Chinese are about to Find a Hawk inside a Peacock
Overconfident Chinese fattened by American FDI ($2 trillion) and all the possible trade advantage of low Yuan, American manufacturing technology and open invitations by America to take away smoke stack industry and reinstall them in China, has made China extremely dangerous. They have copied all military technology to build rockets, planes and naval ships in large numbers. That is all well and good to intimidate neighbours.
They made a mistake to intimidate India in the Himalayas. After 50 years of no action, they decided to invade India again in 2020. To them, the Indian weakness was clear. Small economy with not much exports, poor quality infrastructure and practically no capability to steal military technology and reverse engineer military hardware at home.
Well that was then and now is different. They found a hawk inside a peacock when they tried to intimidate it. All the above weaknesses have been redressed or in the process of being redressed. Indian military buildup of 1.4 million soldier is not built on copied technology but imported first rate technology obtained after paying license fees. In addition the OEM are setting up shops in india to manufacture high end Weapons. The high technology self developed weapons like rockets, fighter planes, nuclear submarines are far superior to Chinese hardware.
The hawk (India) means no harm to anybody except who comes to fight an unnecessary war like both China and Pakistan. They together are a serious threat concurrently or one after the other. Hence, India has struck a special friendship with US, Australia and Japan. The QUAD, as it is called is work in progress. It is good to be aligned with somebody than to fight a two front war alone. If you are well aligned then the enemies take a note and stay quiet. The QUAD may just do that.
‘’Hence Hawk is ready to reverse the intimidation which China has heaped on India and probably neutralize the bankrupt Pakistan.
‘Belligerent Chinese leader Xi Jinping has upped the ante a bit more. In his speech in Inner Mongolia, he said that country is safe only if its borders are safe. He was asking his military to build a Great Wall of steel at the border to defend the country.
‘Carefully interpreted, he is saying that border trouble which he has personally started after he took over with India and others will continue unabated. He has increased the troops strength in Tibet, Sinkiang, opposite Vietnam and collected a major invasion force opposite Taiwan. His speech explains all the belligerence he has initiated.
Hence, India’s build up of troops, rocket force, infrastructure in the Himalayas in last three years will continue to face up the Chinese belligerence. Now China knows that India is all ready for them, if they decide to come. I doubt that they will come; it will be suicide effort for them.
Elsewhere, with their huge recently built navy, they will act aggressive in the Indian Ocean. That again is suicidal mission for them, as Indian Ocean for them with inexperienced navy, is 4000km away and they have to pass thru Straits of Malacca with Indian Navy waiting for them at the western end.
Yet, if you want to act aggressive, they will act aggressive. They will increase arms supply free of cost to Pakistan, lease them a nuclear submarine etc.
‘Hence for India, it is important to build its economy to $10 trillion in next 7 years, increase defence expenditure two fold and increase surveillance level to prevent any surprises. ……. Cheers.