LOC, LAC & International Border skirmishs

[Kazah]

15 pakis blown away in a blast and they are still confused whether it was suicide blast or not lol

Ye chutiye kal tak operation khyber ki pics share kar rae they aaj gaand maar gayi :bounce:

 

[square]

attack on any other place except dolam by Chinese side will be considered as open war and not dispute

all the chinese going to do is step into some no mens land in india and advertise to their public ......

 

[indiatester]

China will not attack in Dolam...they will probably attack where they have advantage...maybe in Ladakh or Uttarakhand

Thats not easy in this day and age of satellite surveillance. For them to attack where they have an advantage would mean that they must mobilize their troops first. That will be countered.

 

[Bornubus]

GOI needs to send back the same statement.

There is no question of talk unless until Chinese pull back.

......................................................................

Lol yes

Need, will, should, could, must, enough is enough, it's time to take, it's time to make, ..........

 

[dumdumdum]

Maybe not the right thread to ask but since we are discussing china here ...

Do other people find "Art of War" by Sun Tzu highly overrated ? The halo around it part of "Chinese the great Martial Race" narrative building?

 

[mayfair]

In addition to mobilisation, there's also acclimitisation. Do we have any facts and figures on how many acclimitised Cheeni troops are stationed along the Indo-Tibetan frontier?

The region where we see a huge concentrations of such troops is where they will plan an attack and since it's not a one day process, IA should have ample time to mobilise our own troops.

Moreover, there are limited areas that will allow a PLA division or two to make inroads into India. Dolam was one such area and hence the quest to build a road in this region to stay out of our arty range.

Of course the other possibilities are Eastern Arunachal, where Cheeni have build good infra across the border. They could also do a Nazi Germany and try and enter us through Myanmar. Doubt that Myanmar Tatmadaw will have the ability or the inclination to stop them.

Of course, they can make limited ingress in Ladakh, the presence is there, albeit some distance away.

Uttarakhand, I am not sure if the terrain will permit.

 

[gekko]

Bomb Blast in Lahore

_____________________________

25 killed 40 injured as per hospital admission data.

I can't believe they named their hospital as Ittefaq.

Doctor to blast victim : Yahan kaise aaye?

Blast victim : Ittefaq se.

Maybe not the right thread to ask but since we are discussing china here ...

Do other people find "Art of War" by Sun Tzu highly overrated ? The halo around it part of "Chinese the great Martial Race" narrative building?

China never promotes it. It's the West that has appropriated it and turned it into a caricature. Communist China shuns all classical references.

The History Channel documentary on Sun Tzu says "he predicted the fall of Nazis at the hands of the allies". Dumbasses, neither the US nor the Nazis existed when the book was written. Americans always find a way to make everything about themselves.

For all the hot air, Sun Tzu was not able to unite the warring Chinese clans. He was a sellsword who fought for no ideology or nation. His role was limited to the skirmish between the Wu and Chu provinces.

 

[mayfair]

Another area where Cheeni can potentially do mischief is Tawang. The've had their sights on this area for long.

 

[Screambowl]

Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, while talking to the media, said that the incumbent government has overcome the menace of terrorism by 70 to 80 per cent.

We have started the operation against terrorist organisations and the situation is much better as compared to what it was 2011-12, Sanaullah added.

 

[Screambowl]

Too bad after four wars we did not fix pakistan problem . This time it must be a permanent fix.

That time is gone
Now at most Pakistan can have fate like soviet type break down.

 

[LETHALFORCE]

That time is gone
Now at most Pakistan can have fate like soviet type break down.

So they will also lose lot of territory like soviet union


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[Kunal Biswas]

The estimated imminent forces compromise of 12 brigades a total of 48000men of PLA excluding border-guards, The reinforcement could come in form of 18 brigades which total 72000men of PLA ..

Central TC & Western TC ..

The brigades includes just not Infantry but mech, AD and Engineering and Arty ..

In addition to mobilisation, there's also acclimitisation. Do we have any facts and figures on how many acclimitised Cheeni troops are stationed along the Indo-Tibetan frontier?

The region where we see a huge concentrations of such troops is where they will plan an attack and since it's not a one day process, IA should have ample time to mobilise our own troops.

Moreover, there are limited areas that will allow a PLA division or two to make inroads into India. Dolam was one such area and hence the quest to build a road in this region to stay out of our arty range.

Of course the other possibilities are Eastern Arunachal, where Cheeni have build good infra across the border. They could also do a Nazi Germany and try and enter us through Myanmar. Doubt that Myanmar Tatmadaw will have the ability or the inclination to stop them.

Of course, they can make limited ingress in Ladakh, the presence is there, albeit some distance away.

Uttarakhand, I am not sure if the terrain will permit.

 

[IndiaRising]

will napak start another zarb e azab gajab?

 

[tharun]

The estimated imminent forces compromise of 12 brigades a total of 48000men of PLA excluding border-guards, The reinforcement could come in form of 18 brigades which total 72000men of PLA ..

Central TC & Western TC ..

The brigades includes just not Infantry but mech, AD and Engineering and Arty ..

If a war brokes out we face western TC and help from southern&central TC.
How many men,armor,artillery,AD are under Western and central TC

 

[indiatester]

This news seems relevant to the current crisis perpetuated by China.

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July 24, 2017 8:00 am JST

Xi tears up succession script with Chongqing shocker
Chinese president promotes yet another protege defying consensus candidates

KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer

Sun Zhengcai, the former Communist Party chief in Chongqing, is seen during the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, in Beijing in March. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

TOKYO -- In a surprise move that sent shock waves through China's political sphere, the Communist Party announced on July 15 that Sun Zhengcai, once a front-runner of the next generation of leaders, had been removed as Chongqing party chief.

His replacement was Chen Min'er, a protege of President Xi Jinping, and party chief of Guizhou, a relatively poor and economically backward province.

Party chiefs in provinces and cities are the top officials of their regions. While the 53-year-old Sun is one of the party's 25 most powerful Politburo members, 56-year-old Chen is still just one of the party's 200 or so Central Committee members.

Sun was placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's top anti-corruption body.

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It is still uncertain whether he will eventually be punished. Chinese state media reports on July 15 still referred to Sun as a "comrade." But in an ominous sign for Sun, Chen made no mention of his predecessor's performance when he delivered his first speech in Chongqing.

The political fate of Sun will have a significant impact on a party leadership reshuffle at the party's next quinquennial national congress this autumn.

The Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision-making body led by Xi, is to be shaken up at the national congress. Most of the current seven committee members are supposed to retire because of their age, although Xi and Premier Li Keqiang will stay on.

Every summer, China's current leaders, including Xi, and retired party elders get together in the seaside resort of Beidaihe in Hebei Province to informally discuss important issues.

The formation of a new party leadership team will be high on the agenda at this year's closed-door "Beidaihe meeting." Sun's fate will become clear by around mid-August, when the conclave is to end.

Nobody knows what lies around the corner in today's Chinese politics. Even those seen as sure leadership candidates cannot feel completely safe. The reality is that such hopefuls may be in the greatest danger.

History repeats itself

What happened to Sun seemed like a deja vu from five years ago.

Former Chongqing Communist Party Chief Bo Xilai speaking during the National People's Congress in March 2012. (Photo by Takahisa Toda)


Bo Xilai was the high-flying party chief of Chongqing until his wife killed British businessman Neil Heywood in November 2011, marking the first in a series of incidents that led to Bo's fall from power.

In February 2012, Wang Lijun, Bo's henchman and Chongqing's top security official, sought refuge at the U.S. consulate general in Chengdu, Sichuan Province after falling out of favor with his boss. Fearing for his life, Wang approached the consulate dressed as a woman.

Bo was Xi's rival and posed a serious threat to the then-leader-in-waiting. When Bo was removed from his post on March 15, 2012, as with Sun, he was initially still referred to as a "comrade" by Chinese official media.

But less than a month later, on April 10, it was announced that Bo had been suspended as a Politburo member for serious disciplinary violations and placed under formal investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was eventually sentenced to life in prison.

Will Sun face the same fate?

In China, major scandals are always linked to political upheavals.

In April, Xi chose to be elected as one of the Guizhou delegates to the party's upcoming national congress. In past party congresses, Xi had taken part as a delegate from Shanghai, where he had served as party chief until his promotion to the top echelon.

The selection of Guizhou this time was to demonstrate his confidence in Chen. In hindsight, it was also a prelude to Chen's big promotion.

Around the same time, a dark cloud began to hang over Sun, with He Ting, Chongqing's vice mayor and top security official, suddenly disappearing from the public eye as he was detained. Sun and He both hail from Shandong Province.

There was another important incident in February, when a visiting "inspection team" dispatched by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to Chongqing harshly criticized the province's condition.

"The harmful thoughts of the Bo Xilai-Wang Lijun era have not been eliminated completely," the team said bluntly.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is headed by none other than Wang Qishan, a key political ally of Xi and a Politburo Standing Committee member.

Xi came to power as the Communist Party's general secretary at the party's last national congress in late 2012. He became president in the spring of 2013.

Since taking power, Xi has been using his sweeping anti-corruption campaign as a tool to fight his power struggle with political foes and consolidate his power.

Wang Qishan is spearheading the anti-corruption crusade, which has already netted many influential figures.

Another blow to Sun came earlier this year when rumors about the close relations between the wives of Sun and Ling Jihua swirled across the country. Political observers raised questions about Sun's fate.

Ling was a close aide to former Chinese President Hu Jintao. Ling fell from power and was sentenced to life in jail after being accused of corruption.

Wang Qishan, President Xi Ping's close political ally and head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)


China's anti-corruption czar

"What happened to Wang Qishan?"

People started to talk about Wang's disappearance from the public eye in May and June. No media coverage was given to the top Chinese graft buster's movements during that time.

This sparked a torrent of speculation about Wang's whereabouts both at home and abroad, with some saying he might have fallen from power.

The truth is that Wang was inspecting Guizhou in May and June, accompanied by Chen, then party chief in the province and Xi's protege.

The purpose of Wang's inspection tour was to conduct a final check on Chen before promoting him to party chief in Chongqing, a post usually reserved for a Politburo member.

Wang was sizing up Chen to determine if he was suitable to become a candidate to succeed Xi as China's top leader in the future. Wang also wanted to make sure Chen was free from any scandals.

That Wang was deeply involved in the designing of the new party leadership team speaks volumes.

On July 17, two days after the replacement of Sun by Chen was announced, the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, published a long article penned by Wang himself stressing the role of inspection teams and the importance of continuing the tough corruption crackdown.

Wang praised Xi in the article, referring to him as the "core of the leadership," in a clear sign that their alliance remains solid.

Xi and Wang are poised to continue to push ahead with the Xi regime's signature anti-corruption campaign and completely wipe out what they regard as the harmful legacies and influence of Bo, Ling and Zhou Yongkang.

Zhou, a former Politburo Standing Committee member, was also purged in Xi's anti-corruption drive and sentenced to life in prison. Bo, Ling and Zhou were all Xi's political foes.

On another front, a separate inspection team was dispatched to the prestigious Peking University recently as part of efforts to root out those sympathetic to Bo and Ling.

Bo is a Peking University graduate. Ling's son also attended the university before being killed when he crashed his Ferrari. Ling's wife is also said to have had cozy relations with a company affiliated with the university.

Xi's relentless purge of rivals is also an attempt to silence outspoken party elders, as they seek to influence the formation of the new leadership team at the Beidaihe gathering. Such party elders had close relations with Bo, Ling and Zhou.

After Bo's downfall in 2012, Zhang Dejiang concurrently served as the party chief in Chongqing. Later that year, Zhang became a Politburo Standing Committee member at the party's last national congress.

Zhang currently serves as chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

It will not be easy for Chen to get promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee at the party's next national congress this autumn.

Chen is currently not a Politburo member but a lower-ranked Central Committee member. He will have to leapfrog many rivals if he is to join the all-powerful committee.

But by being appointed to Chongqing's new top official, a major position in China's leadership, there can be no doubt that Chen has joined the shortlist of candidates qualified to succeed Xi.

In stark contrast with Chen, Sun, who is close to former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, has dropped out of the succession race.

Xi's proteges now hold top-level posts in China's four municipalities -- Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Tianjin.

Cai Qi, Xi's close aide, serves as the party chief in Beijing. Li Hongzhong, who has cozied up to Xi, also serves as the party chief in Tianjin. Shanghai's mayor is Ying Yong, who has been Xi's close aide since the latter's time in Shanghai.

The lone outsider is Hu Chunhua, the 54-year-old party chief in Guangdong Province, a protege of former President Hu Jintao.

Political forces within the Communist Party are broadly divided into three groups -- Xi's group, the Communist Youth League faction, and former President Jiang Zemin's group.

The Communist Youth League is the party's massive youth organization. The group has been led by former President Hu and incumbent Premier Li. Hu Chunhua also belongs to the faction.

Chen Min'er, then Communist Party chief in Guizhou Province, seen at the National People's Congress in Beijing in March. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)


Chen's meteoric rise

China's succession race has become even more difficult to predict. This is exactly what Xi wanted when he drove Sun out of the race. The guessing game over Xi's future successor will continue.

If Xi follows customary practice, he will now have to narrow down the candidates to succeed him. Xi himself emerged as a shoo-in to take over from Hu Jintao as the party's general secretary and Chinese president at the 2007 party congress.

But any organization will see its top leader's gravity erode when an heir apparent emerges. If Xi is to avoid the same fate, he must handpick his successor carefully.

That is why Xi intends to make multiple candidates, including Chen, so they can spend time competing in the succession race.

Chen was born in Zhejiang Province. He became president of the Zhejiang Daily Press Group when he was still in his 30s. After Xi was assigned to the province, Chen supported Xi as his speech writer.

In the past, Chen has been seen as a dark horse candidate to succeed Xi in the future. He is no longer just a dark horse, but his future is still far from guaranteed.

During the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, in Beijing this March, Chen attended an open session and held a lively press conference. Beaming with confidence, he used grand gestures to point to reporters to ask questions.

But Chen overreached himself. Toward the end of the press conference, one reporter doggedly kept trying to ask him a question. Chen pointed at the reporter, accepting his question.

After realizing that the reporter was from Hong Kong, Chen declined to answer the question, cut the reporter off in mid-sentence, and abruptly ended the press conference.

Chen was probably playing it safe and feared he might face a difficult question related to domestic politics at a politically sensitive time. Chen's behavior caused a stir at the venue of the press conference, leaving a sour aftertaste.

Over the next five years, Chen's every move will come under scrutiny both at home and abroad. The peak of the mountain is so near yet so far.

 

[gekko]

This news seems relevant to the current crisis perpetuated by China.

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July 24, 2017 8:00 am JST

Xi tears up succession script with Chongqing shocker
Chinese president promotes yet another protege defying consensus candidates

KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer

Sun Zhengcai, the former Communist Party chief in Chongqing, is seen during the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, in Beijing in March. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

TOKYO -- In a surprise move that sent shock waves through China's political sphere, the Communist Party announced on July 15 that Sun Zhengcai, once a front-runner of the next generation of leaders, had been removed as Chongqing party chief.

His replacement was Chen Min'er, a protege of President Xi Jinping, and party chief of Guizhou, a relatively poor and economically backward province.

Party chiefs in provinces and cities are the top officials of their regions. While the 53-year-old Sun is one of the party's 25 most powerful Politburo members, 56-year-old Chen is still just one of the party's 200 or so Central Committee members.

Sun was placed under investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's top anti-corruption body.

Related stories

• China up close: Xi Jinping's empty North Korea promise pays off
• China up close: Xi tells his troops: 'Call me chairman'
• China up close: The kingmaker clan behind Xi Jinping
• China up close: China's Xi maneuvers to extend his reign

It is still uncertain whether he will eventually be punished. Chinese state media reports on July 15 still referred to Sun as a "comrade." But in an ominous sign for Sun, Chen made no mention of his predecessor's performance when he delivered his first speech in Chongqing.

The political fate of Sun will have a significant impact on a party leadership reshuffle at the party's next quinquennial national congress this autumn.

The Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision-making body led by Xi, is to be shaken up at the national congress. Most of the current seven committee members are supposed to retire because of their age, although Xi and Premier Li Keqiang will stay on.

Every summer, China's current leaders, including Xi, and retired party elders get together in the seaside resort of Beidaihe in Hebei Province to informally discuss important issues.

The formation of a new party leadership team will be high on the agenda at this year's closed-door "Beidaihe meeting." Sun's fate will become clear by around mid-August, when the conclave is to end.

Nobody knows what lies around the corner in today's Chinese politics. Even those seen as sure leadership candidates cannot feel completely safe. The reality is that such hopefuls may be in the greatest danger.

History repeats itself

What happened to Sun seemed like a deja vu from five years ago.

Former Chongqing Communist Party Chief Bo Xilai speaking during the National People's Congress in March 2012. (Photo by Takahisa Toda)


Bo Xilai was the high-flying party chief of Chongqing until his wife killed British businessman Neil Heywood in November 2011, marking the first in a series of incidents that led to Bo's fall from power.

In February 2012, Wang Lijun, Bo's henchman and Chongqing's top security official, sought refuge at the U.S. consulate general in Chengdu, Sichuan Province after falling out of favor with his boss. Fearing for his life, Wang approached the consulate dressed as a woman.

Bo was Xi's rival and posed a serious threat to the then-leader-in-waiting. When Bo was removed from his post on March 15, 2012, as with Sun, he was initially still referred to as a "comrade" by Chinese official media.

But less than a month later, on April 10, it was announced that Bo had been suspended as a Politburo member for serious disciplinary violations and placed under formal investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was eventually sentenced to life in prison.

Will Sun face the same fate?

In China, major scandals are always linked to political upheavals.

In April, Xi chose to be elected as one of the Guizhou delegates to the party's upcoming national congress. In past party congresses, Xi had taken part as a delegate from Shanghai, where he had served as party chief until his promotion to the top echelon.

The selection of Guizhou this time was to demonstrate his confidence in Chen. In hindsight, it was also a prelude to Chen's big promotion.

Around the same time, a dark cloud began to hang over Sun, with He Ting, Chongqing's vice mayor and top security official, suddenly disappearing from the public eye as he was detained. Sun and He both hail from Shandong Province.

There was another important incident in February, when a visiting "inspection team" dispatched by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to Chongqing harshly criticized the province's condition.

"The harmful thoughts of the Bo Xilai-Wang Lijun era have not been eliminated completely," the team said bluntly.

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is headed by none other than Wang Qishan, a key political ally of Xi and a Politburo Standing Committee member.

Xi came to power as the Communist Party's general secretary at the party's last national congress in late 2012. He became president in the spring of 2013.

Since taking power, Xi has been using his sweeping anti-corruption campaign as a tool to fight his power struggle with political foes and consolidate his power.

Wang Qishan is spearheading the anti-corruption crusade, which has already netted many influential figures.

Another blow to Sun came earlier this year when rumors about the close relations between the wives of Sun and Ling Jihua swirled across the country. Political observers raised questions about Sun's fate.

Ling was a close aide to former Chinese President Hu Jintao. Ling fell from power and was sentenced to life in jail after being accused of corruption.

Wang Qishan, President Xi Ping's close political ally and head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)


China's anti-corruption czar

"What happened to Wang Qishan?"

People started to talk about Wang's disappearance from the public eye in May and June. No media coverage was given to the top Chinese graft buster's movements during that time.

This sparked a torrent of speculation about Wang's whereabouts both at home and abroad, with some saying he might have fallen from power.

The truth is that Wang was inspecting Guizhou in May and June, accompanied by Chen, then party chief in the province and Xi's protege.

The purpose of Wang's inspection tour was to conduct a final check on Chen before promoting him to party chief in Chongqing, a post usually reserved for a Politburo member.

Wang was sizing up Chen to determine if he was suitable to become a candidate to succeed Xi as China's top leader in the future. Wang also wanted to make sure Chen was free from any scandals.

That Wang was deeply involved in the designing of the new party leadership team speaks volumes.

On July 17, two days after the replacement of Sun by Chen was announced, the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, published a long article penned by Wang himself stressing the role of inspection teams and the importance of continuing the tough corruption crackdown.

Wang praised Xi in the article, referring to him as the "core of the leadership," in a clear sign that their alliance remains solid.

Xi and Wang are poised to continue to push ahead with the Xi regime's signature anti-corruption campaign and completely wipe out what they regard as the harmful legacies and influence of Bo, Ling and Zhou Yongkang.

Zhou, a former Politburo Standing Committee member, was also purged in Xi's anti-corruption drive and sentenced to life in prison. Bo, Ling and Zhou were all Xi's political foes.

On another front, a separate inspection team was dispatched to the prestigious Peking University recently as part of efforts to root out those sympathetic to Bo and Ling.

Bo is a Peking University graduate. Ling's son also attended the university before being killed when he crashed his Ferrari. Ling's wife is also said to have had cozy relations with a company affiliated with the university.

Xi's relentless purge of rivals is also an attempt to silence outspoken party elders, as they seek to influence the formation of the new leadership team at the Beidaihe gathering. Such party elders had close relations with Bo, Ling and Zhou.

After Bo's downfall in 2012, Zhang Dejiang concurrently served as the party chief in Chongqing. Later that year, Zhang became a Politburo Standing Committee member at the party's last national congress.

Zhang currently serves as chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

It will not be easy for Chen to get promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee at the party's next national congress this autumn.

Chen is currently not a Politburo member but a lower-ranked Central Committee member. He will have to leapfrog many rivals if he is to join the all-powerful committee.

But by being appointed to Chongqing's new top official, a major position in China's leadership, there can be no doubt that Chen has joined the shortlist of candidates qualified to succeed Xi.

In stark contrast with Chen, Sun, who is close to former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, has dropped out of the succession race.

Xi's proteges now hold top-level posts in China's four municipalities -- Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Tianjin.

Cai Qi, Xi's close aide, serves as the party chief in Beijing. Li Hongzhong, who has cozied up to Xi, also serves as the party chief in Tianjin. Shanghai's mayor is Ying Yong, who has been Xi's close aide since the latter's time in Shanghai.

The lone outsider is Hu Chunhua, the 54-year-old party chief in Guangdong Province, a protege of former President Hu Jintao.

Political forces within the Communist Party are broadly divided into three groups -- Xi's group, the Communist Youth League faction, and former President Jiang Zemin's group.

The Communist Youth League is the party's massive youth organization. The group has been led by former President Hu and incumbent Premier Li. Hu Chunhua also belongs to the faction.

Chen Min'er, then Communist Party chief in Guizhou Province, seen at the National People's Congress in Beijing in March. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)


Chen's meteoric rise

China's succession race has become even more difficult to predict. This is exactly what Xi wanted when he drove Sun out of the race. The guessing game over Xi's future successor will continue.

If Xi follows customary practice, he will now have to narrow down the candidates to succeed him. Xi himself emerged as a shoo-in to take over from Hu Jintao as the party's general secretary and Chinese president at the 2007 party congress.

But any organization will see its top leader's gravity erode when an heir apparent emerges. If Xi is to avoid the same fate, he must handpick his successor carefully.

That is why Xi intends to make multiple candidates, including Chen, so they can spend time competing in the succession race.

Chen was born in Zhejiang Province. He became president of the Zhejiang Daily Press Group when he was still in his 30s. After Xi was assigned to the province, Chen supported Xi as his speech writer.

In the past, Chen has been seen as a dark horse candidate to succeed Xi in the future. He is no longer just a dark horse, but his future is still far from guaranteed.

During the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, in Beijing this March, Chen attended an open session and held a lively press conference. Beaming with confidence, he used grand gestures to point to reporters to ask questions.

But Chen overreached himself. Toward the end of the press conference, one reporter doggedly kept trying to ask him a question. Chen pointed at the reporter, accepting his question.

After realizing that the reporter was from Hong Kong, Chen declined to answer the question, cut the reporter off in mid-sentence, and abruptly ended the press conference.

Chen was probably playing it safe and feared he might face a difficult question related to domestic politics at a politically sensitive time. Chen's behavior caused a stir at the venue of the press conference, leaving a sour aftertaste.

Over the next five years, Chen's every move will come under scrutiny both at home and abroad. The peak of the mountain is so near yet so far.

One must really appreciate how deeply Japanese media tracks the events in China. Our people don't know anything about China other than the pedantic stuff. Indians cannot even name the provinces of China or Pakistan and Japanese are doing a dissection of Chinese succession line.

 

[pankaj nema]

Now Did We KICK some Paki A$$ today


Now Did We KICK some Paki A$$ today

 

[pankaj nema]

One must really appreciate how deeply Japanese media tracks the events in China. Our people don't know anything about China other than the pedantic stuff. Indians cannot even name the provinces of China or Pakistan and Japanese are doing a dissection of Chinese succession line.

They understand each other's societies just like Indians and Pakis do

 

[square]

Thats not easy in this day and age of satellite surveillance. For them to attack where they have an advantage would mean that they must mobilize their troops first. That will be countered.

they will most probably attack by air.....if they ever decided !!!

 

[indus]

they will most probably attack by air.....if they ever decided !!!

We would have reacted by now if china had scrambled any jets inside tibet. It cannot be hidden. Plus air power is a highly escalatory step to begin with. Shooting if any is going to start a local skirmish