DM Monitoring
BEIJING: Indian military top brass is actively misleading the country to go to war in order to help Modi administration extricate itself from the domestic crisis.
“As I have said many times, China doesn’t want to be hostile to India, nor does it wish to have a war with India.
However, China is not afraid of war, and China has a strong military capability to defend its territory from invasion,” Cheng Xizhong, visiting professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law and former Defense Attache in South Asian countries said on Tuesday.
China’s friendly cooperation with Pakistan does not target any third party. However, China firmly supported friendly countries in South Asia, including Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, to safeguard their national sovereignty and territorial integrity, he said in a statement issued here.
He said, China’s Ministry of National Defense sent a positive signal about the eighth round of China-India Corps Commander-level meeting, saying that both sides agreed to earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, ensure their frontline troops to exercise restraint and avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation.
Both sides agreed to maintain dialogue and communication through military and diplomatic channels, and push for the settlement of other outstanding issues, so as to jointly maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas.
According to my observation, since May this year, in order to ease the border tension, China has made constant efforts to create a favorable public opinion environment for resolving the military confrontation on the border.
During the meetings between foreign ministers and defense ministers as well as military and diplomatic talks, China has always shown a very sincere attitude to resolve the issues.
After each meeting, according to the consensus reached by both sides, China sends a positive signal to the outside world in favor of easing the border tension.
However, the Indian side always moves in the opposite direction. As for the settlement of the border issue through talks between the two sides, people rarely see any positive statement by the Indian officials.
India’s media always hype up the issue and constantly send out negative information, deliberately aggravating the border tension. India’s military top brass, in particular, have been clamoring for war from time to time. On November 6, the day of the eighth round of Corps Commander-level meeting, General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defense Staff, warned that a ‘larger conflict’ with China could not be ruled out if the border confrontation and unprovoked military actions spiraled.
He also said that China and Pakistan acting in collusion meant an omnipresent danger of regional instability with potential for escalation. On October 5, Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria, Chief of Air Staff, threatened that the Indian Air Force was ready to carry out air attack on China. He even said that the Indian Air Force was ready to fight on two fronts in the face of escalating tensions with both China and Pakistan.
Analysts observe that after holding the “2 + 2” dialogue and signing a military cooperation agreement with the United States, and obtaining some Rafale fighters from France recently, India seems to be losing its sense gradually.
In particular, the Indian military top brass is actively misleading the country to go to war in order to help Modi administration extricate itself from the domestic crisis, he said.
Earlier, India’s military relations with the United States (US) is not conducive to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, Cheng Xizhong, visiting professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law and former Defense Attache in South Asian countries, former UN Senior Military Observer said on Thursday.
“In my opinion the signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) between the United States and India is not of great significance.” This is the fourth basic military agreement reached between the two countries since 2002, he said in a statement issued here.
According to the BECA, the United States and India will share satellite and other sensor data. The American satellite technology is the most advanced in the world, but how much information and technology the United States will share with India depends on India’s strategic cooperation with the United States. The United States has very harsh conditions for giving technology to others.
Cheng said at the moment, defense relations between the United States and India are not very pragmatic. The United States wants India to serve its “Indo-Pacific Strategy”.
India wants to obtain advanced weapons and military technology from the United States.
But so far, the United States has only approved about 20 billion US dollars of arms for India, adding, “I feel that, to a large extent, India and the United States are using each other.”
He observed that India has very big ambitions and is good at playing games in international affairs. India believes that it is on an equal footing with the United States and wants to become a big power in Asia and in the world.
Therefore, I believe India will not follow the United States completely and will not be willing to be a little brother like Japan, South Korea and Australia.
The time for the “2+2” dialogue must have been decided by India and the United States through full consultations. As far as India is concerned, it’s a very difficult time for the Modi administration. The novel coronavirus pneumonia is out of control, the economy is falling sharply, and its relations with neighboring countries continue to be tense.
India is now in a difficult situation both at home and abroad. So, India badly needs help from the United States.
Cheng said that as far as the United States is concerned, it is difficult to say how long Mike Pompeo will continue to serve as Secretary of State. Therefore, Mike Pompeo wishes to show his ability to make trouble before going out of office.
The United States is a global troublemaker, and India is a regional troublemaker.
“I think the United States and India have something in common – creating troubles and trying to do harm to others.”
Mutual utilization by the United States and India, especially India’s military approach to the United States, is of course not conducive to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.
In particular, it will add complex factors to the Trans Himalayan region, he concluded.
