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Washington: China is unlikely to gain from the border standoff with India as the road being built by it in the Sikkim sector’s Doklam area leads to nowhere and this would push India more closer to the US and Japan, an American expert said on Friday.

The standoff will also add to the mistrust among the generation of young Indians who don’t have a lot of experience with conflict with China, Jeff Smith, director of the Asian Security Programmes, Kraemer Strategy Fellow, at the American Foreign Policy Council, said.

It will, in fact, push India more closer to the US and Japan, and generate an anti-China sentiment in India, he said.

“What are the stakes for China? It’s on a road to nowhere, essentially,” he told a Washington audience during a panel discussion on India-China border standoff.

“I’m not exactly sure what China gets out of building this road. We know what the outcome is going to be, it’s souring ties with India significantly with the Modi administration, which were already on a downward trajectory.

“It’s giving the Indian military all the ammunition it needs to lobby for more upgrades, to order infrastructure, to push India closer to the US and Japan as it’s been moving already, something that China says it doesn’t want,” he said at the event organised by Woodrow Wilson International Centre.

“Opinions of China are not very high in India to begin with, but there has not yet been a crisis like this in recent memory that would galvanise public opinion against China.

“It’s not clear to me exactly what China’s going to achieve or what strategy or goals it’s advancing by taking an uncompromising position on this dispute. It’s not clear to me exactly what China’s going to achieve or what strategy or goals it’s advancing by taking an uncompromising position on this dispute,” the American expert said.

On the other hand, stakes are very high for India. The stakes for India are quite clear and very high. Chinese control over this territory would not only nullify the one place over the line of control where it has a significant tactical advantage, but it would position Chinese forces near its very vulnerable Chicken’s neck and in the eyes of India’s military planners, present an existential threat, he said.

Nirupama Rao, who served as India’s envoy to China and the US, said the relationship between India and China, which was so carefully constructed over the last three decades, “seems to be disintegrating before our very eyes and it is all happened in a space of four to five weeks”.

“If China were to consolidate its presence of Doklam and not move out of there, essentially what you have is the pushing southward of the border line between Bhutan and China in that section, and a certain strategic advantage being offered thereby to the Chinese in terms of their ability to overlook the south Siliguri Corridor, with obvious strategic implications for India,” Rao said.

Robert Daly, director, Kissinger Institute on China and the US, said that China’s goal is most likely simply to consolidate its control over what it sees as its sovereign territories, during what it calls the period of strategic opportunity – when time remains on its side.

According to Michael Kugelman, deputy director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center, while these border standoffs again are nothing new, but there’s a reason to fear this one could be a lot more serious than any of previous ones for several reasons.

“First, overall bilateral relations between India and China are quite tense at the moment. Second, this dispute involves a third country Bhutan. Third, this plateau is highly strategic real estate to say the least. It leads to the Siliguri Corridor, a narrow area of land that connect North Eastern India to the rest of the country. “Fourth, the rhetoric on both sides, and notably from the Chinese media, has been noticeably sharp and strident. And fifth, perhaps most importantly, this dispute has set a potentially destabilising new precedent... This is the first time that Indian troops have engaged China on the soil of a third country,” Kugelman said. PTI
 
First of all, its Indian being delusion and jealous of rising China and decide to cross the line to provoke China, thinking China will just let this case rest.

The article shall be asking what Indian gain by crossing the line and testing Chinese patience.
 
First of all, its Indian being delusion and jealous of rising China and decide to cross the line to provoke China, thinking China will just let this case rest.

The article shall be asking what Indian gain by crossing the line and testing Chinese patience.

I know what India has not achieved- getting you to close that big mouth.
 
I know what India has not achieved- getting you to close that big mouth.
We will find out soon who big mouth is the fake one :enjoy:

You kidnapped the Bhutan government. Force them not to accept most countries diplomatic ties and then brag about standing up for them. Such shameless act and yet you dare to brag about it?

Its good Nepal manage to stand up against Indian bully and seek China assist. Bhutan will soon join this route too. :enjoy:
 
First of all, its Indian being delusion and jealous of rising China and decide to cross the line to provoke China, thinking China will just let this case rest.

The article shall be asking what Indian gain by crossing the line and testing Chinese patience.

No India is not jealous of China. Most people in India don't even know about China.
So lets leave that point out.

But don't you think there is little or nothing China gains by building a road to nowhere ? This road only threatens India.
 
I'm not sure of China, but President Xi might have a lot to lose if both countries withdraw forces.
Domestic politics and it's compulsions will require Xi to project himself as strong leader in face of conflict.
Therefore anything less than India bowing down, would mean that hard-line stand adopted by Chinese premier bore no favorable result which could be a potential political disaster.
In all likelihood, both nations will soften there stands in sometime from now, but even a stalemate like situation will erode Xi's authority, something his opponent would be waiting to happen.
@AUSTERLITZ @Levina @scorpionx
 
road leads to nowhere? i stopped reading this article after reading this lol.i think this american expert don't know about chickens neck lol.

Yes but that's the whole point of the article what does China gain by building a road which threatens its neighbor? and also one of it biggest trading partners.
 
We will find out soon who big mouth is the fake one :enjoy:


You kidnapped the Bhutan government. Force them not to accept most countries diplomatic ties and then brag about standing up for them. Such shameless act and yet you dare to brag about it?

Its good Nepal manage to stand up against Indian bully and seek China assist. Bhutan will soon join this route too. :enjoy:

Hope so i am completely against India interfering with other countries policies be it Bhutan or Nepal.
 
I'm not sure of China, but President Xi might have a lot to lose if both countries withdraw forces.
Domestic politics and it's compulsions will require Xi to project himself as strong leader in face of conflict.
Therefore anything less than India bowing down, would mean that hard-line stand adopted by Chinese premier bore no favorable result which could be a potential political disaster.
In all likelihood, both nations will soften there stands in sometime from now, but even a stalemate like situation will erode Xi's authority, something his opponent would be waiting to happen.
@AUSTERLITZ @Levina @scorpionx

I don't feel like Xi has much riding on this situation, most people who have a problem with him don't really care about the Sino-Indian border. But are instead driven by domestic politics.
 
We will find out soon who big mouth is the fake one :enjoy:


You kidnapped the Bhutan government. Force them not to accept most countries diplomatic ties and then brag about standing up for them. Such shameless act and yet you dare to brag about it?

Its good Nepal manage to stand up against Indian bully and seek China assist. Bhutan will soon join this route too. :enjoy:

Man a friendship treaty with Bhutan existed since 1949.

I know you are ignorant because the CCP censors lot of your media and access to neutral sources like Google.
 
First of all, its Indian being delusion and jealous of rising China and decide to cross the line to provoke China, thinking China will just let this case rest.

The article shall be asking what Indian gain by crossing the line and testing Chinese patience.

I believe India and China should work together to remove the mistrust. We oppose the road construction because we feel its a threat to our national security.

Lets create an environment of trust and i am sure we can even have trans Himalayan highways. China has to take Indian concerns and fears in to consideration.
 
Man a friendship treaty with Bhutan existed since 1949.

I know you are ignorant because the CCP censors lot of your media and access to neutral sources like Google.

He is ready to pop his vein. Kidnapped Bhutan govt...lol
 
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