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This isn't meant to be a provocative question: What's the messaging from India been like?

• screye 6y ago
  India is actually being quite slow in their response. The general feeling seems to be that India doesn't want escalation, but also do not want to be seen as being bullied by China. The situation right now is being described as 'tense but calm'. China changed all of the nation's maps to now include an added claim on a new piece of land in Ladakh. China also works very closely with their new proxy Govt (Oli's Nepal). So, at the same time Nepal is also changing their maps and laying claim on new land that they did not previously stake claim to. So now technically India is occupying Chinese property, and they China been clear in wanting to use force to claim it.
  • sbmthakur 6y ago
    They have been claiming Arunachal Pradesh from a long time.
• sbmthakur 6y ago
  We are still in a semi-lockdown and daily cases are still increasing. It's definitely a bad time to go for a war and the government knows that. More efforts are being put into decreasing the nation's reliance on Chinese imports. Previous tresspasses by the PLA were addressed through diplomacy and the results were good. Same approach is being tried now too.
  • t0ughcritic 6y ago
    India is seen as too soft by us in the West, for good or for worse.
    • sbmthakur 6y ago
      That's fair. For decades we did not have enough will to retaliate against our adversaries. The result was there were terror attacks in almost every major Indian city. It's only in the last five years that the leadership has shown some resolve to irradiate terrorism. The perception of India being soft will take some time to wear off.