After Beijing protested against the remarks made by the Chief of Defense Staff General Biping Lavat that China is India’s biggest security threat, people have a sense of deja vu. About 23 years ago, the then Secretary of Defense George Fernandez said in an interview that China poses a potential threat to India, and as a result was met with a series of protests and criticisms from China and its domestic supporters. Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, told the media on Thursday: “Indian officials have unprovoked speculations about the so-called Chinese military threat, which seriously violates the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries that China and India do not pose a threat to each other.
It is irresponsible to instigate geopolitical confrontation. And danger.” Although it is well known in the past that China will select speeches based on its political goals, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense can easily forget that General Lavat’s observations came from the PLA’s attempts to unilaterally change Donglang’s ground position in 2017 and 2017. Ladakh LAC in May 2020. The fact that India and China went to war twice is enough to confirm General Rawat’s assessment. When the Doklam incident occurred in May 2020, General Rawat was the chief of staff of the Indian Army, and when the deviant incident occurred, General Rawat was the chief of staff of the Indian Army.
When the Chinese Ministry of National Defense reminded General Lavat of the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, the spokesperson inexplicably forgot that the People’s Liberation Army threw out the window the written, signed, and sealed 1993 and 1996 bilateral border agreements when trying to impose on others. . In India, the 1959 line was rejected on the Ladakh LAC. The same happened in Daulet Beg Oldi (DBO) district Depsang Bulge and Demchok’s Charding Nullah Junction (CNJ) in 2013.
The fact is that the actions taken by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army on the line of actual control after the Tibetan uprising before the 2008 Beijing Olympics can be proved by no other logic except military. Since June 2020, the People’s Liberation Army has deployed nearly 50,000 soldiers on the Ladakh line of control, equipped with missiles, tanks and rocket regiments as support. Fighters are on standby. People must be naive or weak before they can be regarded as A benign and heavily guarded posture of the Chinese army.
So far, China has not even explained why it decided to unilaterally change its location on the north shore of Pangong Co, putting the growing bilateral relationship in a deep freeze. Why did Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the commander-in-chief of the People’s Liberation Army, leave the time and time with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Wuhan and Chennai under the car? Why should China, with the help of the Chinese army, force Bhutan, a small Himalayan country, to open its borders and establish trade and diplomatic relations with Beijing?
News Source : Hindustan Times
