, must have happened decades ago.
Around late 80s and start of 90s, a poor fourth world country, nearly lost itself,
shown no social progress due to it's socialist model and neutral stance in geopolitics, behind Africa in income levels and developmental, the actual bottom ranker around 160s-180s and trying to escape bankruptcy, and today, how far we came from there.
There's a usual narrative from communists, ignoring every stats and criteria and a mere desperation to call their country fragile, making the people from actual from fragile states to jump like idiots.
Comments:
"Ya Allah!, ghazwa e hind is coming, India ne ek din fateh ho jana hai, Allah ne India ki yahi taqdeer likh di hai"
Quoting a genius from somewhere else.
China is our neighbor and we cannot afford to take enmity with it unlike the US.We must defend our borders with all our might but at the same time avoid getting involved in other's conflicts.
I just realized that someone from Chinese MEA Office joined DFI begging us to not create problem.
