If China & Pakistan attack India together, is the Indian Army strong enough to protect the nation?
China silently occupied more than 32km area of Indian border. 13 Chinese satellites focus all activities of Indian Army. PAK increasing its Army in Indian border . SRI LANKA is giving its 2 Army Airports to CHINA . Naxals already a threat inside (funded by China).
I know India has missiles such as Agni & Prithvi, but is it good enough?
Apparently relations are well with China but if that is the case why is China preparing as if they are about to go on war with India? Revenge for TIBET issue?
Your views, thank you.
2010-09-13T01:05:56Z
That brings me to another question...If China & India go to war, who will USA support? Keep in mind the economic relations between USA & CHINA.
MS - Believe in Ek Oankaar2010-09-13T06:14:24Z
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Madhukar ji has given a great answer and let me add few things to that....
First of all Pakistan cannot afford to attack India with China. Why I say so? By doing that, Pakistan looses its biggest and greatest ally United States. One of the main reason why US supports Pakistan is because to reduce Chinese influence in the region, and the day United Status loosed its purpose, Pakistan is of no use of them.
Second, Sri Lanka may allow China, Nepal and Bangladesh may allow China to use their soil for various purpose but they cannot never allow China to use their soil to attack India. As soon as they do that, they loose their aid and ally like India, European nations and UK, and also they face sections from United Nations. Sri Lanka who already under fire from Europe because Tamil issues cannot never dream of such disaster.
I agree with Madhukarji these are tactics of proxy war nothing more than that. This is not 1962 that China can walk into India and take away the land of its desire.
Lets talk about almighty dragon itself.
We all read about Chinese economy, we all know that Chinese economy is very strong, it is growing, it is growing and it may leave behind United States in coming years etc etc. But I am sure we all are well aware of these facts too:
1. Chine economy is totally dependent of export. 2. The quality of Chinese product is B class if not C class. 3. Chinese currency value is manipulated by that government and is not open in international market for evaluation. 4. All the data that is available for China is provided by Chinese government and government sponsored media, nothing is available by independent analyst or international media.
I am not saying that Chinese growth is false, but I am saying, it is dependent on others, and it is suspicious and may be manipulated.
We have all read about Chinese defense capabilities, but how? In past 5 decades China has not gone for a single war, all we have seen is show of power by China on Chinese day parades. Should we really conclude by looking at these show that China is powerful? In my view Chinese power is hidden, it may be many times more than what is visible or just a show off. No one know how capable Chinese defense is. I understand that China has created a hype of its defense only to create artificial fear among the neighbors like India.
We have been reading about war fear between China and India. There were some reports from some independent analysts that these fears are created by United States so that India go ahead and by more weapons and benefit shrinking United States economy. It was also mentioned that Indian media is helping US arms dealers in the same.
Now let us talk about Indian defense capabilities. You have mentioned about Agni and Prithvi, of course they are pride of India, but they are not the only ones that are protecting India. India is equipped with many other defense weapons such AAD, S-300PMU-2, Akaash, SA-5.6.8, 13. 12, INS-Virat, Tajas, Dhruv, and many more...
China has very large population and strict population control policies that is why they have large armed forces. In-spite of those regulations, If China has largest army in the world, India has second largest army in the world, if China has 3rd largest air force in the world, India has 4th largest air force in the world.
Chinese armed forces are larger than India, and so is the country, however, India is not Tibet and India is not India that was in 1962. I don't know in the war who will have the upper hand but for sure, in the unfortunate event of war, none can claim ultimate victory.
When two powers of this intensity fight, the only result is destruction, neither India nor China wants that, but if that comes our way, surely India is not a peace of cake for China.
United States support in event of war between India and China? That is an interesting question, US supports only and only where and when its own interest is involved. In 1962 even USSR refused to help India against China. It was only US that came forward to help India. And that was not that US has some brotherly love for India, but it was its own interest.
Same stands true today, US is under immense pressure from China due to debts, but US is also under pressure from its citizen to step up aggressive against China. So you never know what would US do? Bowing to China would be politically suicidal for any president in United States. So United States would make its own decision, depending on the situations, but we cannot decide our policies and defense based on United States and expectation of US help.
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I would like to differ with Mudhukar ji on one point, US President's current announcements against outsourcing are not India centric but that are generic, Indian media has projected it as India centric. It is true that Indian technology market will be impacted if that comes to reality, but that is also true that will never come to reality. That is another election stunt nothing more than that. US industries cannot find the same cost savings in US as they find in Asia and Latin America that is why they are compelled to outsource job and manufacturing industry irrespective if US gives them tax cuts or not. US President's announcements does not say that he is stopping tax breaks for companies outsourcing to India but to anywhere that includes China and Japan.
Indian has about the 3rd-4th largest and strongest army in the world. Pakistan is nowhere near the top 10, so whoever thinks Pakistan is on the top 10 of the biggest armies in the world, are idiots. Pakistan usually chooses a nuclear war as it had chosen before until USA prevented this. Ever since then, Pakistan had been developing nuclear bombs reasoning it as 'National Security' but the real reason was to throw them at India. India has USA, UK and the rest of the united nations on it's back. However, Pakistan has China, Japan & Russia behind it. So it's a hard question, but a logical and fair war without alliances being braught in or nuclear weapons would mean India would probably win.