A couple of days ago I saw a news report that China intends to occupy Ladakh. India-China tensions reveal the preparedness of China for any eventuality. Even while engaging in talks at the military command level, China seems to be preparing for confrontation, while India seems to be pinning hopes on ‘peaceful resolution ‘ and as of now its no exaggeration that India’s relations with China turned topsy-turvy after the recent violent clashes our soldiers had with Chinese. If you see, the present government has not spared a single occasion to criticise Nehru ‘s government for creating twin problems of China and Kashmir. If you observe now, our leader had visited China many times, in various capacities, and the Chinese leader too was invited to India. I have read that the meetings took place at different places, at different times for about 18 times. then should it not be discussed about important border dispute that has been simmering for decades? But whereas it has been increasingly dependent on a strategy to accuse Congress, for all this. The people of India wouldn’t be satisfied with the mere rhetoric of “saving every inch of our territory. “ When the reports and satellite maps show that that there are encroachments. The conflicting statements, Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar said on 17th June, that the Chinese side sought to erect a structure in the Galwan valley on our side of LAC, and on 19th our Honourable PM said no one had entered our territory. India-China relations have always been lopsided at India’s cost if we see history, Nehru went out of the way to promote China’s case at Bandung conference in 1955, but Zhou Enlai thought it was being patronised and we know the result, of having good faith. But after so many years, with so much enlightenment, things have not improved despite many moves made by the Modi government, to please China. I wonder who is to be blamed for all these failures, maybe they will still blame Nehru. Looking back during Dalai Lama’s visit last time, we were silent on Tibet, as China will not be happy, secondly when popular protests erupted in Hong Kong against China India maintained silence, there are many instances like this. The PM started a new tradition of the summit without Agenda with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019 at Tamilnadu ‘s Mamallapuram. India’s personality-based approach to foreign relations also helps China. Our approach has seen Nepal taking unfriendly action, against India, it even hurriedly got it approved new map by its parliament, attaching to Nepal bits and pieces of territory that is, to put it mildly, disputed. Our Government has uneasy relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and  Srilanka. While Pakistan, it’s known. China is coolly exploiting the situation, by extending financial support to improve their infrastructure, and thereby provoking them against us.
Had the government been foresighted and proactive enough, our troops, instead of doing just patrolling in the area, would have been occurring the rightful position, in the Galwan valley. We could have preempted, also, the standoff that cost us the lives of 20 Indian soldiers, etc. This is not to say that India doesn’t have any option. We shouldn’t back down till the Chinese restore status quo ante on the LAC. The economic boycott alone will not be that effective. We should isolate China diplomatically by supporting Hon Kong, Tibet, while expanding our ties with Taiwan, work closely with QUAD, lend our support to Uighurs, and oppose its adventurism in the South China Sea. Our Defence preparedness should be in top gear for the limited purpose of restoring the sanctity of LAC.