China’s Super Power Status Checkmated
By
Colonel Awadhesh Kumar, Special Forces
Since independence in 1947, India refused to join the security alliance of Western Bloc or the Soviet Bloc but continued to maintain bilateral relations with all the Countries in either bloc. At times a few countries tried their best to arm twist India into certain things but finally they realized their folly. China even carried out a military attack on India in 1962.
In the Arunachal Sector it withdrew quickly knowing that,in case it continues the occupation then PLA will get decimated sooner than later. In Ladhak after the fierce battle at Rezang La, it made no move forward towards Chusul or Leh.
As on date, India is the third largest economy in the World, it has indigenous nuclear weapons with capability to not only strike any corner of the Earth but to also defend itself from any attack.
India is an international superpower in all sense of the word but has no expansionist ambitions. In fact the United Nations Security Council has started losing its relevance because India is still not a Permanent member of this body.
Seeing the rise of Indian prestige, the Chinese Communist Party of China under Xi Shinping ordered the PLA to once again violate the LAC along the Indo Tibetan Border in Ladhak and teach a few lessons to India. Though at Galwan, India did get surprised by this sudden PLA attack but it was China which got the final shock. Instead of bowing down to PLA’s might, the Indian Army taught them a lesson which Xi Shinping and his politburo is bound to remember for a long long time. After all, the Chinese are said to have a very long memory.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday addressed the nation from the Red Fort on the occasion of India’s 74th Independence Day. In the speech, Modi said India’s armed forces “have given a fitting response to countries that threatened the country’s territorial sovereignty.” Without naming China or even its lackey Pakistan, a stern message was conveyed to Shinping and his mongrel.
India was developing quite smoothly, and in next 10 years was expected to attain its past glory. Now due to Wuhan Virus this pace may slow down. So China must be thinking that amid large-scale setbacks in globalization, India will not cast a shadow over its own prospect for economic advancement by ruining relations with China. Therefore PLA would easily grab all the territory as per its likes and dislikes.
Its surprising that in spite of meeting Modi so many times, the shrewd Xi Shinping made the mistake of under estimating Modi’s toughness. The Indian government has not only demonstrated its military resolve for the whole world to see but also taken the next step in the Economic Field.
Military talks are going on where Beijing hasn’t shown any sign of changing its stance. At the same time, India has also held its ground. The two countries are still at a stalemate over key issues.
India has categorically stated that Chinese will not cross the LAC as commonly understood by both the Parties. Thereafter the Indo Tibetan Border has to be negotiated to the satisfaction of all the Stake Holders and then marked both on ground and the map. Only then relations will begin to normalize between the two.
Meanwhile India has decided to decouple economically from China no matter the cost of such action. There is going to be no Economic or Social interaction with countries which conspire to attack and kill our Soldiers.
The two countries will be back on the track of peaceful coexistence and cooperation only after the issue of Indo Tibetan Border is fully resolved. The Chinese may be thinking that in the past too there had been twists and turns but things always got back to normal as per the Chinese plan. Not this time. There is going to be no business as usual.
The Indian nationalism has woken up and it cannot be bought by China. The democracy of India is fully backing the decisions of its elected leader unlike China where dissent has started brewing up in the Communist Party.
The Modi administration has deliberately made the economic sphere an extension of the military battlefield with China and decided to decouple. Indians have now decided to boycott Chinese products, they are no more fans of “Made in China” products even if these products are attractive in both price and quality.
Take the mobile phones, the very popular Chinese smartphone brands saw their market shares in India fall in June, to just 72 percent overall from high of 90% and is continuing to fall. Aim is to bring it down to zero.
Although China and India are not as closely integrated in economy like the US and China are, the two Asian countries’ economic cooperation is still quite deep and broad. If Xi Shingpin’s administration in this regard thinks that, Indian boycott will not dents its economy, then it is highly mistaken.
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative collapsed due to one single reason, that is India not joining it. Now China will lose its Indian market and next will be the SAARC market ( less Pakistan ). Also most of the multinationals too have started pulling out their manufacturing from China and moving to India and few other Countries. So ultimately it might collapse China’s economy itself. This will spark new anger against Modi’s among the Chinese Politburo.
A very simple solution awaits that is complete demarcation of Indo Tibetan Border in all respects.
