@Sseeji@KanwalSibal@suhasinih US now realises that China has grown too strong to be contained, so India's role ceases to be indispensable, if it ever was. Secondly, our dispute with China isn't merely territorial; China wants to prevent India's potential rise in IOR and pose a threat in the Strait of Malacca.
@Chellaney China didn't rise because US 'allowed' it' to rise. It craftily enticed flow of US capital and technology into China; it was greed and foolishness of US to fall into the trap. Similarly, India's rise would depend on its intrinsic strengths, and not on US mercy.
@Chellaney There are times in the history of a country when silence is better than futile and counterproductive confrontation. China did it till it grew too big for US. Modi is rightly keeping mum now, waiting for our time; and our time will definitely come.
@CommanMan777589@LtGenDPPandey This type of national insults happen when there is vast asymmetry in the relative power and leverage or when we do not have the geographical reach needed to exercise the available power. At that time, we didn't have the both, and today also we do not have the same.
@LtGenDPPandey The Captain must be admired for his creative imagination, instead of foolishly being criticised. He broke no rules. My best wishes to the couple!
@Chellaney@washingtonpost Modi has really transformed Indians from self-pitying people to the confident Indians. That is the greatest achievement that the outsiders rarely understand!
@KatochPrakash His cognitive functions have deteriorated to the level wherefrom he fails to realise that he would need to change the US constitution to remain in power after his present term ends, and that he cannot do it!
@SoldierNationF1 I echo your thoughts, General Chouhan! Enemy is enemy, rules cannot be applicable to one side only. Attack when the enemy least expects is the best tactic.
@KabirTaneja It cannot be termed as a regional kerfuffle, it is much more than what you say. Yet I agree that India arguably had no role in it. Outcome was uncertain, it was always China prompting behind Pak. No good dabbling in the muddy waters.
@Chellaney A real strategic thinker that Brahm Chellaney likes to be identified as, needs to be objective and impartial. But he has chosen to be anti-Modi; for whatever happens Modi is to be blamed. As a scholar, Chellaney needs to build credibility around himself.
@Chellaney Brahma Chellaney, like Congress Party, has come to find faults in everything Indian. Who would matter more to the world, a begging, broke, Pakistan, or India, having its own intrinsic strengths? World needs Pak because of its disruptive value. Do we need to compete?
@Chellaney Why we should die for a role that Pakistan has been assigned to? Like Pakistan we cannot be a Trump's messenger to force his agenda. Let us maintain our own dignity. Entire discussion is meaningless.
@KanwalSibal This war has shattered the myth that Islam would be an unified force among the Muslim nations. National interests and geopolitical compulsions, not the religion, continue to shape the foreign, policies of every country.