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As I've said in my post above . In nuclear or conventional war Indian defeat is imminent . There is no way India can win a war with china. We are talking about here the deterrents which avoids a war between India and china.Yes that's from a 2009 report, by NTI/ICNND. Some data in the report could from earlier times, China's data were from 1990.
China's 294 megatons of thermonuclear deterrence
A high-yield, low-warhead arsenal could also imply that the accuracy of Chinese ICBMs wasn't exactly all that impressive, at least at the time of this publication's release. Agree that's a trade off, on/before the time of this 2009 Report, the carrier China relied on was only silo-based ICBM...defence.pk
India claiming to be a "nuke power" is like Somalia claiming to be "air force power" after buying a few jets, it's not just about "have" and "have not", it's about what one has. Even if India is insane enough to press the button, their total firepower tops 1 MT (smaller than half of a single PLA 1st gen thermonuclear warhead) at best can hurt China, if they are lucky, but that means total annihilation of 1.4 billion Indians, for sure.
That's why I think China-India war will be conventional, with a clear objective to change its anti-Asia regime, and actively anticipate/mitigate any possibilities that someone in India will press the "suicidal" nuke button.
Even if indian nuke is less than 1MT that still means millions of chinese dead and few industrial cities gone which can put the economical progress on halt for few years. Is that a small price to pay for the chinese ?