Remember china cannot afford war.. All they know is war mongering.. They will try to scare us.. Intimate us but they cannot go for war because of they do and get significant loses.. They will lose the supremacy in south china sea and moreover they can kiss goodbye to their superpower dream
Well said!
Some posters here are under the impression that the PLA is some very advanced alien force like what one sees in the Star Wars episodes or the Borgs in Star Trek that can assimilate entire planets with their advanced weaponry!! They are under the mistaken impression that the IA is far inferior to the PLA. Nothing can be farther from the truth.
The bottom line is that the PLA is all skin and no meat. In a conflict situation, they have no chance against the IA especially in mountainous terrain. They can't use their mechanized forces in such terrain. What the Chinese showed in their training propaganda video a few days ago with tanks, SP artillery, armored personnel carriers etc was conducted over the flat plains of Tibet and not in mountains which were hundreds of miles away!!
Fighting in mountains is a totally different ball game altogether. And the Indian Army are past masters in this kind of warfare. We've fought on the heights of Kargil and gave a pasting to well entrenched Paki troops there. WE have the experience. The Chinese don't!
And for an offensive in mountains one requires a combat ratio of 9:1. And the PLA does not have that kind of force to prosecute a successful offensive along the Himalayas. If they try their casualties would be in the thousands which will have huge negative geopolitical and geostrategic implications for them as well as grave ramifications for the CPC too.
The Chinese are aware of this and thus they will not be so foolish to embark on a war with India. The economic and military stakes are too high just for a small piece of land in the wilderness!