China India standoff at Ladakh LAC has reached a historic high ever since 1962.Both the countries have stockpiled huge ammunitions on either side and are staring each other eyeball to eyeball. Even as there is less likelihood that this faceoff will end in a war, yet both sides are fully prepared even as strategic talks at both military and diplomatic levels are underway. MoD Rajnath Singh informed the Parliament on Thursday that India is well prepared to take on any intrusion at the LAC.
The dragon has been on an defensive after the outbreak of Covid 19 crisis and been using divertive tactics to draw away flak from the world for spreading the corona pandemic.
The CCP led by Premier Xi JinPing of late has been facing lot of internal criticism ever since he took over Chinese leadership in 2013. Voices which have been muffled in the leftist single party governed China. Faced already with external turmoil in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Xi Jinping has been pushed to the corner with the result that he’s trying to duck and defend itself by being offensive to its liberal neighbors. It has taken the cudgels with as many as 23 of its neighbors. It has embarked on its ambitious one belt one road initiative and has engulfed many of its neighbors into a debt trap.
The dragon has a chip in its shoulder against India, particularly irked by India’s stand against the CPEC – ONE BELT ONE ROAD project. But as winter has already set on Ladakh the standoff is likely to get a cold feet till March next year.
