I see it going two ways:
1. Chinese will not attack, not till we are prepared for it
2. They will attack with massive force in all forms to paralyze us and then they will withdraw quickly saying that their objective is achieved. In that case, India will have to respond fast and disproportionately, before things get a bit cold.
Or, they'll pull a 27th Feb like Pakis. Conduct an operation that seems daring on surface, but fails to do any damage that GoI can stir up emotions against.
Let's say, bombing DS-DBO Rd. They can claim IA is isolated and starving because they cut off roads, or bomb some sparsely held observation post that results in no deaths (learning from slave tricks to miss bombs), or I won't be surprised if they unloaded weapons on a deserted hill inside Indian Territory like in their propaganda video and call it a victory and that they actually let us off with a warning.
Their real action would be to incite riots like they did in US. But, they don't realise India is used to that unlike US. By the end of second day, rioters will be crying and end of one week entire neighborhoods would be cleaned of Peaceful people.
Another flashpoint they'll try is Nagaland via Naga accords. They'd be only too happy to get us to bomb Kohima again instead of PLA.
I fear the real attack, if any might come from Nagaland, not AP via uniformed militias and terrorists. I'm not going to call it a terrorist attack because the scale will be, if such an attack happens, quite high. Nothing like tanks or anything. Just lots of chinkies cosplaying as Nagas with rifles and atgms.
