Having made two major probing actions, Doklam in 2017 and now in Ladakh, China has to assimilate the fact that the Indian forces provide the wherewithal to their government to take a tough stance along its entire land borders.
The Chinese have been holidaying from 1st to 8th October. The period is associated with their National day and mid-Autumn celebrations. The Chinese would have tested their tourism industry’s post-COVID resilience and capacity of hosting large tourist traffic. However, on their western borders thousands of Chinese soldiers are preparing to face blizzards, snowdrifts, minus 50-degree centigrade temperatures, hypoxia, acute mountain sickness, frostbites, chill blains, hypothermia, high altitude pulmonary oedema, and maybe even a bullet. Hopefully, all that will not have doused the fun and frolic kicked off by the National Day. If there are any indications, the CCP wants it to be business as usual. The purpose of business houses is to make money for their shareholder. The Chinese are pursuing it, relentlessly, even as another busload of bawling young soldiers are flagged off for frontlines. Read More…
