INDO PACIFIC SECURITY PERSPECTIVES : CHINA AND INDIA IN A 'STATE OF WAR" AS INDIA RESISTS CHINESE MILITARY EXPANSIONISM IN EASTERN LADAKH

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

CHINA AND INDIA IN A 'STATE OF WAR" AS INDIA RESISTS CHINESE MILITARY EXPANSIONISM IN EASTERN LADAKH

The Himalayan Borders of India resting on China Occupied Tibet in September 2020 is witnessing China and India locked in a "Sate of War" as India confronts massed Chines Army military formations with matching military strength to oppose China's intended military expansionism into Indian Territory across the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

India with extensive Border Defence infrastructural improvements facilitating rapid military responses and logistics capabilities to sustain enhanced troop levels in Eastern Ladakh and on the remainder of LAC with China Occupied Tibet has sent 'Unmistakable Signals of Intent" to China that it will no longer yield to Chinese incremental nibbling attempts to alter the LAC as per Chinese claims.

India also has signaled to China that it has firm intentions not to scale down its enhanced troop levels even in the harsh winter months that will follow for the next 4-6 months.

China now is in a dilemma as to how to contend with India's unprecedented resolve to indulge in a 'Military Face-off ' with China, without 'loss of face'.

In compulsive Chinese political and military arrogance ever since Chinese Communist Party imposed its authoritarian rule over China, instead of reconciliation and a return to respecting over half a dozen Boundary Peace & Tranquility Agreements" signed since 1993, China has resorted now to dictate India to accept China's November 7 1959 Claim Line in Eastern Ladakh.

The above claims stand accompanied by China's threats that any Indian negative responses to China's new Claim Line exposes India to a full-blown 'War with China'.

India has firmly rejected the new Claim Lines demanded by China further signaling that India is prepared for all military options including a 'War with China'.

Asia and Indo Pacific Region nations need now to prepare for the eventuality of a full-blown China-India War anytime with China not ceasing its military provocations to alter the LAC to its dictates and India firmly resolved to checkmate China and stop it in its aggressive designs.

China-India War when it occurs would under present geopolitical scenario will inevitably draw-in other Major Powers disgusted with China's military expansionist policies. China would be seriously disadvantaged in such a scenario.

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Dr Subhash Kapila—Academic & Professional Profile

Dr Subhash Kapila is a Graduate of the Royal British Army Staff College.UK.: has a Masters in Defence Science from Madras University with his thesis on ‘India’s Foreign Policy in Far East Asia’ and a Doctorate from Allahabad University with his thesis in 1994 on ‘Asia Pacific Security-2000 AD Perspectives’.

Dr Subhash Kapila combines a rich and varied professional experience of Indian Army (Brigadier) in criteria appointments on Command, Staff and Instructional. Indian Army service encompassed long tenures on India’s borders with China and Pakistan.

Dr Subhash Kaila’s professional exposures also include diplomatic assignments in United States, Japan, South Korea and also official tenures in UK and Bhutan. These years of diplomatic and official assignments afforded deep insights on Asia Pacific security challenges and China-watching from different perches.

Dr Subhash Kapila has authored two books--- ‘China-India Military Confrontation:21^st Century Perspectives’ (2015) and an earlier one on India’s Defence Policies & Strategic Thought-A Comparative Analysis’ (2004)

Dr Subhash Kapila has authored over nearly 2000 Papers on Geopolitical, Foreign Policy and Strategic topics of Major Powers like USA, China, Japan and regional issues of South Asia, South East Asia and the Middle East.

Dr Subhash Kapila has presented Papers at international forums in Russia, Japan, Turkey and Vietnam and National and University Seminars in India.

Invited for TV/Radio discussions by CNN, BBC, Pakistan Geo TV and multiple Indian Channels.

INDO PACIFIC REGION—GEOPOLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE

“Indo Pacific Region encompassing the vast geographical expanse from West Coast of the United States to the Eastern Littoral of Africa on the Indian Ocean and Australia in South Pacific has emerged in recent years as a fulcrum of global security and stability.

Competing security narratives led by the United States and a reactive hardly credible narrative by China challenges foreign policy and security policies directions of Major Powers in the Indo Pacific comprising United States. India, Japan and Australia.

Needless to highlight as so many academic treatises have already done so that Indo Pacific Security Template as a strategic construct and narrative emerged so as a narrative in the last decade generated by fears of China’s not so benign intentions manifested from Himalayan Heights of China Occupied Tibet borders with India to the Western Pacific seas, and more pointedly to the South China Sea where China has indulged in military aggression ad coercive brinkmanship to establish “Full Spectrum Dominance” endangering Indo Pacific Security as a whole.”------------Dr Subhash Kaila’s earlier writings.

“The Indo Pacific has assumed tectonic significance for a wide range of nations affirming their agency in an uncertain world. Far from being an obscure account of of words and maps, the narratives of Indo Pacific nations hands a great dilemma of the 21^st Century: how can other countries respond to a strong and coercive China without resorting to capitulation or conflict.” –Professor Rory Metcalf, Australian National University.

“In this century, the Asia Pacific and the Indian Ocean Rim which some refer as the Indo Pacific will become the world’s centre of gravity.”---Australian Defence Minister