Today entire world is facing an
unprecedented situation due to this covid 19 pandemic .Even in such a scenario
china is not mending its ways. The massive deployment of troops along the Line
of Actual Control and expansionist policy of china reveals its double face and
which frequently violates past agreements. Several rounds of corps commander
level talks were held between India and China, but no significant outcome has
achieved. After the first round of talks on 6 June 2020, clashes occurred in
Galwan Valley on 15 June 2020 that claimed 20 lives of Indian soldiers and an
unknown number of casualties on the Chinese side.
The faceoff's and standoff's keep occurring due difference in perception
on the alignment. Of greater significance will be realization within the
PLA leadership that India's emerging combined arms and firepower has the
potential to inflict significant attrition on the PLA's combat potential
in and around the tactical battle area.
In addition, Indian Navy is increasing its footprints and assertive
maritime posturing that will act as deterrence in containing the aggressive PLA
Navy and increasing articulation on the need to ensure freedom of navigation
which reflects a strong willingness on India's part to move boldly and tackle
an adversary on the high seas rather than stay in the backwaters.
Today India is confidently forming an alliance like QUAD group comprising
India, US, Japan, Australia to counter the dominance of china and will ensure
the balance of power. India is also focusing on other key aspects including
maritime security cooperation, providing alternative to the Belt and Road
initiative, cooperation in 5 G , cyberspace, artificial
intelligence etc.
On diplomatic front, India has turned
US and Russia on its side. As in Eurasian region, Russia continues to be
important to India and you don’t want to have a platform to your rivals that is
china and Pakistan.
On economic front, India's trade deficit with china was $53.56 billion in 2018-2019 which fell to $48.66 billion in 2019-2020. There is also emergent nature of threats from mobile applications such as Tiktok , UC browser , Weibo etc. India remains reliant on Chinese products in several critical and strategically significant and sensitive sectors like semiconductors, telecom, automobile, pharmaceuticals etc.
For countering the dragon,
it is extremely important and imperative to work on multiple fronts that is military,
diplomatic, political, and economic aspects only then this dragon can be tamed
and status quo ante at the borders can be restored.
