Actually, India today is much less docile as Greenland. India has border disputes with Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, and Pakistan, to all of which it has never renounced its right to use force to resolve them. But this belligerence isn't an outgrowth of Indian strength; much to the contrary, it's an outgrowth of Indian weakness and electoral instability. The Indian army needs funding, so it appeals to right-wing Indian politicians ranging from Shiv Sainiks to Narendra Modi and the BJP, which in turn feed a sense of insecurity, aggrievement, and 'weakness' to the Indian media and national discourse.
The real victim of this policy is all those millions of chronically poor Indians with legitimate grievances against the woeful inability of the Indian government to provide basic services and the proper conditions for economic growth. The continual noise about Pakistan and Aksai Chin and 1971, 1965, and 1962 drowns out their yearning for a better life, and directs precious hard currency--hard currency that could go toward, say, importing foreign manufacturing plants or consumer technology--into the pockets of DRDO, HAL, and Russian defense contractors.
China doesn't care about all this--it's your country, after all, and if you wish your Dalits to continue to suffer and your farmers to slide further into debt while you spend export earnings on foreign military equipment, so be it. But when these tensions spill over into proud boasting about "China killer" nuclear missiles or insinuations that India may help the US contain China by strangling Chinese oil shipments through the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, then China has every right to react, by, say, stationing attack subs and frigates in Sri Lanka or an aircraft carrier at Gwadar, or by placing anti-ballistic-missile units and cruise missiles in Tibet, aimed at Indian nuclear launchers. China would rather not do that, of course, since China has no fundamental strategic issues with India (unlike, say, the innate geopolitical problem between China and Japan). Ergo, China would prefer a strong, confident India that has its own house in order so it doesn't have the political need for a national security apparatus whose sole purpose appears to be invading one country (Pakistan) while threatening the oil supplies and major cities of another (China).
India has no disputes with anyone.
Myanmar? Where?
Bangladesh? Where?
Pakistan? Well it can be solved if they go by the UN resolution wherein a Plebiscite is to be held ONCE PAKISTAN REMOVES THEIR CIVILIANS AND THE MILITARY. The UN resolution allows India to have troops.
There is no belligerency on India's part. It is just that India is too concerned being statesmanlike in international relationship and believes that dialogue alone is the way to solve issue. But for a Chinese, that would be difficult to understand since they believe the world revolves around the asinine theory that it is Middle Kingdom and so everything must be resolved by might and threats. The Chinese fail to realise that they becoming but a fly in the ointment.
It is the weak and those afflicted with insecurity who thunder but rarely pour! Mao has a very interesting phrase – Paper Tiger – and China is proving to be so. All thunder but no go! Belligerent talk and postures, but cowering away at the first sign of resistance.
But then coming from a Chinese, who has dispute with everyone, it is an abomination to logic!
India's progress is not stupendous, but then either one is to be a democracy and take along its population or be a totalitarian Communist regime and frogmarch all into the Golden Paradise of a caged bird – singing when ordered to do so!
The Indian Army is apolitical. If it were not so, then it would have gone the way China's bosom friend Pakistan has gone! But then China prefers autocratic and illegal regimes which do away with the niceties of a democracy where the people are supreme, since China itself has a regime that is not Vov Populi, nor Vox Dei! It is Vox Xi, who makes the Chinese go Jumping! Birds of a feather naturally have to flock together!
Indians do yearn for better life and there is no doubt about that. However, they do not want a better life like a caged bird in a gilded cage as in China. Have no doubts about that. Materialism is no path to happiness. Note how the Westerners are seeking solace in Oriental mysticism. Mental happiness is greater than material comfort.
But those who have emerged from abject poverty, as in China, and are starry eyed with money that can buy things that were but a dream before, will they understand it so early? Once they find that all their materialism has reached saturation, they too, like the West will go back to their ancient tomes to seek the peace of mind. Robots do not rule the world, minds do and the Chinese are but robotic, responding to stimuli like the Pavlovian experiment with Dogs.
The fact that China dreads being 'encircled' and 'contained' is so evident from their own frogmarched media. If China was confident of itself, then it would not go into the mad rush to arm itself to the teeth or take on weak nations in the Pacific Rim, but baulk when it comes to Japan.
China has no strategic issue? Really? Notwithstanding this crass disinformation pattered out, I concede that China has a greater and a more dangerous issue - the domestic issue. The inequality of growth and its fallout in benefits, the princelings cornering the fat of the land, the Southerners realising that they are working their backside off and contributing, while the Northerners are enjoying and the East benefiting at the cost of the West, the failure to convert the Tibetans and Uighurs into Han are greater issues that the Communist China worries about and which can cause the ruination of the concept of China . Or else, why should 'harmony and stability' be such a big deal? There is nothing harmonious or stable about the world!
It is juvenile to pretend that China is arming herself in Tibet to the teeth just for a lark! It is merely China's insecurity that speaks. They quake at the idea that India is not India of 1962.
India does not have to invade Pakistan.
They are invading themselves amongst themselves!
It is only a matter of time.
That is why China is entrenching herself in Northern Kashmir, so that they usurp it and gobble it as they have done historically all the time!
