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China’s Future Moves : Insidious and Indirect
- July 13, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Strategic Affairs
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Earlier, I had written that the Chinese will start talking peace once the odds are against them. The standoffs had only two outcomes. They end at a table and China withdraws to resume as an unmanned LAC or we end up with a manned LAC. We are heading generally in that direction.
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China’s Strategic Myopia
- July 9, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Strategic Affairs
The Sino Indian military pause is part of a geostrategic continuum. Some domestic and international experts opine that India is cornered and in a pickle. They are as myopic as the PRC planners. Bottom line. It has been China’s choice to come in uninvited. it is India’s choice to let it go back.
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Sino-Pak Nexus: Collusivity and Beyond
- July 3, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Pakistan, Strategic Affairs
Editor’s Note
Pakistan Army makes hay as long as the sun shines. Over and above its bid for a 20 per cent pay hike, it’s expanding business interests at a hitherto unforeseen scale. Now they are partners in funding the construction of DiamerBhasha Dam project in Gilgit-Baltistan along with a Chinese company. Are there any options left for Pakistan beyond the dark abyss or the unfathomable dungeon. The author gives his assessment of the future Pakistan that we have to contend with.
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Satyameva Jayate (Truth alone prevails)
- July 3, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: China, Military, Strategic Affairs
My thoughts are with Col Santosh Babu and our soldiers who sacrificed themselves for us in Galwan. Their bravery will be an example and inspiration for future generations of Indians.
They have given their today for our tomorrow.My heart goes to their families and near and dear ones. My salutes to them.
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The Weak Heart of CPEC – Neglected Beyond Repair?
- July 2, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Pakistan, SAARC, Strategic Affairs
Editor’s Note
We have already published a fairly large number of articles by the author on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in BharatShakti. in. This article focuses primarily on the cascading effects of the CPEC on Baluchistan. Baluchistan, apparently, will barely have marginal gains while contributing the most among the Pakistani provinces for CPEC. The protests of the locals are already audible and are likely to rise in decibel levels as the project progresses. -
Galwan: China’s Information War
- June 29, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
In an unprecedented disregard for the prevalent peace and tranquility along the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC), PLA troops transgressed the LAC at three locations in eastern Ladakh, forcing the Indian Army to prevent them from any ingress leading to faceoff at Galwan and Pangang Tso. Again in a first since 20 October 1975, 20 Indian soldiers made the supreme sacrifice at Galwan when implementing an agreement arrived at by top military commanders on 6 June 2020.
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India-China standoff : Need to be prepared for two-and-half front war (Part III of three-part series)
- June 26, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected,” Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
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Lessons from History
- June 25, 2020
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
At the turn of the 20th century, George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, writer and essayist, wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We Indians possess a unique ability to wax eloquent on our civilisational heritage and yet remain remarkably ignorant, or pay little heed to, or learn from events that have occurred in the not too distant past.
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Reset Sino-Indian ties: A long road lies ahead
- June 25, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Foreign Affairs, Military, Strategic Affairs
The second meeting at Chushul-Moldo between Lt. Gen. Harinder Singh, India’s 14 Corps GOC, and his PLA counterpart on June 22 continued for over 11 hours, and resulted in only a short, crisp decision to disengage.
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The ‘Thug’ Army meets ‘Made in India’ steel
- June 25, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Military, Strategic Affairs
China’s PLA is not a professional army. It is a uniformed group of thugs which serve the Chinese Communist Party. The premeditated ambush of the braves of 16 Bihar at the Galwan Valley last week was planned to make it appear like a reckless Indian Army action, “valiantly” defended by the innocent Chinese.
