China in mid-May 2020 indulged in military escalation at multiple points on India's borders with China Occupied Tibet in Eastern Ladakh Sector in tandem with its escalation in South China Sea and East China Sea against Japan.
Unlike past border confrontations, China's aggression against India was squarely met by military force by India. This resulted in loss of 20 Indian soldiers lives but China paid the price in terms of 43 or more Chinese soldiers dead in clashes. China was initially hesitant to concede loss of Chinese soldiers lives in military clashes with India.
Significantly and symbolically, this is a tipping point in the nature and dimensions of India's responses to Chinese military provocations generated from massed Chinese military forces deployed in China Occupied Tibet.
Today, India reportedly has reinforced its military deployments in Ladakh and along the entire stretch of the 4,000 km long India-China Occupied Tibet Himalayan Borders mostly lying in high-altitudes of over 12,000 feet.
India seems to be signalling to China with near-matching military deployments opposite Chinese military forces that it intends to "squarely" face any Chinese attempts to alter the status-quo of the existing Line of Actual Control (LAC) anywhere on the India-China-Occupied Borders.
China in the last 70 years has consistently refused to settle the territorial boundary dispute with India and has kept tensions alive to perpetuate its attempted political and military coercion of India.
India in 2020 in terms of its political will of its leadership and India's war-preparedness to meet the China Threat is unlike the 1962 Sino-Indian Military Conflict where a military debacle was foisted on the proud and highly professional Indian Army due to failure of war-preparedness by political leadership of India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru with his starry-eyed illusionary attachment to Communist China's emergence and its military intentions.
Significantly, it has to be observed that China in keeping with its strategy employed all over the Indo Pacific once again demonstrated its propensity to resort to military aggression and conflict on territorial disputes and also renege on past Agreements signed with India---at least half a dozen since 1996--- to maintain peace and tranquillity on the borders.
China may have got away by bullying its way and coercing militarily its smaller ASEAN neighbours in the South China Sea territorial disputes but in case of India the picture is different.
India today is a Sub-Continental Emerged Power with high economic growth rates and modern Indian Armed Forces.
India under PM Modi in the last six years has been seriously engaged in reducing the military differentials with China and also fast-tracking its development of defence infrastructure in its border regions with China Occupied Tibet.
The above has rattled China along with India's growing geopolitical stature in the world coupled with a substantive US-India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
The India-China Occupied Border territorial dispute perpetuated by China, going by present portents, has all the ingredients to emerge as the most combustible military flashpoints in Indo Pacific Asia and in which the Major Powers of the Indo Pacific would not have the luxury of passive spectators.
