It's not a spin, it's a fact, you created a mess by claiming to protect Bhutan then left them. If we controlled that plateau, we wouldn't need to negotiate and trade territories with Bhutan right? It was disputed from the start. China had no intention of militarizing that plateau, roads were used for patrols and that's it. Out of your own insecurity and blatant disregard for peace, you created a mess, instead of reducing security threats, you just created one. Humiliated ourselves? It was not just a dirt road, the road before that were all paved to military grade for vehicles. We had the courtesy to inform the Indian side about our intention and there were no replies, had this been discussed on a bilateral channel, things wouldn't need to go this far. You must understand China had no intention to create conflicts, India created this conflict. You could have used proper channels to show protest.
Zoom in the images carefully and you will see concrete roads instead of the so called dirt road you thought it was. Those roads were a concern for India because there were military grade road capable of handling tanks.
Take a look at that google images properly and understand the situation, it's a plateau as I told you, if we go a few hundred meters behind, we would also be on a higher ground, so? The fact remains, there is only one road up to that plateau and you are hanging by a cliff. Do you know the significance of a piece of flat real estate at high altitude facing Silliguri?
. You were already at Doka La for decades bhai. How much can you militarize on the side of a cliff? You know how many howitzers we can put on that flat big piece of real estate?
. If you have any strategic mind, you would have known that, China at all cost should never be allowed to control that flat piece of plateau.
Doklam is a plateau, as per treaty, you are at your side fringes of Doklam, we are at the flat plateau of Doklam. Compensate what disadvantage? A km of roads to a cliff for patrols doesn't add any advantage bro, a base on that flat high altitude plateau does.
. Well we had no intention at all to militarize Doklam, now you gave us an excuse. You need to understand China is not a conflict seeking nation especially on a country as generous as India giving us 50bil$ surplus annually. Imagine if we tried to militarize that area, and India protested as per proper channels, I believe out of diplomatic concerns, we might have just stopped since there is no claims on Sikkim at all. The opposite happened now. You have no excuse for peaceful protest, we will just militarize based on your 'threat' to us.
This is what you said previously...being forgetful again? hehe
That was the propaganda being thrown around in our forum previously. The point is we can't do anything even if we cared, Sikkim was below plateau, we can't hold AP let alone prevent you from annexing Sikkim. How can we lose something, when we didn't even fight for it in the first place?
. Aksai Chin was the disputed territory, we captured it, it's ours, if you want to annex Bhutan, we can't stop you, the UN is the one responsible.
I don't understand all this Indian obsession about us invading you. Geographically it is impossible for us to invade India. We can only attack and hold Aksai Chin. Chinese designs on the border is mostly for defense purposes, check the troop deployment in Tibet vs your deployment in your NE area. You have a almost 8 to 1 superiority in terms of number. That base is use as a strategic node to cut off Siliguri not INVADE INDIA. If case India and China were to fight in AP, Doklam is the node that will cut off Siliguri. In the meantime, at least for the next few decades, China has no intention of invading India, hell business is good and booming, why kill the golden goose.
Patrolled by Bhutan? are you sure my friend?
. Previously the Bhutanese do make patrols into that plateau, with a Chinese base there, you think they will 'patrol'. You must be pretty naive. Btw, how many times did you NSA and PM came to China begging to negotiate? and how many times did we go to India? It was you who came to beg for peace, not US.
Bhutan is an Indian poodle, I can't control their PM. Rice concessions? River sharing? Since when did we have a river sharing agreement with you? You mean basmati rice import? Bro you give us a 50bil$ surplus importing industrial goods, of course we will buy your rice.