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Continuing 'suryag's post from the Border thread here. Yes, that's correct. A summary of the internal US-embassy cable of 2009 portrays the then PSC & VP Xi Jinping like this, as gleaned from a 'contact', a similar 'princeling' of the CCP and of the same age as XI and a 'close friend' with Xi f...

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Like AoA, we need something for the Hans. CoG - Confucius-o-Great or something else...suggestions welcome. STS = Sun Tzu Says CMT = Chairman Mao Teaches ( This is actually a sarcastic thing young Chinese say) HCBB = Hindi-Chini Bye-Bye China Numbah Wan (Wan in Chinese means 10,000, so I'm always un...

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Prisoners and film . We lacked both at Galwan. If we annihilate a battalion, a brigade there would be prisoners and bodies by the hundreds on ground that we control. It will destroy their narrative and position in the Asian power hierachy quickly and even more if they tried to deny living prisoners...

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If there's one thing I've noticed the Chinese repeatedly do, it is this - they seldom use force accumulation as a way to expand their claims. In other words, they don't depend primarily on a continuous presence of highly trained and heavily armed troops. Not much is established about the capabiliti...

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The writer is a retired Major-General of the Indian Army. A battle on China’s hands Another factor is that in 1962, the PLA could accept casualties, as the nation was still to push through the one-child norm, which commenced in 1979. Nor were there multiple media networks where casualty figures wer...

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https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/09/sino-indian-logjam-aim-capability-and.html?m=1 SINO INDIAN LOGJAM : AIM , CAPABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS by LT GEN P R SHANKAR(R) This is brilliant analysis, worth reading in full. Very clear and logical. Gen. Shankar shows Clausewitz is more pertinent tha...

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Apologies if your eyeballs melt. This poster perfectly illustrates the "China dream" (title) https://chineseposters.net/sites/default/files/2020-06/e37-724.jpg The island with the Chinese flag is the Senkaku, claimed by China and under Japanese control and the aircraft carrier is the Liano...

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I find the entire idea of Chinese backstabbing flawed. If the enemy gets us in the back, it is either because we haven't been paying attention or are stuck on a sense of chivalry which has no place in modern warfare. The current or next war is certainly not going to be like the Mahabharata, which be...

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On an esoterical but never the less might be a valid point...for our discussions on this forum at least, can we please not call the Chinese army "PLA"? That name has been used by the chicoms for propaganda reason as ostensibly this army being the liberators and protectors of the Chinese p...

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More pearls of wisdom from Ms Sun in Wonderland: Yun Sun , director of the China Program at the Stimson Center in Washington, said Beijing had grown frustrated after years of talks that failed to make progress on a mutually defined line of control, while India developed infrastructure in areas that...

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I think the title of this thread is an oxymoron

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I had published a journal article on Siachen a few years back, which ought to fit here quite well. It's a rather dry academic article, still it might be useful for those interested in Siachen specifically and mountain warfare broadly. It's open access, there's no paywall and you can share the link f...

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Without the current context of what the chinese have been doing in the past few months and in general in the past few years, I would (and probably many others) find this explanation incredulous. The only other group of people that I know who demand respect and subservience from others with nothing ...

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I have been browsing some cheen chat forums in mandarin and using Google translate to make sense of what they were saying when this gem of a thread popped out . https://ibb.co/r6B6chY https://ibb.co/j5bbPYN The idiots think they can steamroll Indian army and occupy all of northeast upto the Indian ...

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Vishnu Som and ANI reporting we have control of the heights in the area. Doesn’t mention which "heights" though, no? The Chinese press statement of the Western Command is making "solemn representations" about Reqin La, which sounds like Rezang La. I think the heights around the ...

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Fighter aircraft in Xinjiang don't have the range for meaningful sorties outside J&K. It's not a question of range of fighters vs, distance to Indian air bases. Aircraft take time to form up, take a flight path that avoids early detection, after which, combat consumes fuel at a higher than aver...

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Primusji and RaviBji, from what I have seen, if the young people are nudged in the right direction, they will the tread the path on their own. They will form their own opinions by searching them on the net. But you have to feed a constant source of good material on India in the formative years. And...

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Agreed on all three points, though on #3 it depends on how Xi exits. If he's deposed, it would be by someone even more wily and ruthless who got high enough up in power to do that. On the other hand, the person may be a one hit wonder who would only be known for having deposed Xi. If Xi goes away g...

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... So there's a cultural belief here that Chinese intrinsically lack a cultural cohesive glue. CPC tried to accomplish that by requiring a common language (Putonghua) but people continue to use dialects, and language alone can't fix a missing sense of unity. A unified Chinese nation has always bee...

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I think the best exploration of democracy in China is this documentary about election in a Chinese classroom KD1QSX2hOnk If people are interested in what's actually going down in China regarding social violence, there is an excellent movie by Jia Zhangke (one of the best Chinese directors, never mad...

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Given Xi's behavior so far, he lacks the intelligence and foresight to head off a major crisis. He'll either go down in crisis, or get pushed aside and the next guy will find it's too late to head off crisis. An entity like CPSU and CPC are like supertankers that do not change course easily. One th...

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It's not just us, China is also low on money and has major financial problems. We're all used to hearing the China success story of double digit economic growth. But I think there is a lot of suspicion that all is not well behind the lizard curtain. I've posted this article elsewhere, it gives a goo...

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Another article on Cai Xia with additional information from the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/world/asia/china-cai-xia-expelled-communist-party.html Some supplementary snippets: During her career teaching at the Communist Party’s top academy, Cai Xia cheered on signs that China’s leaders m...

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'He killed a party and a country': a Chinese insider hits out at Xi Jinping An edited transcript of an interview with Cai Xia, who was expelled from the Communist party on 17 August 20 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/cai-xia-chinese-insider-hits-out-at-xi-jinping-he-killed-a-party-and...

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China’s Superpower Dreams Are Running Out of Money When the coronavirus crisis is over, China will be forced to embrace a less ambitious future. By Salvatore Babones | July 6, 2020 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/06/china-superpower-defense-technology-spending/ Posting in full since paywalled See...

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All this is your opinion. Those who can fight will fight. Economic prosperity will only give you a very limited amount of respect. So is the case with various technological achievements especially in nuclear and aerospace sectors. The only way to gather serious respect and hence achieve your geopol...

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Firing the first bullet is the easiest part. Once the balloon goes up, every tom, dick & harry will talk peace and try to stop the war. Irrespective of the result of the war, we will end up making a deal where invariably the Chinis will be allowed back in our market. Not to mention back to non-...

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Every situation cannot be resolved by use of special forces or other covert/clandestine means. And exactly what covert means are we going to use to force China to vacate occupied territory? Hijack their ocean freighters(should be anyways done)? Or kidnapping the daughter of Jinping himself? I am so...

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I think that the answer is somewhere in between. 1. There are still a ton of non kinetic actions that we can take. Like warn of strikes on CPEC in PoK, reject one China policy, Openly critise the South China sea policy. etc etc. 2. Kinetic need not be done against the chinese alone, it can be done ...

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<snip> Y'know, I can't figure out what Gandhi was after, either. Gandhi seems like a very paradoxical person. Just last night, talking to my kids - who both grew up here - the topic of Gandhi and Nehru came up. They both said they thought IG was Gandhi's daughter or otherwise related to him. When I...

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I don't think diplomacy should get such a bad rep. It is essential and yes it involves talking in a specific non-confrontational way. Grovelling is not the right term for it, I'm pretty sure he's offering a rollback of economic actions against China in return for restoration of the status in April. ...

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^^ He's asking India to punish the soldiers responsible for inflaming passions and causing military casualties (on themselves?) in Galwan. Sun Weidong, Chinese ambassador to India, has urged the Narendra Modi government to 'conduct a thorough investigation, hold the violators accountable, strictly d...

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The text of the Executive order Section 1. (a) The following actions shall be prohibited beginning 45 days after the date of this order, to the extent permitted under applicable law: any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction...

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The Chinese use WeChat for everything, including digital payments and other kinds of financial transactions. If Aemrican companies are not allowed to do business with wechat, Walmart and Apple Stores would lose business in China. Also if WeChat is not available as an app, Chinese will likely not buy...

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I agree, especially considering he already spent 4 years in prison for the last letter, and this one will probably get him 20 or death.

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Dear Chairman Xi, It’s Time for You to Go An Essay by Xu Zhiyong [Now in jail or dead, this letter was written in January 2020] https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/dear-chairman-xi-its-time-you-go Xu Zhiyong [Not to be confused with Xu Zhangrun, also a scholar who's in jail for cr...

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The Army in Indian Military Strategy: Rethink Doctrine or Risk Irrelevance Arzan Tarapore https://carnegieindia.org/2020/08/10/army-in-indian-military-strategy-rethink-doctrine-or-risk-irrelevance-pub-82426 The Indian Army’s prevailing doctrine leaves the military with two main choices: do nothing ...

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https://mobile.twitter.com/Chellaney/status/1292177427393736705 Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney <snip> Aug 9 The only way China will roll back its encroachments is if the costs become unbearable. Modi's steps so far have been designed more to assuage public anger at home than to seriously punish China....

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I have translated some of the maps by a Chinese guy that I had linked to earlier and one of which was then analysed by LakshmanPST ji It might be useful to see this from the Chinese side. The original link to the map https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/150959735 I only translated one section. Based on your...

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These yellow lines are marked based on the maps from the links posted here---> https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7810&start=6680#p2452144 It is some analysis done by some Chinese guy... LakshmanPST ji, sorry I haven't had the time to translate the maps. If you tell me wh...

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