Things along the Indian-Chinese border in the Himalayas have rarely lacked interest, notably along the secretive, heavily patrolled 3,488 km Line of Actual Control. Neither China nor India have ever quite sorted out their differences on that front, plagued by territorial claims over unclearly demarcated boundaries. The administration of Narendra Modi might well have wood global governments, but China’s Xi Jinping has remained cool. Old habits die hard, and memories of India’s disastrous defeat in 1962 against its populous neighbour remain vivid.
Early last month, soldiers from both armies engaged in a fistfight of sizeable proportion akin to a large kindergarten brawl. The encounter at 14,000 feet was followed by further confrontations at points along the border of approximately a thousand miles apart. These were not marked by gun fire but a generous use of hands, clubs and rocks. A muscular Chinese response ensued: the appearance of dump trucks, excavators, troop carriers and various armoured vehicles with artillery pieces, some of these, according to Indian analysts, positioned on Indian territory. Such encounters reminded Sunanda K. Datta Ray of Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger – “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.”
The list of grievances between the countries is vast, a thick dossier of resentment. The traditional eye-sore remains India’s north-eastern Arunachal Pradesh state, or “South Tibet”, as Beijing prefers to term it. But to that can be added the novel coronavirus spread (blame on that front has been rich), inefficient responses due to insufficient safety equipment, the Silk Road project, trade competition, information technology and the PRC’s growing influence in Africa and Asia.
The issue with personal protective equipment has been particularly testy. In April, a consignment of 170,000 PPE kits from China, including donations for the use of health care professionals dealing with COVID-19 sufferers, were tested by the Defence Research and Development Establishment in Gwalior. The results were not good; around 63,000 were found to fall short of the necessary quality deemed appropriate by the DRDE. None of this was good news given orders placed by Indian companies and government bodies for 15 million PPE kits from the PRC that month. As India’s ambassador to China Vikram Misri described at the time, “We are in the process of, or have already completed, contracting for 15 million PPE kits, consisting of gowns, masks, gloves, goggles, etc. and nearly 1.5 million rapid testing kits of all kinds, some of which have already been delivered.”
On Monday, the kindergarten brawling had moved beyond sticks and stones. In eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley, the tension of 40 days between the troops of both countries exploded. Initial word came through on Tuesday from the Indian army that an officer and two soldiers had been killed. By the evening, figures were revised: 17 troops had been critically injured at the standoff location, succumbing to their wounds at sub-zero temperatures.
The diplomats were mobilised. India’s External affairs ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava explained that the Monday encounter in Galwan Valley occurred when Chinese soldiers “departed from the consensus to respect the LAC (Line of Actual Control)” in an attempt to “unilaterally change the status quo”. The ministry’s assessment was short on detail in terms of how the PLA supposedly attempted this challenge, though suggestions have been made to the establishment of a Chinese observation post on the Indian side of the LAC that was whisked away by Indian soldiers.
The Chinese account was shaped by a different script. “The clash,” the PRC Global Times stated gravely, “took place after Indian troops crossed the border to conduct illegal activities and launched provocative attacks against Chinese personnel, leading to top physical defence measures from Chinese troops that reportedly caused the deaths of one Indian Army colonel and two soldiers.”
According to Senior Colonel Zhang Shuili, spokesperson for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Western Theatre Command, “China has always maintained sovereignty over the Galwan Valley region, and the words of Indian border defence troops are inconsistent and seriously violate agreements both countries have reached, seriously infringe upon the consensus made in the army commander-level talks and seriously harm the relations of the two militaries and the sentiment of the people in both nations.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian was also pointing the finger at a serious challenge to the alleged “consensus reached in the two countries’ commander-level talks on June 6”, with Indian soldiers conducting unspecified “illegal activities” and assaulting Chinese personnel on two occasions. (The talks on this supposed consensus had been conducted at two locations along the LAC, with brigadier-ranked officers taking their cue in Galwan Valley and Colonel-ranked officers meeting in Hot Springs.)
The deaths mark the first fatal encounter between the two powers since October 1975, when an Indian patrol was ambushed in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tulung La sector, leaving four dead. But both powers have a way to go before reaching the levels of bad blood brought out by the 73-day standoff in 2017 at Doklam, a territory both China and Bhutan claim. On June 18, 2017, 270 Indian troops ventured into Doklam from Sikkim with the express purpose of halting the PRC’s extension of an existing road from Dokala southward to Zornpelri, site of the Bhutan Army camp near the Jampheri Ridge. The successful construction of the extension would have given the PLA room to approach the strategic corridor in West Bengal known colloquially as the Chicken’s Neck. Tensions spiked; confusion reigned and, on August 28, the soldiers of both sides were withdrawn.
Despite the furious huffing from Beijing and New Delhi, the world’s most populous countries are set for more brawls, contained by the slimmest understanding that a broader conflict would be calamitous to regional and global stability. From an Indian perspective, 1962 remains unavenged, though politicians such as Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, are clear in their warning and assessment: “China has clearly twisted the crisis into a strategic opportunity by taking advantage of the geopolitical distraction.” Fine as it might be to preach the virtues of peace, but not “at the cost of our territorial integrity.”
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The Indians will never learn !
At this point let us understand the psyche of the Indians as laid down by Beruni !
The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.
They are haughty, foolishly vain, self-conceited, and stolid.
They are by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from men of another caste among their own people,still much more, of course, from any foreigner…
If they travelled and mixed with other nations, they would soon change their mind, for their ancestors were not as narrow-minded as the present generation is.
This wrong estimate of themselves blinded the Hindus and they assumed a false sense of superiority which ultimately proved their ruin
The Indian Martial Races are called the Kshatriyas ! These weasels have ruled over the Dalits and Farmers for 2000 years.Their misplaced sense of their heroism and bravery – ;led them to underestimate their enemies,create enemies,provoke enemies – and which ultimately led to the destruction of their kingdoms at the hands of the Mongols,Turks,Afghans,Mughals,Scythians,Sakas, Mongols, Brits,Portugese,Abyssians.
These Kshatriya weasels are the Rajputs,Jats and the Modern Day Sikhs (who were Rajputs and Jats in the past).Who are these Kshatriyas ? They are lineaged from a mythical weasel warrior called Arjuna
People ask – how did 500 Pakistanis enter into Kargil in the Kargil war ? What were the Hindoo Kshatriyas doing ?
It is simple ! They are a race of rats and cowards !
They are the sons of Arjuna the coward rat eunuch !
Arjuna – was “cursed by Urvashi “,to be an “impotent and a eunuch”
The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Indralokagamana Parva: Section XLVI
O Partha, thou shalt have to pass thy time among females unregarded, and as a dancer, and “destitute of manhood and scorned as a eunuch
PEOPLE SAY THAT THE AFGHANS MARAUDED AND RAPED THE INDIAN KSHATRIYAS – AND SO PEOPLE SAY – Y COUL D THE MILLIONS OD INDIANS NOT STAND UP TO A FEW THOUSAND INVADERS ?
AGAIN LOOK AT THE HINDOO MYTHOLOGY OF THE MAHABHARATA !
Arjuna the rat could not save Krishna’s wives from being raped
Mahabharata, Book 16: Mausala Parva: Section 7
In the very sight of all the warriors, many “foremost of ladies were dragged away, while others went away with the robbers of their own accord” .
Arjuna the rat could not save Krishna’s wives from being raped
Mahabharata, Book 16: Mausala Parva: Section 7
Those Mlecchas, however, O Janamejaya, in the very sight of Partha, retreated, “taking away” with them, many “foremost ladies” of the Vrishnis and Andhakas
IN GALWAN AGAIN THESE INDIAN KSHATRIYA RATS AND WEASELS HAVE MADE A MONUMENTAL BLUNDER ! IS IS LINE WITH THE 2000 YEAR HISTORY OF BLUNDERS BY THESE KSHATRIYA RATS – LIKE BERUNI SAID 1000 YEARS AGO !
AND SO,WE COME TO THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE ! WHO ARE THESE KSHATRIYAS ?
As per the Mahabharata, Kshatriyas were born, when Kshatriya women (on heat) “were raped by Brahmins”, w/o marriage and hence, were “born as a bastard race” with the “zero IQ and potency of Brahmins” and the “cowardice, treachery and chicanery of the Brahmins”
SECTION LXIV – Mahbharata – Adivansavatarana Parva
The son of Jamadagni (Parasurama), after twenty-one times making the earth bereft of Kshatriyas wended to that best of mountains Mahendra and there began his ascetic penances.
And at that time when the earth was bereft of Kshatriyas, the Kshatriya ladies, “desirous of offspring”, used to come, O monarch, to the Brahmanas and Brahmanas of rigid vows had connection with them during the womanly season alone, but never, O king, lustfully and out of season.
And Kshatriya ladies by “thousands conceived from such connection” with Brahmanas.
Jats
The Hindoos claim that Jats are born from the “Jata of Shankar”.Jats are proven to be of “Central Asian/Scythian Origin”, and were “basically pirates,bandits and mercenaries”.
Their only claim to fame is the “sacking of the TajMahal”, which they looted and pillaged, and made their own Jai Mahal, and their “digging up and defiling” of the “grave and bones”, of Akbar (by dragging the bones out)
Rajputs
“The word “Rajput” is used in certain parts of Rajasthan to denote the illegitimate sons of a Kshatriya chief or Jagirdar.” [Mahajan Vidya Dhar,”Ancient India”, Fifth Edition, Reprint 1972, Chand and Co., New Delhi. p. 550 ff.])
This explains Rajput history – QED !
Let us take 1 more step back ! Where did these weasels come from ? The Agnikula, Suryavanshi, Chandravanshi ……
This is also all COCK and BULL.After the plunder and rape of The Hindoos by the Sakas, Scythians,Huns ……..,the Brahmins needed a force to stand up,to the invaders and boost the shattered ego and confidence,of these Indian Weasels.
So they concocted the BULL,about the Agnikula, Suryavanshi, Chandravanshi …….Each of these BULL shit lies,were concocted by a new series of Brahmins,at different points of time, as the earlier breed REFUSED TO FIGHT !
Sikhs
A race pillaged the Brahmins and Dogra weasel Rajputs, who had their Gurus killed due to the Hindoos and whose Golden Temple was under the Control of Brahmins with Hindoo Idols in it (till around early 1900s).Their Constantine – Ranjit Singh achieved his victory only due to the American and French Generals – running his artillery and cavalry !
After the death of Ranjit Singh his wife and sons were killed by the Dogra weasels
Yadavs
As per the Gita, Lord Krishna considered Yadav’s to be “a curse on the planet and tried to exterminate all the Yadavs”
When Krsna had killed the demons, and thus relieved the burden of the earth, he thought, ‘The earth is stilloverburdened by the unbearably burdensome race of the Yadus. No one else can overcome them, since theyare under my protection.’ … Deluded by Krsna’s power of delusion, and cursed by the Brahmins, they were all destroyed, and when his entire family had been destroyed, Krsna said, ‘The burden has been removed.’ ” — Srimad Bhagavatam 10:90:27-44; 11:1:1-4; 11:30:1-25
As per the Mahabharata, after Krishna was killed, “his wives were raped and molested by Robbers”, and the “offspring so born”, were called Yadavs
THESE KSHATRIAS ARE A MERCENARY RACE,WHO VENTED THEIR DISGRACE AND FRUSTRATION,ON THE HAPLESS DALITS AND LOWER CASTES OF INDIA (TO HIDE THEIR COWARDICE AND DUBIOUS HISTORY)THESE VERMIN RUINED INDIA,AS THEY OVERESTIMATED THEIR SKILLS, PROVOKED INVADERS,AND THEN GOT PLASTERED.
THAT IS INDIAN HISTORY ! dindooohindoo
The Brits saw the POTENTIAL OF THESE VERMIN “AS MERCENARIES” and used them TO THEIR BEST POTENTIAL IN SUPPRESSING REBELLIONS AND ACTING AS SPIES.THAT IS THE TRUTH ! IT WAS THESE KSHATRIYAS THAT FORMED THE CORE AND BULK OF ALL THE INVADERS WHO RULED OVER INDIA !