Yup you are right, we have colonel Yue on record stating in the newspaper "
only true victory is the death of Indian soldiers" and it is among the statements he made:
“The event – where Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are supposed to meet – has offered a way out of this unexpectedly tense stand-off, although there are different interpretations as to which side actually compromised more,” said Yue Gang
“Despite Beijing’s deliberate ambiguity, China has apparently made substantial concessions in order to end the dispute,” Yue said.
“India has got exactly what it has wanted. It was a humiliating defeat for China to cave in to pressure from India despite all the tough talk,” Yue said.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...-learned-tense-china-india-border-row-it-will
So occupation of Doklam by PLA has not yet happened?
Well what other way to ensure 'victory' to a military man who just witnessed few hundred foreigners invade their soil?
He did not say wrongly when he said we gave concessions, which was the road postponement. By right, we shouldn't even give such a concession. Anybody trespassing should have been shot. But do you really want war?
In Mr. Yue perspective, India got what it wanted, but in reality, 1800 soldiers are permanently entrenched there now with 2 helipads, bunkers and stores. So did India really get what it wanted? Had India used diplomatic channels, things would have been different. They won't be soldiers, there would have been patrols, for the past few years, China had been trying to be friends with India but it seems India is just too paranoid of everything we do.
You need to understand what is the purpose of a road, roads are instrument of occupation. So what just happened? Instead of being concerned about Chinese occupation, you are concerned with the road. This is the typical myopic Indian view. They cannot see that the reason why they don't want the road in the first place was because they didn't want Chinese to occupy Doklam. You get the irony?
So you are justifying that India is 'victorious' based on the views of one frustrated ex-military man? You need to change your perspective, this was a win-win situation, India think they won, China think they won. What a beauty right? You get road postponement, we get territory, the only loser is Bhutan and your promise to them.
It depends how you define occupation, it it means territory with troops permanently stationed on it, yes we just occupied it. If you meant periodic patrols to exert sovereignty, it would also be true. Depends how you look at it.
