I would request military professionals to join the discussion on whether we should insist on all out war. Since they are the ones who will fight their opinion is important.
Nobody is insisting on all out war on our side, as you can see with the actions of EAM Jaishankar and RM Kadi Ninda, all efforts are being made to pacify the dragon.
But it will be foolish to think that they will not escalate.
My post was meant to break the illusion that the Hans are some mighty race of vardan-powered asurs that only some Vishnuavtar can defeat.
They have their flaws, they are not all powerful as their many wumao shills everywhere may portray.
And any "war" they push will have limited objectives, they push too far( like trying to capture arunachal sikkim or the deluded paki fantasy of a Chinese flag in Delhi ) and that will force Uncle Sam to get involved
The Government of India does not share your view.
Why the hell will our Foreign Minister agree to meet the Chinese Foreign Minister if the Chinese did not agree to pull back.
This time the initiative for peace was taken by the Chinese side. It is reported that the Chinese Defence Minister went to the hotel where our Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was staying and met him. Probably they have been thoroughly outwitted by the Indian Army and are desperate for a face saving solution.
They are supposed to show that we, India are the calm, sensible and diplomatic country in this, with hope of acquiring foreign support in the unfortunate outbreak of a war or "skirmish" as they will call it.
They are not banking on the aggressive wolf warrior diplomacy that the 2nd largest 15 trillion dollar economy, largest consumer market, etc etc does.
Because of them having the arrogance of the aforementioned factors, the Chinese do not bother with conventional diplomacy and prefer aggressive behavior that we see now.
They see themselves as rivaling the US, and therefore don't find the need to engage with a "lesser country" like us.
They will not pull back, only push forward, and in their arrogance expect us to kow-tow to their demands.